Ryokan Enraku
938-0382 Toyama, Kurobe, Unazuki-Onsen 347-1, Japan –
A 7-minute walk from beautiful Kurobe Gorge, Enraku offers Japanese-style rooms with Kurobe River views. It features hot spring baths, a beauty salon and a charged sauna. The lobby provides free Wi-Fi, and seasonal local cuisine is served in the room.
Enraku’s 5 different hot springs and hot public baths include open-air baths, a bath with river views and a 24-hour bath. Guests can play table tennis, while a souvenir shop, a bar and drinks vending machines are on-site.
Tranquil rooms feature a tatami (woven-straw) floor and sliding shoji paper screens that open to a seating area with chairs and a table, at floor-to-ceiling windows. Guests sleep in traditional futon bedding.
Enraku serves a delicious Japanese breakfast and a traditional multi-course dinner featuring local seafood. Meals are served in the room, where guests can enjoy them with river views.
Enraku offers a free shuttle service to/from Unazuki-Onsen Train Station, a 3-minute walk away. Amusement park Mirage Land is a 40-minute drive from the hotel.
This property is a ryokan, which is a type of traditional Japanese Inn. Learn more
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- What is a ryokan?
- A ryokan is a traditional Japanese inn. They usually feature public baths, multi-course dinners, communal spaces where guests can relax, and rooms with woven-straw flooring and futon mats. Like hotels, a range of ryokans (from budget to luxury) is available. What originated centuries ago as a free rest house for long-distance travellers has evolved into a popular destination for relaxation in therapeutic mineral springs.
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- What are the major differences between a ryokan and a hotel?
- Unlike a hotel, where the guest room is simply a place to turn in for the night, a ryokan is more than just an accommodation place to sleep. In Japan, many travellers journey long distances solely for the purpose of relaxing in a hot spring bath and feasting on a traditional multi-course dinner – thus making staying at a ryokan an experience in and of itself. These ryokans typically have Japanese-style rooms with woven-straw flooring and futon beds, instead of Western beds and carpeting. In addition, you remove your shoes at the entrance of the accommodation, or before you enter the room. Modern ryokan may serve buffet-style meals in a dining area, while a more traditional ryokan serves in-room dinners. Some ryokan rooms may come with a private bathroom, while others will only have a shared public bathroom.
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- What is a kaiseki meal?
- Kaiseki is the culinary highlight at a ryokan, embodied in beautifully presented dishes that delight both the palate and the eyes. Each of the 10 to 15 dishes that make up the multi-course Japanese dinner is prepared in such a way that highlights the unique textures, colours, and flavours of the featured seasonal ingredients and local specialties. Served most commonly at special restaurants and ryokan, a traditional kaiseki dinner usually consists of bite-sized appetizers, fresh sashimi (raw fish), soup, grilled fish or meat, a hot pot dish, rice with miso soup, and a small dessert.
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- What is a yukata?
- Yukata is a casual summer kimono typically made of light cotton. Many ryokans offer guests yukata robes during their stay. In some areas, it is common to see guests strolling through the neighbourhood in their yukata. The loose-fitting garment is perfect for relaxing and sleeping in.
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- How to wear a yukata
- First, put your arms through the sleeves like you would with a shirt. Take the right side of the yukata and wrap it across your body. Then take the left side and wrap it over the right, making sure that the robe is levelled at your ankle. Pinning the yukata closed on the right side, wrap the sash around your waist a couple of times and then tie a bow. Generally, the bow is tied around the waist for women, and the hips for men.
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- What is a Japanese hot spring (onsen)?
- Onsen (literally ‘hot spring’) is a term often used to refer to both the mineral-rich hot springs and the bathing facilities that house them. Whether the bath is public or private, gender-segregated or mixed, indoor or outdoor, soaking and unwinding in the soothing geothermal waters at an onsen is a millennia-old custom deeply embedded in Japanese culture.
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- Bathing procedures and etiquette
- At a public bath – onsen or not – guests are expected to shed all their clothes in their respective changing rooms before entering the bathing area. As a common courtesy, once inside the bathing area, guests should wash and rinse their bodies thoroughly before quietly stepping into the hot water. Whether you relax in solitude or converse softly with others is up to you, but guests should always be mindful of others. Wash towels are often used to cover one’s private areas while walking around. However, note that you must not put towels in the water.
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- Why are tattoos not allowed?
- While tattoos have become more popular among the youth of Japan, many Japanese people still associate them with outlaws and organized crime. Nowadays, not all businesses ban customers with tattoos, but you may still be refused admission to public baths and swimming pools. Small tattoos may be covered up using waterproof plasters, but keep in mind that each property has the final say on what’s acceptable.
Couples particularly like the location — they rated it 8.8 for a two-person trip.
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Property surroundings –
Closest landmarks *
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Kurobe Gorge0.3 miles
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Kurobe-Unazukionsen Station6.8 miles
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Uozu Station9.8 miles
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Ariso Dome10.1 miles
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Uozu Aquarium10.9 miles
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Mirage Land10.9 miles
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Tsugaike Nature Park13.2 miles
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Happoike14 miles
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Happo One Ski Resort16.2 miles
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Tsugaike Kogen Ski Area16.2 miles
Closest airports *
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Toyama Airport24.8 miles
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Noto Airport47.8 miles
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Matsumoto Airport48.8 miles
Most popular landmarks *
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Mikurigaike Onsen16.3 miles
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Hakuba Jump Arena16.3 miles
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Hakuba47 Winter Sports Park16.4 miles
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Hakuba Iwatake Ski Area16.8 miles
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Hakuba Cortina Ski Area17.1 miles
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Kurobe Dam18 miles
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Toyama-kō19.7 miles
What travellers love about this location
“Staff was fantastic - helpful, knowledgeable and spoke English, baths (3 of them!) were beautiful, room was enormous with an unbeatable view of the gorge, food ...”
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Pets
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Pets are not allowed.
Activities
- Table tennis Additional charge
Food & Drink
- Bar
Internet
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Free! Wired internet is available in the hotel rooms and is free of charge.
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Free! WiFi is available in public areas and is free of charge.
Parking
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Free! Free private parking is possible on site (reservation is not needed).
Wellness facilities
- Public Bath
- Open-air bath
- Hot spring bath
- Massage Additional charge
- Sauna Additional charge
Services
- Shuttle service
- Vending machine (drinks)
- Shuttle service (free)
- Luggage storage
- Meeting/banquet facilities Additional charge
General
- Air conditioning
- Shops (on site)
- Heating
- Lift
- Family rooms
Languages spoken
- English
- Japanese
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Children and extra beds
All children are welcome.
Free! One child under 3 years stays free of charge when using existing beds.
There is no capacity for extra beds in the room.
Enraku accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Pets
Pets are not allowed.
To use the property's free shuttle, please make a reservation at time of booking, or call upon arrival at the station. The hotel's contact information can be found in the booking confirmation.
