Hakone Yuryo

What to expect

Hakone Yuryo is a day-use hot spring on the wooded slope above the Haya River at Tonosawa, just up the valley from Hakone-Yumoto Station. Nobody stays the night. You come for a few hours, bathe, eat and leave. It is run by Odakyu Resorts, the Odakyu group company that also runs resort hotels elsewhere in Hakone.

The buildings are dark-roofed and low, styled like an old farmhouse village. The operator says the beams inside reuse timber from a Kobe farmhouse about a century old, and the rooms are furnished with Meiji and Taisho era pieces. It feels more like a large country ryokan than a city bathhouse.

There are two ways to bathe here, and they are priced very differently. The public baths are a normal Japanese onsen with separate men’s and women’s sides. The private open-air rooms, called Hanare Yuya Kaden, are rented by the room for couples, families or friends who want to bathe together or alone.

The water comes from Yuryo’s own source on the property. It is an alkaline simple spring, pH 8.9, which the operator markets as a skin-smoothing bath. The 2021 analysis puts the source at 99.5°F37.5°C with a flow of 106.3 litres a minute; the bath temperatures are not published. The Rurubu guide notes the baths are not free-flowing (kakenagashi), so expect treated, recirculated water.

The baths

Public baths (Honden Yurakuan, Ōyu): Each side has an indoor bath with big windows onto the trees, and an outdoor area with a rock bath, a Shigaraki ceramic pot bath and a “view bath” set at the outer edge of the terrace. Both sides also have a sauna, Netsu no Muro, with scheduled löyly (water on hot stones) sessions, and a cold plunge filled with soft stream water.

Private open-air rooms (Hanare Yuya Kaden): 19 rooms in three sizes, each with a tatami rest room with a table and air conditioning next to its own outdoor tub.

• Ichi-no-maki: 7 rooms, up to 2 people, about 18 m².
• Ni-no-maki: 8 rooms, up to 4 people, about 24 m². The room called Icho is step-free.
• San-no-maki: 4 rooms, up to 4 people, about 32 m². The Yamaboshi room has a deck looking down on the Hakone Tozan Railway.

Tubs vary from cut stone and rock to ceramic and an iron cauldron.

Prices and booking

Public baths (2026): adults (junior high and up) ¥1,700-1,800 on weekdays and ¥2,000-2,200 on weekends and holidays; primary school children ¥1,000. Children younger than primary school age are not allowed in the public baths. The price includes the indoor and outdoor baths and the sauna. There is no towel rental: bring your own or buy a bath towel (¥550) or face towel (¥300). A yukata to wear between baths and the restaurant rents for ¥300.

Private rooms, per room for 2 hours:

• Ichi-no-maki: ¥10,400 weekdays, ¥11,400 weekends and holidays, extra 30 minutes ¥2,600 / ¥2,850.
• Ni-no-maki: ¥12,400 / ¥13,400, extra 30 minutes ¥3,100 / ¥3,350.
• San-no-maki: ¥14,400 / ¥15,400, extra 30 minutes ¥3,600 / ¥3,850.

Weekend rates also apply during Golden Week, August 8-16 and the New Year period (December 26 to January 3). Prices include consumption tax and bathing tax. Towels and amenities are included; a yukata is included in San-no-maki and costs ¥100 in the smaller rooms. Adding the public baths to a private booking costs ¥1,000 per adult on weekdays, ¥1,300 on weekends and holidays, and ¥600 per child.

Book private rooms online through TableCheck from one month ahead until 15:00 the day before. Online booking for the private rooms opened on July 17, 2026. For changes after the cut-off, call 0460-85-8411.

Hours: public baths 10:00-20:00 on weekdays and 10:00-21:00 on weekends and holidays, last entry an hour before closing. Private rooms keep the same opening and closing times, with last entry two hours before closing. Yuryo is open every day of the year but closes now and then for maintenance.

Getting there

The address is 4 Tonosawa, Hakone. Most people arrive by train: the Odakyu Romancecar from Shinjuku to Hakone-Yumoto Station, then Yuryo’s free shuttle bus, which runs daily about every 10 to 15 minutes and takes about 3 minutes. If you drive, it is about 4 km (2.5 miles), roughly 10 minutes, from Hakoneguchi IC via Route 1, and there are 92 free parking spaces, which can fill on busy days. The Hakone Tozan Railway runs right below the property, and you can see the trains from some of the private rooms.

When to go

Weekday mornings are the calmest and cheapest. Weekends, Golden Week, mid-August and the New Year period cost more and are the hardest times to get a private room, so book those as soon as the one-month window opens. Autumn colour and cold winter days make the outdoor baths most pleasant, and the location next to the station makes Yuryo an easy last stop before a train back to Tokyo.

Rules and etiquette

• Tattoos: allowed in the public baths since April 1, 2025.
• Bathing: wash and rinse at the taps before you get in, keep your towel out of the water, and no swimsuits in the public baths.
• Children: primary school age and up in the public baths. Younger children use the private rooms. Nobody in diapers can bathe. Children 7 and over cannot use mixed-sex baths.
• Pets: not allowed inside, except certified guide, hearing and service dogs. Kennel Hakone, nearby, boards dogs.
• Wheelchairs: the public baths are accessible only as far as the entrance; the Icho private room is step-free.

Where to stay nearby

Yuryo has no rooms, so stay in Hakone-Yumoto, three minutes away by shuttle, which has the biggest cluster of ryokan and hotels in Hakone. If you are going higher into Hakone, Hakone Kowakien Yunessun is about 20 minutes uphill by bus and has hotels next door.

Safety notes

• Heat and sauna: alternating sauna, hot baths and the cold plunge is hard on the heart. Drink water, keep sessions short, and skip the plunge if you have heart or blood pressure problems.
• Wet stone: outdoor paths and bath edges are slippery, especially in rain or frost.
• Alcohol: do not bathe after drinking at the restaurant.