Hot-spring stays and dining from Hakone to Odawara
The Destination Brief
Explore Hakone & Odawara Area through its linked communities: Hakone, and Odawara. This regional destination brings together restaurants, bars, hotels, and other places across the area.
Awards in Hakone & Odawara Area
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Hakone & Odawara Area
Selected entries from the current guide for Hakone & Odawara Area.
Hakone, Japan
Amazake Chaya places Hakone’s old-road refreshment culture in sharp focus: Japanese sweets, amazake, kakigori, and a tatami-room format rather than resort dining gloss. Its Tabelog 100 selection for Japanese traditional sweets and sweets cafe in East Japan gives the stop a credible reason to matter beyond convenience, especially for travelers reading Hakone through local ingredients and mountain-road rituals.
Hakone, Japan
Cha no Chimoto places Hakone-Yumoto’s wagashi culture in a compact tea-room setting attached to a long-running Chimoto sweets shop. Its Tabelog 100 selection for Japanese traditional sweets and sweets cafés in EAST 2023 gives the stop more weight than a casual station-area pause, especially for travelers reading Hakone through tea, omiyage, and regional confectionery rather than only hot springs.
Hakone, Japan
Chimoto Ekimae doori ten belongs to Hakone Yumoto’s wagashi rhythm: sweets bought for the train, for ryokan rooms, and for gifts that say where the trip has been. Its Tabelog 100 selection for Japanese traditional sweets and sweets cafe in EAST Japan places it above the ordinary station-street souvenir stop, while the format remains casual, practical, and rooted in daily confectionery craft.
Odawara, Japan
Ichiyajo Yoroizuka Farm brings Odawara’s fruit-growing hinterland into the sweets conversation, pairing patisserie, bread, and bistro formats in a hill-set farm restaurant above Hayakawa. Its Tabelog Sweets EAST 100 selections in 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2023 put it in a serious regional tier, but the stronger point is place: this is pastry read through Kanagawa produce and a day-trip rhythm rather than city-center formality.
Odawara, Japan
Il Mare puts Odawara’s coastal larder into an Italian frame, with fish and local vegetables carrying the argument rather than imported luxury cues. Its Tabelog Italian EAST “Tabelog 100” selections in 2021, 2023, and 2025 place it in a serious regional set, while the Hayakawa setting keeps the focus close to the market and the water.
Hakone, Japan
Kikukawa Shoten gives Hakone Yumoto’s sweets culture a compact, take-away form: traditional wagashi, taiyaki, obanyaki, and Hakone manju in a station-area setting built for travelers moving between rail platforms, ryokan check-ins, and onsen streets. Its Tabelog 100 selection for Japanese traditional sweets and sweets cafes in East Japan places it in a serious regional conversation rather than a casual snack stop.
Odawara, Japan
Menan Chitose brings Odawara into Kanagawa’s serious ramen conversation through a compact counter-led format and a focus on ramen and tantan-men. Selection for Tabelog’s Ramen Kanagawa 100 in 2024 and 2025 gives it a clear signal for travelers weighing a noodle stop against Odawara’s seafood, pastry, and destination dining options.
Odawara, Japan
Moriya Sei Pan Ten places Odawara’s everyday bread culture in sharp focus: a take-out bakery near the station, selected for Tabelog Bread EAST “Tabelog 100” in 2020 and 2022. The appeal is not ceremony but turnover, local routine, and a low-price format that makes it useful before a train, a castle walk, or a wider day of eating around Kanagawa.
Hakone, Japan
PICOT places Hakone’s hotel-bakery tradition in a compact, practical format: bread and cake from the Fujiya Hotel setting, with takeout at the center and a small counter for eating in. Its Tabelog Bread EAST “Tabelog 100” selections in 2020 and 2022 make it a useful stop for travelers reading Hakone through food rather than scenery alone.
Hakone, Japan
sagamiya sits in Hakone-Yumoto’s sweet-shop circuit, where station-side omiyage culture overlaps with Western-style cakes and Japanese confections. Its Tabelog 100 Sweets EAST 2023 selection and take-out format make it a useful read on how Hakone turns local travel rituals into portable food, rather than a long sit-down dessert stop.
Hakone, Japan
Hotel dining in Hakone often splits between ryokan ritual and resort polish; Suiyo Ekushibu hakone rikyuu belongs to the latter camp, with Chinese cuisine inside XIV Hakone Rikyu in Miyanoshita. Its Tabelog Chinese EAST “Tabelog 100” selections in 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2026 place it in a tighter regional conversation than the usual onsen-town dinner option.
Hakone, Japan
Sumibi Teppan Yaki Toki brings Hakone’s resort dining into the disciplined theatre of Japanese teppanyaki, with charcoal-grill and iron-plate counters inside the Hakone Rikyū complex. Its selection for Tabelog 100 Steak / Teppanyaki EAST 2025 places it in a serious regional bracket rather than the casual hotel-restaurant category.
Hakone, Japan
Takeyabu Hakone ten brings Hakone’s mountain-resort tempo to soba: quiet pacing, a compact seated room, and a reputation strong enough for selection in Tabelog’s Soba EAST 100 in 2025. It suits travelers who want a measured Japanese lunch rather than a hotel dining production, with soba as the point of focus and the surrounding Motohakone setting doing part of the work.
Hakone, Japan
The Fujiya occupies a position in Hakone that few properties can claim: a century-old address in Miyanoshita that helped establish the region's identity as a resort destination for both domestic travellers and international guests. Situated along the old Tokaido route corridor, it sits inside the broader tradition of Japanese hot-spring hospitality while drawing comparisons to ryokan-adjacent Western-style hotels that defined the Meiji-era tourism circuit.
Hakone, Japan
Hakone’s auberge dining culture rewards restaurants that treat the mountains as more than scenery. THE HIRAMATSU HOTELS&RESORTS Sengokuhara brings Italian cooking into that context, with a 12-seat hotel-restaurant format, sommelier service, private rooms, and Tabelog Italian EAST 100 selections in 2023 and 2025.
Odawara, Japan
Uirou places Odawara’s wagashi culture in practical focus: rice-flour sweets, yokan, and a take-out format tied to a long local confectionery tradition rather than restaurant theatre. Its Tabelog 100 selection for Japanese traditional sweets and sweets cafes in East Japan in 2023 gives it credible standing for travellers reading Odawara through craft food rather than full-service dining.
Odawara, Japan
Odawara’s sweet-shop culture rewards precision over spectacle: small portions, local gifting habits, and a station-town rhythm shaped by travelers moving between Tokyo, Hakone, and the coast. Uirou Ekimae chouzai yakkyoku sits in that tradition with Japanese sweets and kissa service, backed by a Tabelog 100 selection for Japanese traditional sweets and sweets cafés in East Japan in 2023.
Odawara, Japan
メシモ occupies a second-floor space in Sakaecho, one of Odawara's quieter commercial blocks, within walking distance of the castle district. The venue's address and name place it in a city better known as a transit stop than a dining destination, which is precisely what makes it worth tracking. For the full picture on Odawara's emerging restaurant scene, see our full Odawara restaurants guide.
Hakone, Japan
Gora's Elevation, Grounded in What the Region Grows The road into Gora climbs steadily from Hakone-Yumoto, the valley air cooling as cedar and bamboo close in along the roadsides. By the time you reach the upper reaches of this mountain resort...
Hakone, Japan
Hakone Ginyu pairs seasonal kaiseki ryokan dining with panoramic mountain, garden, and waterfront views, plus sake and craft cocktails for an extended dinner.
Hakone, Japan
A yakiniku specialist in Hakone's Yumoto district devoted to Kobe beef, one of Japan's most tightly regulated premium proteins. The grilling format places the guest in direct contact with the ingredient, with minimal mediation between the cattle's provenance and the table. For visitors exploring the Hakone dining scene, it occupies a distinct position in the area's restaurant range.
Hakone, Japan
At Saien in Hakone, Buddhist monks lead a morning breakfast ritual rooted in the shojin ryori tradition, where the meal itself is an act of meditation. The setting, deep in the mountains of the Ashigarashimo District, frames the experience as much as the food does. For travellers approaching Japanese monastic culture through the table, few settings in the Hakone area offer this kind of structured, ceremonial entry point.
Hakone & Odawara Area
Selected entries from the current guide for Hakone & Odawara Area.
Hakone, Japan
A former imperial family retreat in the heart of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, Gora Kadan has earned Michelin 3 Keys (2024) and 94.5 points on La Liste's 2026 hotel ranking. Forty-one rooms span tatami and semi-Western configurations, some with private open-air baths, and rates start from US$848 per night. The Hakone Tozan Line stops 400 metres from the entrance, putting it 85 minutes from central Tokyo by rail.
Hakone, Japan
A 39-room modern ryokan in Gora earning a Michelin Key (2024), Fufu Hakone pairs kaiseki dining with a dual-spring onsen programme, sulfate-rich waters in the public baths, chloride-rich springs piped to private in-room soaking tubs. Less than an hour from Tokyo by train, it sits at the sharper end of Hakone's luxury ryokan tier, with bookings advised well in advance.
Hakone, Japan
Among Hakone's onsen ryokan, Gora Karaku earns a Michelin One Key (2024) through a discipline that balances plush comfort with the structural restraint of traditional Japanese hospitality. Each of the 70 rooms includes a private onsen bath alongside access to the public bath complex, and the cuisine follows a strictly local and seasonal sourcing logic. It sits closer to Gora Kadan in format than to the larger resort properties in the region.
Hakone, Japan
A 20-room property in Hakone's Sengokuhara district that operates on the model of a French auberge rather than the ryokan tradition dominant across the region. Every room includes a spring-fed onsen bath, and the kitchen draws on European culinary traditions using locally sourced ingredients. The property earned a Michelin 1 Key in 2024, placing it within a select tier of recognised small-scale retreats in Japan.
Hakone, Japan
Nine private villas perched above the Hayakawa river valley in Hakone, ESPACIO The Hakone Geihinkan Rin-Poh-Ki-Ryu is a Leading Hotels of the World member where kumiko woodwork, lacquer, and centuries-old hot spring traditions converge in a nine-room property priced from $2,685 per night. The arrival alone, by cable car through forested hillsides, signals the deliberate remove from ordinary resort rhythms.
Hakone, Japan
Hakone Kowakien Tenyu, a MICHELIN Selected property for 2025, sits at Ninotaira in the heart of the Hakone volcanic zone, where the ryokan tradition of forest immersion and thermal bathing reaches one of its more considered expressions. The property draws on the Kowakien estate's deep roots in the area, positioning it within Hakone's upper tier of onsen accommodation alongside peers such as Gora Kadan and Hakone Retreat Villa 1/f.
Hakone, Japan
Hakone Retreat Villa 1/f occupies a quiet address in Sengokuhara, one of the Hakone region's more removed highland plateaus, and holds a place on the Michelin Selected Hotels 2025 list. The property sits within a broader tier of design-led, low-key retreats that position themselves against the area's larger resort operators, offering a format built around seclusion and deliberate restraint rather than amenity volume.
Hakone, Japan
A Michelin Selected property in Gora, Hakone's refined inland district, Hotel Indigo Hakone Gora positions the international brand's neighbourhood-story design philosophy within one of Japan's most storied onsen resort traditions. The hotel sits at the intersection of Western-brand familiarity and the region's deep thermal bathing culture, offering a calibrated entry point into Gora's tiered accommodation market.
Hakone, Japan
Sitting in the forested hills of Gora, the Hyatt Regency Hakone Resort and Spa occupies a position that places international hotel infrastructure alongside one of Japan's most visited onsen districts. Michelin Selected in 2025, the property draws guests who want Hakone's mountain-and-volcanic-spring character without relinquishing the service consistency of a major hotel brand.
Hakone, Japan
Set in the Ashinoyu area of Hakone, Matsuzakaya Honten carries a 2025 Michelin Selected distinction, placing it among a small tier of recognised traditional ryokan in one of Japan's most visited onsen regions. The property's address at the sulphurous heart of Ashinoyu signals a commitment to the older, mineral-heavy hot spring tradition rather than the manicured resort corridors that define much of contemporary Hakone.
Hakone, Japan
Situated in the Myojindai area of Hakone, nol hakone myojindai holds a MICHELIN Selected distinction for 2025, placing it within the curated tier of ryokan-style accommodation the guide recognises for quality across Japan's most competitive onsen destinations. The property sits at address 1488 Hakonemachi, within reach of Hakone's volcanic highland trails and the broader Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park corridor.
Hakone, Japan
Sengokubara COCON sits in the highland plateau of Sengokuhara, one of Hakone's quieter residential pockets, and carries a 2025 Michelin Selected distinction for accommodation. The property positions itself in the smaller, design-conscious tier of Hakone ryokan and boutique stays, where atmosphere and setting take precedence over scale. It suits travellers who arrive in the Fuji-Hakone region with rest and withdrawal from urban pace as the primary objective.
Hakone, Japan
KAI Sengokuhara sits in Hakone's Sengokuhara plateau, where mist-laced highland scenery frames one of the Hoshino Resorts group's onsen ryokan properties. The address places it at a remove from the more visited Gora corridor, positioning it within a quieter tier of Hakone accommodation. For travellers prioritising thermal bathing, kaiseki dining, and a measured pace over resort-scale facilities, this is a coherent choice.
Hakone, Japan
Nazuna Hakone Miyanoshita sits within the historic Miyanoshita quarter of Hakone, positioning itself among the region's smaller, design-conscious ryokan properties that prioritise spatial restraint over resort scale. The address places guests close to Miyanoshita's forested ridgelines and onsen heritage, a context that shapes the property's architectural and experiential logic. For travellers choosing between Hakone's larger portfolio of hot-spring retreats and its more intimate alternatives, Nazuna represents the quieter end of that spectrum.
Hakone, Japan
A traditional ryokan tea house in Hakone's Tonosawa district, Yama no Chaya occupies a position in Japan's onsen hospitality tradition where the quality of the overnight experience is measured by the room itself: the tatami, the bath, the silence between mountains. For travellers who read Hakone as a landscape of competing ryokan philosophies, this address offers a quieter register than the region's better-known resort properties.
Hakone & Odawara Area
Selected entries from the current guide for Hakone & Odawara Area.
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Hakone & Odawara Area
Selected entries from the current guide for Hakone & Odawara Area.
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