Spend time without worrying about money. Five all-inclusive hotels in Kansai.

All-inclusive accommodation is recommended for those who want to enjoy a relaxing trip without having to worry about drinks, food, activities and other costs that are usually separate from the accommodation fee. It is a recently popular accommodation style that allows you to spend your time as you wish without worrying about your wallet.

In this issue, we introduce some all-inclusive hotels and inns in the Kansai region where you can have such a stress-free stay.

What does all-inclusive mean? What style is it?

To begin with, all-inclusive accommodation refers to accommodation services where the cost of all food and beverages and recreational activities at the facilities are included in the trip price.

This is a popular accommodation style as it allows guests to eat and drink at restaurants, use swimming pools and enjoy relaxing activities such as beauty treatments during their stay without worrying about additional charges. In recent years, an increasing number of hotels in Japan have adopted the all-inclusive style.

Five all-inclusive accommodation options in Kansai

This issue introduces all-inclusive inns in the Kansai region!

We have picked up a wide range of accommodation, including uninhabited inns, inns along the World Heritage and Kumano Kodo paths, adults-only inns and inns with excellent spas.

[Wakayama] SEN RETREAT

TAKAHARA

SEN RETREAT TAKAHARA, which just opened in 2022, is the perfect accommodation for walkers on the World Heritage Kumano Kodo Trail. It is a one-room inn with the warmth of wood, renovated from a vacant house in Takahara, a village with a population of 70 people.

The inn, which consists of a spacious living room where you can relax with your children and friends, and three calm Japanese-style rooms, is a self-check-in, unmanned inn. You can spend your time in peace and quiet without worrying about the eyes of others. Netflix and YouTube are available on the in-house TV.

The inn’s special feature is that you can enjoy the ‘all-Wakayama’ cuisine to your heart’s content. Fresh, odourless gibier meat, jams and juices made from whole Wakayama fruits, fresh vegetables from JA Kinan, local craft beer, plum wine, Japanese sake, different types of plum wine, coffee and much more… It is great to be able to enjoy local ingredients in a variety of ways.

BBQ sets, bonfire sets and all the necessary goods for gibier shabushabu are available, and the kitchen is equipped with basic cooking utensils, so you can enjoy your own cooking arrangements. Within walking distance is Kiri-no-Sato Takahara, where you can enjoy a day trip to the hot spring. The hot spring water is drawn from the Watarase Onsen, so please enjoy the onsen while taking a walk.

What is included in the all-inclusive package

• BBQ set / barbecue stove (in case of rain) / bonfire set
• Local produce (meat, seafood, vegetables, bread, jam, juice, sake, beer, plum wine, sweets)
• Netflix/YouTube

[Wakayama] World Heritage Resort Kumano Club

The World Heritage Resort Kumano Club, aptly named ‘Hideaway Resort’, is a resort hotel along the Kumano Kodo, also a World Heritage Site.

The theme of the hotel is ‘Gastronomic All Inclusive’, so you can enjoy free drinks at dinner, afternoon tea after arrival, local sake and cocktails in the lounge, a nightcap using Kumano specialities, milk and coffee milk after a hot bath, etc. as much as you like. Furthermore, a rare lunch is included. You can enjoy a sumptuous curry with lobster.

A nice touch is that the amenities – body soap, hair shampoo and hair treatment – are all by L’Occitane. This makes for a luxurious stay.

What is included in the all-inclusive package

• Afternoon tea
• Free drinks at dinner
• Free drinks (cocktails, local sake, etc.) in The Club Lounge and evening meal
• Free drinks in the room fridge (beer, soft drinks and mineral water for the number of adults)
• Local specialty drink after bathing (one from Ouchiyama milk, coffee milk, apple au lait, ramune)
• Popular souvenirs from the shop (after completing at least 5,000 steps around the hotel)
• 3,000 yen ticket for use at the shop
• L’Occitane amenities

[Hyogo] TOKITOTOKI

Toki to Toki is an all-inclusive inn in Kinosaki Onsen. This luxurious inn, with a total of six rooms, was created by renovating a 100-year-old historical and cultural building.

The cuisine is a food therapy menu that incorporates the essence of beauty, such as Tajima beef hittemabushi, 24-grain rice porridge and Japanese and Chinese aromatic tea. The Gokuraku-mushi (steamed in the traditional Japanese style) is another speciality, where guests can choose from a selection of ingredients such as Matsuba crab to be steamed in the Seiro (Japanese cooking method), while the 3rd floor club lounge offers free food, including local sake, champagne and tofu sweets. Enjoy to your heart’s content.

Two private onsen baths are available. You can bathe at your leisure without a reservation. Afternoon tea is also included, depending on the plan.

What is included in the all-inclusive package

• Drinks and food in the lounge
• Amenities from Setsu-Kaisei
• Unlimited access to seven outside hot springs ‘Onsen Pass’ (certain courses only)
• Afternoon tea (certain courses only)

[Nara] SETRE NARAMACHI

The next hotel is located by Sarusawa Pond in Nara Prefecture. The inn is built with an abundance of local Yoshino wood and offers the warmth of nature.

With a lounge where you can freely enjoy snacks and drinks, and a ‘star-space library’ with a view of the five-storey pagoda, you can spend quality time outside of your room.

In the lounge, you will find a selection of special snacks such as ‘mixed pizza with colourful vegetables’, ‘Nara pickles and strawberry rusks’ and seasonal fruit sweets, as well as draft beer, natur wines, fruit wines such as peach and mango, and hand-drip coffee.

The library has a wide range of books, photo collections, picture books and foreign books, so you can spend a relaxing time reading.

Other facilities include a garden where fresh vegetables are grown and a terrace where you can enjoy the starry sky at night.

Food is not the only thing you can enjoy free of charge. Recommended aromas can be enjoyed in each room, you can listen to records, enjoy morning walks in Nara, cycling, etc… It can be said that the inn is a place of healing and new discoveries.

Although not included in the all-inclusive package, you can also enjoy a sake tasting and rickshaw experience for an additional fee.

What is included in the all-inclusive package

• Free drinks and food in the lounge
• Recommended aromas
• Listening to vinyl records
• Participation in morning activities
• Use of bicycles for cycling

[Kyoto] Yuhigaura Onsen Kashoen Hare Oar

Overlooking the Sea of Japan, Yuhigaura Onsen Kashoen Hare Oar is a drink-inclusive hotel.

You can enjoy all drinks including alcohol in the room fridge, drinks at dinner, coffee and tea from the café corner, and ice cream after a hot bath for free.

The dinner menu is lined with dishes that will make you want to drink more alcohol. The dinner is highly satisfying, with Matsuba crab (snow crab from the Sea of Japan) cooked in various ways, such as boiled, grilled, sashimi and kani-sukiyaki, and a luxurious menu made from the best ingredients from Tango, such as Japanese black beef.

Breakfast is also a sumptuous affair. Dried fish and beef tongue shabu-shabu make you want to eat more than once with the delicious rice cooked in a kettle… it’s a sumptuous line-up.

You can enjoy your stay while being healed by the sound of the waves coming from just outside your room, and you can look out at both the sea and the sky from the open-air bath… this is the kind of inn in Kyotango.

What is included in the all-inclusive package

• Free drinks at dinner
• Free drinks (coffee, tea) in the café space
• Free drink in guestroom fridge
• Ice cream after taking a bath