Intimate Inns That Take Guests Off the Beaten Path and Onto a Bike - AFAR
"A 10-room traditional ryokan in the hot-spring town of Yamanaka that foregrounds sensory comforts: cedar-scented soaking tubs, tatami floors, shoji-screened rooms, and a sun-dappled interior garden. The communal onsen draws water from nearby springs, and three rooms include private soaking tubs. Evenings feature multicourse kaiseki dinners built from hyperlocal ingredients—the organic rice comes from a farmer who uses ducks to control pests and coastal seaweed is hand-harvested—and guests return to tatami beds set out for them, with heated sheets on colder nights." - Jennifer Flowers
