Atami Onsen Sakuraya Ryokan

A family-run 1949 inn five minutes from Atami Station where both meals come to your room and every in-room bath runs on straight hot-spring water — but the shared baths are small and recirculated, there's no sea view to speak of, and the building shows its age

Sakuraya has been run in Atami since 1949, and guests in 2025–2026 still describe being seen off at the door by the senior okami and the younger generation. It's a 21-room, three-building inn just below the Nakamise shopping street: the Tōzankaku wing faces the sea (upper floors glimpse Hatsushima), the Shihōkaku wing has keyaki-wood rooms. The draws are food and privacy. Dinner and breakfast are served in your room, course by course, with a choice of dancing-grilled abalone or kuroge wagyu, a beef stew simmered for a week, and Odawara rice; and every room's own bath is filled with 100% spring water from the inn's tap. Most recent evidence comes from booking-site reviews rather than blogs: Japanese guests rate it 4.8 across 523 reviews on one major site (dinner 5.0, service 4.9) and 4.37 across 706 on another (dinner 4.53, equipment 4.09). They praise huge portions, warm and chatty staff, roomy rooms and the free station pick-up. The catches are consistent: the two shared baths are small, recirculated and heated with no sea view; 'sea-view' rooms look past an apartment block; the building is old with steps inside rooms; there are no non-smoking rooms. 2026 complaints include a stranger walking into one guest's room while the door was left unlocked for dinner service, luggage no longer carried to rooms, long gaps between courses and one indifferent server. Two-meal stays run from about ¥32,000 per person, around ¥50,000 for a room with an open-air bath.