Mukaitaki

Kutsurogijuku Shintaki

会津東山温泉 くつろぎ宿 新滝

A big, well-run riverside inn with four truly free-flowing baths — including the Aizu lords' rock bath fed from the bedrock beneath it — free sake in the lounge and Aizu-style dinners at a fair price; it's busy, dim and full of stairs, and private baths cost extra

• Ryokan históricos

Shosuke no Yado Takinoyu

会津東山温泉 庄助の宿 瀧の湯

A big riverside inn on the spot where Higashiyama Onsen began, with open-air baths beside a floodlit waterfall, seven private baths and famous breakfast mochi — but the cheaper rooms are cramped, the building is full of steps, and 2026 reviews flag smells and patchy upkeep

Zao Onsen Kinosato

蔵王温泉 岩清水料理の宿 季の里

Un ryokan familiar y acogedor de 20 habitaciones en el borde de Zao Onsen, querido por su personal y sus abundantes cenas de ternera de Yamagata, con un baño sulfuroso lechoso de agua que fluye sin recircular en una casa de baños de madera al otro lado del aparcamiento — los baños interiores no son de agua termal, y el edificio de 1993 acusa los años

Zao Onsen Oomiya Ryokan

蔵王温泉 おおみや旅館

A Taishō-romance inn where every corridor and stair is tatami, with 100% free-flowing sulphur water from its own spring and Yamagata-beef dinners at a fair price — but the baths are small and crowd easily, there's no lift, and the open-air bath shuts all winter

Miyamaso Takamiya

蔵王温泉 深山荘 高見屋

A 300-year-old inn with its own fiercely acidic sulphur springs and some of Zao's best-loved cooking — in an old, maze-like building with no lift

• Ryokan históricos
• Habitaciones con onsen privado

Zao Onsen Uta no Yado Wakamatsuya

蔵王温泉 蔵王・和歌（うた）の宿 わかまつや

A 21-room inn tied to the poet Saitō Mokichi, with its own unwatered, unheated pH 1.8 sulphur spring, two free private baths and Yamagata-beef kaiseki in private dining rooms — the building itself is newer and some fittings are tired

• Habitaciones con onsen privado
• Ryokan históricos