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Where to stay & onsen

We recommend one night at a hot-spring inn.

Three kinds of nightWhere to stay in Toyama

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 Toyama 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

Mikurigaike Onsen

This is the highest natural hot spring in Japan, at 2,410 metres. It stands beside a crater pond on the Alpine Route.

  • 2,410 metres. No hot spring in Japan is higher.
  • Inside the Alpine Route. The snow walls and the plateau walks start at the door.
  • Milky sulphur water, with the peaks through the window.
Where
Murodo, on the Alpine Route — a few minutes on foot from the bus terminal
Booking
Through the official site, or the booking services below
Worth knowing

Hotel Tateyama at the same terminal ends its accommodation business on 31 August 2026. This is the replacement. The route closes for winter.

Checked 2026-08-18

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Photo: Amaharashi Coast by くろふね (CC BY 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
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