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Hakone

FUFU Hakone

ふふ　箱根

Katsushika Hokusai, “Kajikazawa in Kai Province (Kōshū Kajikazawa), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)” — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

FUFU Hakone

From $280 (estimate) · Last verified August 2026

A mountain resort in Gora, above the Hakone valley. All 39 rooms are suites, 50 to 120 sq m, sleeping two or four, and every one has a stone-built hot spring bath with a window that opens onto the ridgeline.

Two springs are in play. The room baths run on clear Gora water, a sodium chloride spring (alkaline, hypotonic, hot). The communal bath, on the fifth floor of the Keyaki-no-Mi wing, is fed from Owakudani: an acidic sodium-calcium chloride-sulphate spring the hotel calls milky white. It is open 6-11am and 3pm to midnight, towels are kept there, and day visitors are not taken.

Dinner and breakfast are both served in Yamanoe, the second-floor restaurant, never in the rooms. The Japanese menu is prix fixe and partly chosen at the table; the August list ran a soup course, sashimi, and three small plates picked from a dozen or more. The alternative is Ishizue, the teppanyaki counter inside the same restaurant, seating at 6pm and 8.30pm. There is no lunch; room service runs 6-9pm.

Check-in is 3pm, check-out 11am. Gora station is about five minutes away by car and the hotel will collect you if you arrange it when booking; parking is free. Infants may stay, though children not yet out of nappies cannot use the communal bath and the teppanyaki counter is closed to under-tens. The spa is closed to under-16s. Pets cannot stay.

Why we chose it

The point is two different waters in one stay: the acidic Owakudani spring the hotel calls milky white in the fifth-floor communal bath, and the clear Gora spring in your own room. All 39 rooms have that bath, so the pairing does not depend on which room type you book. We also like how plainly the house states its limits - no room dining, no day visitors, no dogs, no under-tens at the teppanyaki counter.

What it has

  • Room with private hot spring bath
  • Kaiseki dinner

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