This is a really fantastic Ryokan. Very friendly and pleasant reception. You feel from the first moment at home. Very beautiful rooms, furnished with love. The meal is also fantastic and presented and served in a very lovingly way. Unfortunately we had time only to experience one onsen. But this was wunderful.

I stayed at this ryokan for one night before going back home after a week of business in the Tokyo area. For those who don't mind indicating their exact schedule ahead of time, this is an outstanding experience. I had a japanese style suite with a separate bedroom, reading room and my own onsen, all very well maintained and clean.... More

I must say it wasn't easy to get to the ryokan if you were to take the train to tonasawa station. Best way is cab from hakone-yumoto. Anyhow, the bridge crossing to the ryokan has an amazing view of the lake. Don't recommend walking to the ryokan. Best on cab as it brings you across to the ryoken's entrance up... More

Was recommended by a friend to take the plunge - it was the most expensive hotel stay I've had but it was worthwhile (at least till I get the credit card bill). Also, kids were chargeable at 70% (for my 9 yr old) and 50% (for my 4 yr old) of adult rates so it made the 1 night very... More

Atmosphere of relaxation and meditation... Rooms are clean and spacious, shared baths are big, nice... and were always deserted. But the best is of course your private bath with some very little glimpse of the sky, mostly of the trees in front of your room. The onsen water is crazy hot... But gives very soft skin :) Now, the food:... More

We had two rooms without own bathtub in the room and stayed one night with dinner and breakfast. Means not the most expansive rooms. We paid 130000 Yen around. They have several onsens which are devided by gender. Half day a bunch of onsens are for female, the other half day for men. Same the other bunch of onsen. There... More

I went there with my sister and my parents. We booked two rooms (the newest one called Asebi and another one). The staff did their best to speak english, even though I requested to switch to japanese as I can understand it quite well. I have been to many Ryokan and the food was the best ever, with very unexpected... More

The gracious hospitality that we received at Yama no Chaya was simply wonderful. All we had asked the receptionist to do before we left for our afternoon excursion was to call our previous ryokan in another prefecture to check if they had found a piece of jewelry that my father had left in his room.  When we returned in the afternoon,... More

I have concluded that as most Japanese ryokan website are set up in Japanese, these website are only registered on Google or Yahoo search engines in Japanese. Hence, most ryokans that do take in English speaking guests would have an English translation link posted on these Japanese sites. How wrong was i! I manage to find Yamanochaya precisely so, given... More