UNZEN FUKUDAYA／YAMA TERRACE -BETTEI-

Booked one night onsen experience with Teppanyaki wagyu dinner and traditional Japanese breakfast in May and the experience was just simply wonderful. Fukudaya is a short walk from the small town center. The air was full of sulphur smell which is a pleasant reminder that you are in the middle of a volcano.||The Fukudaya is small enough to cater to your needs and yet big enough to offer you both indoor and outdoor hot springs experience. Dinner was great and the chef was masterfully exhibiting his skills at the table and the rightly seared wagyu literally melts in your mouth. The private breakfast experience was equally impressive. ||I highly recommend this for your onsen experience.

very mediocre for the price. food is nothing special. staff service levels not typical of usual Japanese Ryokan service and hospitality. cleaning left much to be desired with MANY leftover stray hairs in the tub. room AC is archaic and difficult to control. only good things are the spacious rooms and the individual reservation baths. water quality is also quite good. overall you can do much better at this price.

The free parking is behind the hotel . You can unload the luggage right in front of the hotel . |The hotel is a 10 min walk from the entrance of the Unzen Hell . |The room is huge with a sofa area and an elevated platform for the beds . Only one pillow is supplied though . It would be better if two pillows are supplied . Wifi is fast . |The onsens are in two different buildings .|The dinner is one of the best kaiseiki dinners we have ever eaten with A5 Nagasaki beef , cheese fondue , live abalone cooked in a small pot . Breakfast is Japanese style . |Stay here for the dinner.

Fukudaya is located about 10 minutes walk from the main onsen street. But the Tourists Information Center is right across the road. It is a historical building with an addition of new wing building.||The reception staff speak a little English which is already very helpful. The only one elevator is a bit small and guests may have to wait for a while. Our room is big by Japanese standard, though a bit dated. The thermostat only provides on and off option, you can not set the temperature, so you have to turn on and off to make the room more comfortable.||The hotel provides a free welcome drink at the bar on the top floor of the new wing. The bar equipped with a juke box providing old songs. The outdoor public onsen is located on the same floor, with a nice view of surrounding landscape. The only restaurant is also located in the new wing. Both the dinner and breakfast is very nice, especially the abalone, the mini fondue and the sushi.||The family onsen is a really exceptional place where the onsen water has a strong sulphuric smell. So one can deduce that the onsen water is real. In fact in Unzen you can see hot spring and smoke nearly everywhere.

Such a lovely hotel with a variety of options for bathing and high quality onsen water. The water is sulphuric and looks milky. You can also book a private onsen easily by asking at the desk. Everything is clean and towels are readily available. You will be so su-be su-be! The rooms are huge! A fresh coffee machine is there with English translation for the instructions. The beds are comfortable. They provide everything you need. Kaiseki is well presented, fresh and delicious. Cooking the live abalone was a unique experience that I do not want to repeat. Nevertheless, all the other food was perfect. We especially enjoyed the theatricality of the sashimi, presented on dry ice. Local ingredients are centre-stage but there's an element of fusion in the meal (e.g cheese fondue). All dining is in private rooms apart from the teppanyaki option.

I stay with Fukudaya alone but I enjoyed my stay so much. Firstly, the food is wonderful, they really did a art of cooking with quality food. Private onsen is also the highlight, room is in japanese style with modern design, Staffs are all friendly and willing to help although I don't speak good Japanese. Will definitely stay here again

Great Ryokan to spend time in Unzen. The service is friendly and attentive. The rooms are a bit dated but well maintained. The hotels layout is a bit confusing, but they work hard to help you not get lost. The food is amazing and deserves 6 stars. Don't miss on eating here during your stay. For the onsen, there are 2 great outdoor baths and 2 indoor baths. At my time of stay it wasn't crowded and I had the bath for myself most of the time.

Based on the traveler photos, and generally positive reviews, my wife and I booked a non-smoking room for one night in mid-April that included dinner and breakfast. Unzen has a lot going for it: the jigoku are interesting, the national park has good hiking, the view if you take the cable car from Mt. Nitta is great, and it's an easy drive to Shimabara to take the ferry over to Kumamoto. My recommendation would be to confirm that your room is reserved in the new building. Our room on the top floor of the old building was dated and really in a quite poor, worn condition. Cooling the room in April was a challenge, and I can't imagine what it would be like in the summer months. The room next door was a smoking room, and the air from that room vented into our room. The staff were all quite nice. The onsen/rotemburo were OK, but nothing special based on the many other baths we've experienced in Japan (on this month-long trip or on previous long vacations in Japan). The dinner and breakfast were also just average. So our stay was a disappointment, especially so given that the room price with full board wasn't inexpensive. ||||To sum up, I'd only book this hotel if nothing else was available in Unzen, and then confirm the room was in the new wing.