Four-star One MICHELIN Key Miyanoshita, Hakone
ESPACIO The Hakone Geihinkan Rin-Poh-Ki-Ryu
Nine villas at the bottom of the Hayakawa valley in Miyanoshita, reached by a private cable car, each with its own spring-fed baths and a plunge pool.
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- MICHELIN
- One Key, 2026
- Villas
- Nine
- Opened
- July 2024
- From the airport
- About two hours by car from Haneda, our estimate
The hotel
Down the cable car to the river.
Guests check in at the Upper Reception on the old Tokaido road, where replica samurai armour stands in the hall. A private cable car then takes about five minutes to drop some hundred metres into the valley of the Hayakawa. Nine villas wait at the bottom, among the trees by the river. The group behind ESPACIO The Jewel of Waikiki opened them in July 2024.
The name honours the four guardian creatures of Hakone: the kirin, the phoenix, the tortoise and the dragon. Japanese craftsmen worked them into each villa in kumiko lattice, karakami paper, lacquer and gold and silver leaf. Water comes from the Dogashima spring, one of the seven old springs of Hakone, and fills the baths undiluted. Tradition holds that the Zen priest Muso Soseki founded the spring in the fourteenth century.
- Kyoto in the villa Dinner is kaiseki in the Kyoto manner, directed by Takahiro Yamagishi of Tominokoji Yamagishi and served in your villa, with sake chosen by Keita Akaboshi.
- ESPACIO SPA The brand's first spa, with an open-air bath in a lava cave and a bedrock bath of old Austrian marble.
- Baths of your own Every villa has an open-air bath, an indoor bath and a plunge pool, and five of the nine add a sauna.
Rooms & suites
Nine villas, each one different.
The villas measure from about 92 to 106 square metres. Each is decorated differently, with a terrace and a living room behind large windows.
- Villas Private villas Open-air and indoor baths fed by the Dogashima spring, a plunge pool and a terrace; five have a sauna, and some a room for the tea ceremony.
- Step-free Musubi The barrier-free villa, for guests who need level access.
Recognition
Recognition.
- One MICHELIN Key 2026
- The Leading Hotels of the World Member
Good to know
Before you go.
- Arrival Check-in from 3 pm, check-out by 11 am. Reception is at the top of the hill, by the road.
- Meals Dinner and breakfast are brought to the villa.
Getting there
Flying to Hakone.
Tokyo Haneda is the airport for scheduled flights and for business jets, which use the private gate at Terminal 3. By car, allow about two hours to Miyanoshita, our estimate. The Romancecar train from Shinjuku reaches Hakone-Yumoto in about eighty minutes.
- Sapporo 1 h 25
- Seoul 1 h 55
- Taipei 3 h 05
- Hong Kong 4 h 10
- Honolulu 8 h 30 long-range jet
Questions
What guests ask first.
- How do you reach the villas at ESPACIO Hakone?
- By a private cable car from the Upper Reception, a ride of about five minutes down some hundred metres into the Hayakawa valley.
- Does ESPACIO The Hakone Geihinkan have a MICHELIN Key?
- Yes, one Key in the MICHELIN Guide's 2026 selection for Japan.
- Does every villa have a hot spring bath?
- Yes. Each villa has an open-air bath and an indoor bath filled with undiluted water from the Dogashima spring, plus a plunge pool.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Hakone?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Hakone, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
Also in Hakone
Other hotels worth the trip.
- Gora Kadan A former retreat of the imperial family, now a 41-room ryokan with a mineral pool set among great rocks, and Hakone’s only three-Key hotel.
- Fufu Hakone Thirty-nine rooms on the mountainside, with one spring for the public baths and a different one piped to the rooms.
- Hakone Gora Karaku Seventy tatami and Western rooms, every one of them with its own onsen bath.
- The Hiramatsu Hotels & Resorts Sengokuhara Twenty rooms run on the lines of a French auberge, some facing the caldera, each with a spring-fed bath.
Staying at ESPACIO The Hakone Geihinkan Rin-Poh-Ki-Ryu?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Hakone, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
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