Ishikawa Kaga City
A hilltop modern inn wrapped in a renowned 100% private-source free-flowing hot spring and a serene meditation sauna
Midorino Yado Banshokaku is an onsen ryokan in Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Perched on a quiet hill overlooking the Yamashiro Onsen district, it has a charming atmosphere surrounded by lush greenery. Guests can luxuriate in its private hot spring source, an extremely rare 100% free-flowing natural spring in Kaga Onsen with no added water or heating at all, carefully temperature-managed by the proprietress. The public bath area features a Bona-style meditation sauna with no TV, subdued lighting, and soothing healing music, along with a deep, cold cold plunge bath. The open-air bathing area, where you can feel the refreshing breeze sweeping across the hilltop, offers an exquisite sense of relaxation like forest bathing. After bathing, one of the attractions is the free use of a state-of-the-art zero-gravity massage chair in the changing room.
One of the few large bath areas in the Kaga Onsen area to achieve a completely 100% free-flowing natural spring with no added water or heating. The colorless, crystal-clear Yamashiro New No. 1 Spring has an exceptionally smooth texture and is highly praised by onsen sommeliers for its skin-beautifying effects, gently enveloping the whole body and leaving you deeply refreshed.
An atmospheric open-air bath surrounded by lush green trees, where you can fully enjoy the feeling of forest bathing. With the pure air unique to a hilltop location and the songs of wild birds as background music, you can savor this renowned 100% free-flowing spring and forget the everyday hustle and bustle in a luxurious bathing experience that truly sets you free.
A refined private onsen bath with a Japanese-modern design. Using the same Yamashiro New No. 1 Spring as the large bath, it offers the luxury of 100% free-flowing natural spring water with no added water or heating, so you can enjoy it in complete privacy with your loved ones or partner. A blissful bath space requiring advance reservation and subject to a fee.
A luxurious private onsen bath installed on the terraces or balconies of 21 of the 50 guest rooms. Whether it is an observation rock bath, a stone bath, or a tiled bath, each room has a different style of tub, allowing you to have this exceptional skin-beautifying hot spring all to yourself 24 hours a day with free-flowing natural spring water. A supreme private space.
A quiet dry Bona sauna with a meditation concept, installed in both the men's and women's public bath areas. There is no TV, and soft indirect lighting creates a dim, calming atmosphere, accompanied by soothing healing music. While listening to the gentle sound of water flowing down to the cold plunge bath just outside, you can deeply focus on your own breathing and mind, making it an ultimate healing space that calms and restores.
A cold cold plunge bath placed right in front of the sauna room. With a sufficiently deep tub, it rapidly cools and tightens a body warmed in the meditation sauna. This facility prepares a smooth step into the refreshing open-air bathing experience of forest bathing, with green breezes drifting across the hilltop and the scent of the trees in the air.
[Day Trip Plan] 15:00-21:00 (Dinner and bathing day-trip plan at the restaurant, advance reservation required)
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