Misasa Onsen Misasakan

Misasa's big, busy all-rounder: three private radon springs, twelve baths around a 1,000-tsubo garden and a crab-heavy table — just reopened after a 2026 refresh, but most rooms are standard Showa-era tatami rooms without spring water

Misasakan opened in 1938 and grew in the 1970s into a 74-room concrete inn with white walls and tiled roofs, built around a waterfall garden by the Mitoku river. A member of the imperial family stayed in September 2025. It closed for renovation and reopened on 18 July 2026 with a new lobby and welcome-drink bar, a dry sauna and plunge pool, and redesigned twin-bed rooms. The draw is the water: three springs on the property feed twelve baths in two garden bath zones that swap between men and women overnight, plus a hinoki private open-air bath. The inn says the open-air and private baths are free-flowing, while the big indoor baths mix free-flowing and filtered recirculated water. Japanese guests rate it 4.47 across 2,272 reviews on one major site (baths 4.60) and 4.5 across 1,346 on another (dinner 4.7). They praise the many baths, warm and attentive staff, Tottori wagyu and crab dinners, and a breakfast buffet of about 50 dishes with rolled omelette, tempura and rice balls made to order. Bloggers who stayed from 2025 to autumn 2026 say much the same, though most recent detail comes from booking-site reviews. Complaints from 2025 and 2026: ageing standard rooms with dated bathrooms and narrow single beds, lapses in room cleaning, rooms where you can't set the temperature, weak Wi-Fi, buffet dishes running out late in the morning, one scalding-hot waterfall shower and one guest who found the water heavily diluted. Two-meal plans run about ¥17,000–25,000 per person, and crab or seasonal menus cost ¥30,000 or more.