Jozankei Hana Momiji

Shikanoyu's 77-room annex: a free bar and snack spread in the lobby that every reviewer mentions, three kaiseki grades, a 50-dish breakfast buffet and four big baths to roam — but only the top-floor rooms have their own onsen, the shared baths are recirculated, and it's a big house of lifts and long corridors

Hana Momiji opened in 1992 as the annex of Shikanoyu, a Jozankei inn that traces itself to 1897; the two buildings are joined by a fourth-floor corridor and guests can use both sets of baths. It has 77 rooms — mostly 45–75㎡ tatami rooms — plus two floors remade recently: urara (2022), whose rooms have their own free-flowing onsen bath, and coconoe (2024), shower-only twins with a free bar lounge and free private-bath use. Japanese guests rate it 4.54 across 1,201 reviews on one major site (rooms, service and baths all 4.58, dinner lowest at 4.40) and 4.4 across 3,412 on another, where breakfast scores lowest at 4.2. Most recent evidence comes from these booking-site reviews; only one detailed 2026 travelogue was found. People love the lobby lounge — free coffee, beer, spirits, warabi-mochi and onsen manju from check-in until night, refreshed in 2026 — the roomy tatami rooms, the 12th-floor view bath and the 'all-you-can-drink' feel. Dinner is a seated kaiseki in three grades (Shiori, Nishiki, Hatsune) with wagyu shabu-shabu, crab and a corn kamameshi people keep mentioning. The caveats from 2026: dishes laid out before guests sit down, so some arrive cold or watery; hurried plate-clearing; a breakfast buffet even on the special floors; long lift waits with only two lifts; a maze-like walk to the Shikanoyu baths; rooms some found too hot; and an urara guest whose in-room bath wasn't working. Most 2026 reviewers paid about ¥22,000–27,000 per person with two meals, over ¥30,000 on the special floors.