Where to stay in Shizuoka

Three kinds of nightWhere to stay in Shizuoka

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旅館・温泉宿

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

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A city hotelホテル

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

Per roomNear the station

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A guesthouse or minshuku民宿・ゲストハウス

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

Ask about cashRural areas

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Our first choice in Shizuoka is named below.

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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

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Our first choice hereThe one we would book

Nippondaira Hotel日本平ホテル — Nip-pon-dai-ra

This is the one to aim for in Shizuoka, and the building exists for one reason. It was rebuilt in 2012 with glass walls in the rooms, the restaurants and the lounges, on a hill that looks at Mt. Fuji across Suruga bay, with the pine beach and the port below. Eighty rooms. The top floor is a lounge, and at night the lights of the city and the harbour are directly beneath it.

This is the Shizuoka side of Fuji: the mountain with water in front of it. From the Yamanashi side you get the mountain reflected in a lake; from here you get it rising behind a bay and a pine beach. They are different pictures of the same mountain, and this is the one fewer visitors see.
Look early. The first two hours after sunrise are the clearest part of almost every day, and December to February is when the odds are best — cold, dry air and snow on the cone.
The top-floor lounge at night is worth an hour even if the mountain is hidden. The port below is working, and the lights move.
Tea grows on these slopes. Shizuoka produces more of Japan’s tea than anywhere else, and the rows of it are visible on the way up the hill.

Where: On the Nippondaira hill between Shizuoka city and Shimizu port, looking across Suruga bay. The pine beach of Miho no Matsubara is below the hill.
Address: 1500-2 Basou, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka
Telephone: 054-335-1131
Booking: Through the official site, or the booking services below

Worth knowing

Mt. Fuji can only be seen on days when the weather allows it. It generates its own weather, and it is hidden by its own cloud far more often than visitors expect — in summer it can be invisible for days. Come in winter if seeing it matters more than anything else, and look in the first hour after sunrise. If it is out, you will know at once. If it is not, the bay, the port lights and the tea are still there.

Checked 2026-08-17

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