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 bersejarah

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

Penginapan keluarga 20 kamar yang hangat di tepi Zao Onsen, disukai karena stafnya dan makan malam sapi Yamagata yang mengenyangkan, dengan pemandian belerang berwarna susu yang mengalir langsung di gedung pemandian kayu di seberang tempat parkir — pemandian dalam ruangan bukan air onsen, dan bangunan tahun 1993-nya mulai tampak usang

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 bersejarah
• Kamar dengan onsen pribadi

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

• Kamar dengan onsen pribadi
• Ryokan bersejarah