Atami Onsen Furuya Ryokan

Atami's oldest inn (1806), with its own Seizaemon spring piped untreated into the shared baths and most rooms, and every meal served in your room — but it's a modern building in a crowded town centre, with little view, and a few 2024–2026 guests found it overpriced

Furuya has been run by the Uchida family since 1806, which makes it the oldest working inn in Atami. You enter through the Takeda-style gate used in Kurosawa's film Kagemusha, and the lobby gallery shows the inn's history: the journalist Tokutomi Sohō stayed here three to four months a year for two decades. The inn is the only user of the Seizaemon spring, one of the historic 'Seven Springs of Atami'. It is a sodium-calcium chloride spring that leaves the ground at about 90°C, and the inn says it adds no water, no heating, no filtration and no chlorine. The water fills the two shared baths and the private baths of every room type except the standard rooms, and the shared baths are drained every day. Every room is set with chairs and a table rather than floor seating, and dinner and breakfast are always served in the room. Japanese guests rate it 4.86 across 323 reviews on one leading site (service 4.92, food 4.91), 4.86 across about 570 on another, and 5.0 across 795 on a third. Reviewers praise the 13-course Kyoto-style kaiseki with abalone or A5 beef, the attentive room attendants, the free drinks in the room fridge, and how easy the inn is for babies and older relatives. The weak spots are just as consistent. To one 2026 guest the building felt like an ordinary modern inn, the shared baths are small and walled in, and the inn itself warns that no room has a real view. In 2024–2026 a few guests found the service scripted, found the furnishings cheap for the price, or reported dirty tap water. Two-meal stays for two start at about ¥82,000–105,000.