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We recommend one night at a hot-spring inn.

Three kinds of nightWhere to stay in Kanagawa

The choice is really about what kind of night you want. A hot-spring inn feeds you twice and stops you moving. A city hotel is the right answer if you are arriving late or leaving early.

A ryokan or hot-spring inn

Dinner and breakfast brought to you, a bath, and floor bedding laid out while you eat. The price is per person and includes both meals.

Includes 2 meals Book ahead

A city hotel

Clean, small, reliable and priced per room. Right for early trains, late arrivals and anyone travelling with a large suitcase.

Per roomNear the station

A guesthouse or minshuku

Family-run, cheaper, and often the only option in the countryside.

Ask about cashRural areas

Our first choice in Kanagawa is named below.

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BookingSix things worth asking before you pay

Ask about these

Meals
Whether dinner and breakfast are included, and what time dinner is served. Inns often serve at a fixed time and will not wait
Tattoos
Ask whether the bath admits them, and ask about a private bath
Private bath
Kashikiri. Many inns have one, and it removes the question of bathing with strangers entirely
Payment
Card or cash. Rural inns are often cash only
Arrival time
Tell them. Inns lock up earlier than hotels
Luggage
They will hold it before check-in and after check-out. Just ask

What a night at an inn is like

Shoes
Off at the entrance. Slippers inside; nothing on the straw matting
The robe
A cotton yukata is provided and is worn to dinner and to the bath. Left side over right
Dinner
Many small dishes, often in your room or a dining room at a set time
Bedding
Laid out on the floor, usually while you are eating
Bathing
Before dinner and again before bed is normal here
Breakfast
Rice, fish, egg, pickles. Ask the night before if you need it early

Our first choice hereThe one we would book

APA Hotel & Resort Yokohama Bay Tower

This is the one to aim for in Kanagawa if you want a city night rather than an inn. It is a 35-storey tower with 2,311 rooms — among the largest hotels in Japan — on the Yokohama waterfront, with a large bath house on an upper floor looking out over the harbour.

  • The bath is the reason to choose this over an ordinary city hotel. There is a large indoor bath and an open-air bath, and the view from them is the harbour and the towers of Minatomirai.
  • 2,311 rooms means it is almost never full. If your plans move, or if you are deciding late, this is the room you can still get in Yokohama on a Saturday.
  • Rooms are priced per room, not per person, which makes it far cheaper for two or three people than an inn that charges each guest with meals.
  • Yokohama is twenty-five to thirty minutes from central Tokyo, so this also works as a base for Tokyo at a lower price — with a bath and a sea view that central Tokyo hotels rarely have.
Where
Yokohama waterfront — about three minutes on foot from Bashamichi station (exit 4) on the Minatomirai line
Address
Kita-nakadori, Naka-ku, Yokohama
Telephone
0570-055-111
This number begins 0570. Numbers like this are a Japanese domestic service and often cannot be dialled from a foreign mobile or from outside Japan. If it does not connect, book through the official site instead, or ask your hotel or your hotel front desk in Japan to place the call for you.
Booking
Through the official site, or the booking services below
Worth knowing

It is very large. Allow time to get from your room to the door, and expect a queue at check-out on a Sunday morning. The bath is busiest between 20:00 and 22:00 — go before dinner or after eleven and you may have it nearly to yourself.

Checked 2026-08-17

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