Hidatei Hanaougi

Excellent Service starts from welcome drink. Modern Japanese-style hot spring hotel，new, clean and warm. We book the open air bath room. It’s great for hot spring any time. Hida beef dinner is awesome. Japanese style breakfast is very rich. We will definitely come back for next stay in Takayama

Really great food, the lady that looked after us from beginning to end was Karu, she was very efficent and helpfull and her english was really good.

Very nice onsen that is English-speaking friendly. We stayed at a room with private open air hot spring tub, so we didn't use the public ones. Our friends said it's great too. The meals were fine. The location is a bit off town center.

My husband and I spent two nights at Hidatei Hanaougi in mid-March, 2017. I would call this a "modern ryokan". If you are looking for a strictly authentic ryokan experience, this place will probably not fit your criteria. The meals, for example, are not served in-room, but in a private tatami room on the 2nd floor (each room is assigned its own dining room for the duration of the stay). But if you are looking for something in between traditional and modern comfort, I highly recommend Hidatei Hanaougi! After a lot of research, we decided on Hidatei Hanaougi because we really wanted our own bathroom, while most of the traditional, smaller ryokan we looked at had shared bathrooms (toilet/shower) between several rooms. We also wanted a room with a private onsen so that we could share the soaking experience together and not have to go to the separate men/women onsen. Of course, in a room with private onsen, you have the option of doing either! The kaiseki meals were beautiful, varied, and left us very full. The main course for dinner both evenings involved the famous Hida beef (which was indeed delicious). It happened to be yakiniku the first night, and shabu shabu the second. Going into our stay, we were expecting that we would want to take advantage of the late-night ramen bar downstairs, but we ended up being too full from our dinner! Wonderful hospitality from every employee we encountered, especially from our assigned host, Hiroko, who was with us for the duration of our stay

From the moment I stepped down fm the free hotel shuttle bus I felt the warm welcome from the hotel staff who were waiting dutifully outside on the entrance depsite the freezing cold temp. While checked in I were served with mint tea with biscuit by 2 very nice ladies in kimono who also walked me thro' the hotel facilities and made me understand well evyerthing I need to know for my stay (in good english) . The room I booked was with a private hotspring tub on the higher floor, which was extremely well decorated with tasteful and high qlty funitures and well stuffed with snacks and japanese teas (for free). The japanese futon was so comfortable I slept thro my night peacefully. However the real delights were the dinner and breakfast, which included so many courses all with exceptionally good qlty local foods and I was being served by a very sweet japanese lady with good knowlege into the local food and cultures. The public onsen was very very good, the semi-outside onsen for foot bath was another delight. All in all my stay was worth every penny I spent and for sure I will stay again in here if ever I will visit Takayama again.

hotel was very nice. staff was very kind and fluent in english. Nice dinner Kaiseki and breakfast. A bit far from the downtown, but it was close to supermarket for shopping Very nice onsen facilities, especially open air bath Good to stay!

This is a traditional Ryokan. Dinner is spectacular - if blowfish jelly doesn't scare you. Our room (a suite, really) was enormous for Japan and the service (in a kimono) was great. Also has a very nice onsen spa. The only downside is the location in a residential and light industrial area. Not so picturesque for a walk, although the point really is to soak in the hot spring. They do have frequent shuttles to take you to and from scenic downtown Takayama though.

We had an absolutely lovely time at this ryokan from the moment we got there and were given a welcome drink and sweet and our yukatas. The baths were beautiful and the service was outstanding. Most of the staff know enough english that you can easily get by if you don't know much Japanese. The dinner was excellent as well, and if you are still hungry later, try the ramen shop!

We stayed here one night during our two week trip to Japan and was definitely a highlight. Service is beyond amazing, ryokan is super clean, and dinner and breakfast are an experience you can't miss.

This traditional Japanese ryokan place was amazing. We loved the food. The room we had was enormous (more like 2 rooms with ensuite bathroom so perfect for our family of 5). The food was served in a private dining room upstairs and catered to our kids as well. The hot baths were wonderful. The photos on the website don't do the place justice. It is 5 star and then some!