Senkei

IMPORTANT: If the mixed reviews for this ryokan confuse you: Your experience will vary EXTREMELY depending on your chosen room plan, as there are multiple hotels listed here together. Incredible food! (Not for picky eaters though) Incredible service! Close to the station! (and shuttle service available) Onsen! Huge room!

Very traditional Japanese style, love the peace and quietness. The outdoor hotspring is really lovely and cute! Male guests need to go after 21.00 but i think that's fine. Staff are friendly but that's almost everywhere in Japan, hahaha.

Loved everything about Hotel Senkei in Hakone - we booked the Japanese room ryokan with tatami mats & futon & we felt like we were transported back to the 70s-80s of Japan. Excellent hospitality, super friendly helpful staff, we loved both the rooftop & indoor onsen facilities. Location was great - just 10-15min walk from Hakone station or the hotel provides a shuttle. We felt super relaxed & comfortable at Hotel Senkei - thank you!

We were looking for an authentic ryokan experience, especially food and onsen baths, and Senkei gave us more than we could imagine. We had two breakfasts and two dinners, kaiseki style, each meal served in our rooms, and presented by our server/host, Taiko, who described each dish. Each dish was its own work of art, on gorgeous dishware. We have a fairly experienced and adventurous palate for Japanese traditional food so appreciated the variety, with many items never before tasted. It was very plentiful, with soup, array of pickled items, seafood, hotpot dish, and more. We felt like we were in heaven savoring each dish in a beautiful tatami room with a view of the mountains and large cherry blossom tree in front of the hotel. The room itself was a unique traditional tatami suite called Youra, one of several special suites in the ryokan. It had a dining area with both tatami style table as well as a western style dining set, and separate alcove with futon on a platform, and bath area with deep bathtub with onsen hot water, and bidet and spacious vanity counter. The path to the suite is quite awesome, not a usual hotel structure, but built into a mountainside with waterfalls and gardens along the path. However an elevator is available also. The two public onsen, one an open airrooftop retreat, and another on the ground floor were both incredibly soothing and very special. We feel so lucky to have experienced the Hotel Senkei ryokans! It was a total immersion in the ryokan culture - culinary, aesthetics, and kind hospitality of all the staff. Note that the Hotel Senkei has two other hotels in its group, a business hotel and another hotel complex, all under its Senkei name, and they are a different type of lodging, more a typical hotel vs ryokan. From our arrival to departure, everything felt perfect and we felt like VIPs and very cared for.

Spacious living space - it really was a full apartment suite (without a kitchen) rather than just a hotel room. Elaborate dinner and breakfast.