Kanazawa Yuwaku Onsen Hyakurakuso

Two very different wings in one Yuwaku inn: a photogenic main building with a games lounge, and a suite-heavy annex with a free-drinks lounge and four private baths — 14 of the 24 rooms have their own onsen bath, but the water is recirculated, some smell chlorine, and smoke drifts into the annex's second floor

Hyakurakuso in Yuwaku belongs to the same group as the cave-bath Hyakurakuso on Noto's Tsukumo Bay, a separate inn that's easy to confuse with it. It took over the old Santaemon Todaya kaiseki inn and reopened under this name in September 2016. It's really two buildings side by side. The 12-room main wing, Iroha, has rooms styled down to the cups, shared baths and a games lounge with billiards, darts and table tennis. The 12-room annex, Kagura, has six 60㎡ suites, four private baths and a lounge with free drinks that only annex guests may use. Fourteen of the 24 rooms have their own semi-open-air onsen bath. Everyone gets a Japanese afternoon tea on arrival, a choice of more than 100 colourful yukata and a late-night snack. Most recent evidence comes from booking-site reviews: 4.69 across 794 on one major site (breakfast 4.75, baths 4.63), 4.48 across 146 on another and 4.6 across 43 on a third. Bloggers who stayed in summer and December 2024 praised the Noto-and-Kanazawa kaiseki served in private rooms and the free in-room fridge. Know before you book: the spring is diluted, heated and recirculated, and the December 2024 blogger and a May 2026 guest smelled strong chlorine. The annex's 'open-air' private baths are really indoor tubs with big windows. That blogger and a January 2026 guest also found cigarette smoke from the smoking room reaching the annex's second-floor lounge and baths. In 2026, others called the basic kaiseki thin for the price, the service 'second-rate', or the young crowd and staff not their style. Two-meal rates start around ¥57,000 for two in a main-wing room on a winter weekday; annex rooms run from about ¥73,000 to over ¥200,000.