Araya Totoan: Traditional Ryokan Experience in Yamashiro

Stay Araya Totoan features just 18 Japanese-style rooms. All are sparsely decorated with contemporary Japanese art, sculptural paper lampshades and come with tatami-style living room and futon beds. Some rooms are available with western-style beds, for those seeking some extra familiar comfort whilst sleeping. Each room has a terrace, a garden and many have free-flowing hot water from the hot spring straight into the room’s Yoshino hinoki (Japanese cypress) bath. 

ChildCare Families with children are welcome to stay at the Araya Totoan but there are no specific facilities available for children. Please be aware that the Japanese food can be unfamiliar for very young children and it is difficult to cater for those with strict dietary requirements.

Dine Dining at the Araya Totoan is a unique experience. Breakfast and dinner is usually served in your room in Japanese style. The kaiseki style meals are prepared with local seafood from Hashitate docks and vegetables grown in the mountains. Served on famous Japanese ‘Kaga-yaki’ pottery and ‘Yamanaka-nuri’ lacquerware, its multi-courses are enjoyed with full-flavored local sake and what could be an unforgettable two-hour affair.

Relax The Ryokan experience is all about relaxing and enjoying the hot spring waters and dining on the most exquisite array of wonderful dishes. Yamashiro Onsen sits on the original hot spring source of internationally acclaimed superior quality water and the one in Araya Totoan gushes out over 100,000 litres of water per day. These waters run through three public onsen on the property, each beautifully set in wood or stone with views of the verdant landscape outside. 

Experience Guests at Araya Totoan can take a day tour to visit the interesting town of Kanazawa, famous for its handicrafts. It’s well-known for Kutani-yaki (Kutani ware), a style of Japanese porcelain characterised by its innovative designs and Kanazawa-haku (Kanazawa gold leaf) used in Japanese culture’s lavish decorations. However, shoppers will love Kaga Yuzen and ‘Bokash-zome’, in which a cloth is dyed unevenly in different shades, in a way to express the beauty of nature.