Kinsuikan

A 1902-founded, sixth-generation inn on Miyajima's seafront with a free-drinks rooftop terrace facing the great torii and much-praised oyster-and-anago dinners — but the baths are its weak spot: a heated cold spring in the shared baths, and artificial mineral water or plain hot water in the in-room and private baths

Kinsuikan was opened in 1902 by the Takeuchi family, who still run it (the sixth-generation owner took over in 2019); it's a 34-room modern building on the seafront, a few minutes from both the ferry pier and Itsukushima Shrine. Its draws are the location — guests walk to the shrine at night and at dawn, after the day-trippers leave — and the free extras: the rooftop Miyajima Terrace (opened July 2022) with free soft drinks, beer and ice cream and a view of the great torii, plus a book café and seaside terrace. Japanese guests rate it 4.9 across 1,333 reviews on one major site (dinner 4.9), 4.68 across 1,059 on another and 4.54 across 67 on a third. Reviewers from 2022 to 2026 praise warm, attentive staff, the ferry pick-up, and seasonal kaiseki with oysters, anago and a rice pot cooked at the table, leftovers turned into rice balls. The bath is the lowest-scored category on all three sites (about 4.4). The shared baths use the inn's own sodium chloride cold spring, heated to about 41°C; they were renovated in July 2026. The semi-open-air baths in the suites use artificial 'Kōmyōseki' mineral water, and the Mizuori rooms' private bath is plain heated water. Complaints in 2025–2026: a seafood smell and small insects during an in-room dinner, a shower with no curtain, no late check-out, futons laid during dinner without warning, and several reviewers who felt the quality fell short of the price. Two-meal stays for two run from about ¥80,000–97,000 in a standard room to ¥200,000 in a suite.