Luxury ryokan in Yufuin and Beppu

YUFUIN TAMANOYU

由布院 玉の湯

A ryokan standing in about 10,000 square metres of coppice woodland in the Kawakami area of Yufuin. It began in 1953 as a retreat for a Zen temple and became an inn while keeping those buildings. There are 16 rooms, each with its own garden and a cypress indoor bath fed by the same spring as the public bath. The water is a simple hot spring, weakly alkaline at pH 8.2 and clear. The public bath has both an indoor and an open-air bath on the men’s and the women’s side, and Mount Yufu is in view from the open-air one. About three minutes by car from JR Yufuin Station, and within walking distance of Lake Kinrin and the Yunotsubo shopping street. One Key in the 2026 Michelin selection.

Yufuin Rikka

由布院 六花

A small inn in the Kawakami area of Yufuin, where the farmland still remains. It opened in September 2018 and has just six rooms, each a detached cottage with its own open-air bath fed continuously from the spring. It stands where Mount Yufu is in view, and guests are shown from the lobby through a courtyard to their cottage. Dinner is 18:00–21:00 and breakfast 8:00–9:30. It took the Jalan Award 2021 for inns of 50 rooms or fewer in Kyushu, in the overall, dinner, breakfast and service categories.

Kamenoi Bessou

亀の井別荘

A ryokan in the Kawakami district of Yufuin, next to Lake Kinrin, with detached buildings set in a wood of mixed trees. It began as a villa in 1921 and later became an inn. The centre of Yufuin is within walking distance. It holds two Michelin Keys in the 2026 selection, has its own dining room and tea house, and looks out on the landscape at the foot of Mount Yufu.

Yufuin Bettei ITSUKI

由布院別邸 樹

An inn of detached cottages on a country lane at Kawakami in Yufuin. There are 14 rooms in 13 buildings, every one of them detached, and each has its own hot spring bath — an indoor one and a half-open-air one. The cottages differ in character and are named after plants: Karin mixes Japanese and Western, Sazanka is a Western room in dark tones, Yamamomo runs a tatami room, a living room and a bedroom together. The lobby is finished in plaster and stone with layered beams and a fireplace, and there is a foot bath among the trees in the garden. Dinner is a creative kaiseki served in the dining room at 18:00 or 19:00, by reservation only. Five minutes on foot from the Yunotsubo shopping street.

ANA InterContinental Beppu Resort & Spa

ANAインターコンチネンタル別府リゾート&スパ

A resort at Kannawa in Beppu, about 20 minutes by car from Beppu Station and about 50 minutes from Oita Airport, with a transfer by reservation. It has a hot spring and a spa, in Kannawa, the steaming district of Beppu’s jigoku. It holds one Michelin Key in the 2026 selection, has several restaurants and looks out over Beppu Bay.

Sanso Warabino

由布院温泉 山荘 わらび野

A hot-spring inn in the Kawakita district of Yufuin Onsen, about five minutes by car from JR Yufuin Station and about three minutes from the Yufuin interchange; the airport bus from Oita takes about 55 minutes to Yufuin Station. It stands on high ground facing Mount Yufu, with a hot spring, away from the bustle of the centre.

Yufuin Luxury Villa Zakuro

Yufuin Luxury Villa -zakuro-

An inn of separate villas in the Kawaminami district of Yufuin Onsen, taking just three groups a day, about five minutes by car from JR Yufuin Station. Every room is a suite with an open-air hot-spring bath, designed for two. The villas stand apart, so your path rarely crosses other guests’. Yufuin is a hot-spring town in a basin in central Oita, facing Mount Yufu.

Beppu Showaen

別府温泉 べっぷ昭和園

A traditional Japanese ryokan in the Otobaru district of Beppu Onsen, founded in 1926, with eleven detached cottages on about 6,000 tsubo, each with its own hot-spring bath. It is about five minutes by car from Beppu Station and about 15 minutes from the Beppu interchange of the Higashi-Kyushu Expressway, with a transfer by reservation. Beppu is one of Japan’s great hot-spring towns, with eight onsen areas known as Beppu Hatto.

Yufuin Hanayoshi

由布院温泉 朝霧のみえる宿 ゆふいん花由

A hot-spring inn on high ground in the Kawakita district of Yufuin Onsen, about a minute by car from the Yufuin interchange and about seven minutes from JR Yufuin Station, with a free transfer by reservation. It faces Mount Yufu directly, and guests can use its alkaline water of pH 9.2. In the misty season you can look down on the fog-filled basin.

Oyado Kaikatei

おやど 開花亭

An inn of separate cottages in the Kawakami district of Yufuin Onsen, about five minutes by car from JR Yufuin Station. Each cottage has two rooms of eight and seven tatami mats and its own open-air bath. The buildings stand apart, so you rarely meet other guests. Yufuin is a hot-spring town in a basin in central Oita, with many small inns built around separate cottages.

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Yufuin Matousou

由布院 蔓蕩蒼 - Matousou -

An inn taking just three groups a day in the Nakagawa district of Yufuin, about three minutes on foot from JR Minami-Yufu Station and about five minutes by car from the Yufuin interchange. It is away from central Yufuin, surrounded by fields and mountains, and keeps its room count small. Minami-Yufu is one stop before Yufuin on the JR Kyudai line.

ENOWA YUFUIN

ENOWA YUFUIN

An auberge in the Maruo district of Yufuin, about five minutes by car from JR Yufuin Station, with rooms and dining spread across large grounds at the foot of Mount Yufu. Its cuisine is built around fermentation and farming, using vegetables from its own farm. It holds two Michelin Keys in the 2026 selection and keeps its room count small.

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Hatago Kanokura

旅籠Hatago 香乃蔵 （旧名：湯亭 香乃蔵）

An inn of separate cottages in the Kawanishi district of Yufuin Onsen, about ten minutes by car from JR Yufuin Station. Each cottage stands on its own with an open-air bath, and meals use seasonal ingredients. It is away from the centre of Yufuin, surrounded by farmland.

Nihon no Ashitaba

由布院温泉 おやど 二本の葦束

An inn of separate cottages in the Kawakita district of Yufuin Onsen, with 13 cottages on about 4,500 square metres, about seven minutes by car from JR Yufuin Station. All the baths, including the open-air ones, are used privately. The grounds are wooded, with the cottages spaced well apart.

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Sanso Murata

由布院温泉 山荘 無量塔

A hot-spring inn in the Kawakami district of Yufuin Onsen, about ten minutes by car from JR Yufuin Station and about 15 minutes from the Yufuin interchange of the Oita Expressway. It stands away from the centre of Yufuin, Lake Kinrin and Yunotsubo Kaido, on the lower slopes of Mount Yufu. Guests can use the hot spring.

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Ryotei Tanokura

由布院温泉 旅亭 田乃倉

A Japanese-style ryokan in the Kawakami district of Yufuin Onsen, about two minutes on foot from Lake Kinrin and about five minutes by taxi from JR Yufuin Station. Meals are served in your room and feature Oita wagyu, and guests can use the Yufuin water. The walking paths around Lake Kinrin are close.

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