Ikaho|Mid-Range
Moriaki Ryokan
森秋旅館
A Meiji-era Ikaho ryokan from 1868 pouring the town's gold spring, with one of the area's deepest guest-review histories.
English OKOnsenPrivate Onsen
from $203 / per night · per person
8.8/10 (4,925)Destination
Set on the slopes of Mt. Haruna in Gunma, Ikaho is one of Japan's most storied hot-spring towns, built around a 365-step stone stairway (ishidan) lined with inns, bathhouses and shops. Its rare iron-gold "Kogan no Yu" spring — which oxidizes to a warm brown — has drawn travelers for over 400 years, alongside a clearer "Hakugin no Yu" silver spring. It's about two hours from Tokyo, making it a classic ryokan escape.
Looking for hotels in Ikaho? Compare 13 traditional ryokans and modern onsen hotels — private baths, English-speaking staff, vegetarian kaiseki, and tattoo-friendly options all filterable in one place.
See our editors' top picks for Ikaho13 ryokans in Ikaho
森秋旅館
A Meiji-era Ikaho ryokan from 1868 pouring the town's gold spring, with one of the area's deepest guest-review histories.
from $203 / per night · per person
8.8/10 (4,925)ホテル木暮
A large four-star onsen hotel holding a quarter of Ikaho's gold-spring output, with one of North Kanto's biggest bathhouses.
from $365 / per night · per person
9.6/10 (2,216)石坂旅館
A friendly, well-reviewed inn a minute from the stone stairway, pouring free-flowing gold-spring water.
from $67 / per night · per person
8.2/10 (1,515)塚越屋七兵衛
An 1863 inn holding one of just eight gold-spring water rights in Ikaho, known for its free-flowing source baths.
千明仁泉亭
Ikaho's oldest inn, founded 1502, pouring 100% free-flowing gold-spring water through private baths that are free to reserve.
from $210 / per night · per person
9.2/10 (507)岸権旅館
A 450-year-old inn on Ikaho's stone stairway, drawing the rare gold "Kogan no Yu" spring across thirteen flow-through baths.
from $200 / per night · per person
8.6/10 (318)香雲館
A ten-room luxury annex where every individually themed room has its own cypress indoor bath and private open-air bath.
from $270 / per night · per person
9/10 (247)金太夫
A value-focused Ikaho inn with seven bathing options, including six free private baths and a rooftop rotenburo.
お宿玉樹
A 26-room ryokan at the foot of the stone stairway drawing both of Ikaho's springs, with open-air-bath rooms.
from $293 / per night · per person
8.9/10 (121)奥伊香保 旅邸 諧暢楼
An adults-only luxury retreat in Oku-Ikaho with eight roughly 100-square-metre suites, each with a private garden open-air bath.
from $526 / per night · per person
9.2/10 (103)景風流の宿 かのうや
A 120-year-old inn reached by its own private cable car up a wooded gorge, with silver-spring baths.
from $108 / per night · per person
8.8/10 (30)福一
A 430-year-old inn at the top of the stone steps, one of the few in Ikaho with both the gold and silver springs.
from $110 / per night · per person
8.4/10 (17)横手館
A Taisho-era ryokan whose 1920 four-story all-cypress building is one of Ikaho's most striking pieces of architecture.
from $136 / per night · per person
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