Kinugawa Onsen Hotel Manyotei

A budget, near-all-inclusive onsen hotel on the Kinugawa gorge — free afternoon beer and oden, a crab-and-hotpot half-buffet with drinks, and a free private bath — but the building is old, the spring is diluted and recirculated, and 2026 guests report lukewarm baths, mould and thin buffets

Manyotei is an older 72-room onsen hotel on the Kinugawa gorge, now run by the budget BBH Hotel Group (about 160 properties), which revived it in its trademark near-all-inclusive style. Almost every room is a 10-tatami Japanese room with a unit bath, guests lay out their own futons, and dinner is eaten on tatami in a banquet hall — so in substance it's a big, casual Japanese onsen inn rather than a traditional ryokan. Bloggers who stayed in 2022 and 2023, and dozens of 2025–2026 reviewers, come for the extras included in the price: draft beer, highballs, sparkling wine and oden in the lobby from 15:00 to 17:00, free late-night soba, coffee, manga, massage chairs, karaoke and table tennis, a free private bath, and a dinner of Nasu pork soy-milk hotpot with a half-buffet (red snow crab on most plans) and 90 minutes of drinks. Japanese guests rate it 4.0 across 728 reviews on one major site (service 4.2, rooms 3.6, cleanliness 3.7) and 3.84 across 661 on another (facilities and cleanliness both 3.51); most of the recent evidence comes from these booking-site reviews. The complaints are consistent: an ageing building with mould around sinks, cold corridors and broken fridges (January–February 2026), lukewarm baths (July 2026), a buffet with no sashimi that ran out early, and a one-hour dinner slot. In August 2026 the hotel posted a notice that the main open-air bath had been running on heated tap water after an equipment fault, until a new spring supply was secured. Two-meal plans run about ¥9,000–16,000 per person.