Matsudaya Hotel

This was such a nice traditional hotel. The next hotel we’re staying at is modern and it just isn’t the same…so I’m already missing Matsudaya Hotel. From the rooms to the services to the amenities. Would love to come back again. Their hospitality was awe inspiring

If you would like to enjoy/experience typical high-end Japanese ryokan. You never regret choosing this hotel. The excellent dinner (I chose fugu-kaiseki) is offered at the individual dining rooms with great privacy. You enjoy quiet moment at their beautiful Japanese garden where many carps. People are very kind and attentive. I had a very impressive time there.

Staff were very helpful with new customs of a Japanese style hotel, despite the language barrier. Good food and a western style breakfast available. The garden is a wonderful oasis and the ones was very enjoyable.

Great Ryokan which has a very very nice garden and we had the garden view room which has our own onsen bath in the room. Great hospitality with great kaiseki meal served for us. Size was great for a family of four with its facilities. Highly recommended.

Incredible experience. If you enjoy Japanese history, 温泉 (hot spring), and ふぐ料理(Fugu fish), this is the place to stay To enjoy - 1. Study history of this place so you can appreciate this old building and beautiful Japanese garden. 2. Check-in early at 3pm and stay until 10am. This is a destination. 3. If you are visiting as a couple or family, go to 維新の湯(ishin no yu family bath) as soon as possible. You can’t reserve it, and you will lock the door from inside. This is the historic bath. the other family bath is not worth it. 4. There are 3 main baths. Men and women rotate at midnight. 岩の湯is the outdoor bath that overlooks the beautiful garden. Dont miss it by just going into 蔵の湯. You have to get through a couple more doors to get to the outdoor bath 5. If you are visiting in the winter from October to March, try ふぐ会席料理(Fugu kaiseki ryouri). Pricy but its definitely worth the experience of trying Fugu cooked in multiple ways. BUT - these incredible dishes are extremely traditional Japanese food. If you are type of person who enjoy the world’s various local cosines, you will not be disappointed. Dozens of dishes are all served in small quantities for you to try the variety of dishes 6. Depending on the room you choose, they will set up your dinner/breakfast in your room. Not many 旅館provides this service any more.

The Japanese garden is so beautiful!! We stayed in a room on ground floor facing the garden. I think is the best onsen ryoken that I visited so far. Dinner was served in our room with a very professional lady （sorry I forgot her name）but need to be careful when picking what to eat. As my travel companion does not eat fish, the meal that I picked was with quite a lot of fugu (河豚) dish.... which is a popular dish in the area. But he enjoyed the history part so much! Also a must to try "Ishinoyu" 維新の湯. It's also good location to go to the SL Yamaguchi train trip after checking out next morning. Will surely visit this ryoken again!

As i mentioned in the title, it is a good hotel with great onsen and good Japanese food. The staff were really helpful and were always ready to help.||||The gardens were beautiful and well worth the visit. There are two main onsens, which are very different, The outdoor onsen was lovely and felt really good, the other onsen was made out of stone and felt very mystic, however if you are claustrophobic, there are no windows and it is quite a closed space. There are also private onsens, and you don't need a reservation, if it is free - you can just use them.||||The hotel isn't excellent - the food was good - but not excellent, if it was a cheaper hotel - i would have no complaints, however, for the price - i think there are better! Another thing is, the hotel has a lot of history and in some places, ie in the rooms, shows it's it age.||||Nevertheless, these are only small things and the hotel is very good, with great onsens, however a little bit of extra maintenance, may give it 5 rating.

I strictly recommend to stay this Japanese style hotel not only Japanese but also foreigner. This hotel has great history.In the early days of Meiji era,some of historical people(ex,Takamori Saigo,Shinsaku Takasugi etc) use the place to discuss future of Japan.There is a reference room of historical famous people who stayed or used this hotel.You can feel Japanese nostalgia in the place.||||Also this hotel has first grade facilities and meals(diner and breakfirst).||Refer to following message.||||Room:Size is enough.|| Much of roos have only Futon the Japnese traditional bed instead of Western style bed.You may feel small.But some room have western style bed.So you can choice usual style.|| There is no non-smoking room.But you don’t need to afraid of smoking smell.The room's deodorization is perfect,you can enjoy scent of Japanese style room(Igusa and Hinoki ,material woods and glasses of the room) .||||Bath and restroom:Bath and restroom are not same room.Restroom has toilet seat with bidet function and are cleaness. And there is a Hinoki batf(Bath-tab is made of Hinoki wood,you can feel wood’s smell).||||Food:You can take Japanese traditional dinner and breakfirst if you choice include dinner and breakfirst plan.||I recommend to try tiger puffer (Tra-Fugu in Japanese) course if you can eat fish.Becase,tiger puffer is a speciality food in this region.||||Tips:There is a weak point that you don’t use wifi in room.You can use it in only around hotel‘s front desk.