Room tour and review of Morizuya ryokan in Kinosaki, a tattoo-friendly onsen town in Japan with private baths and vegetarian options.
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The video includes a room tour at Morizuya, what the hot spring baths are like, when you can use them privately, the amazing Japanese kaiseki dinner (both meat/crab and vegetarian meals), a walk around Kinosaki at night and breakfast at the ryokan. Plus tips for choosing a ryokan and my guide to where to book ryokan for your Japan trip. Kinosaki is an onsen town that you can get to easily on a direct train from Osaka and Kyoto. All the ryokan and public baths in the town are tattoo-friendly (unusual in Japan), and Morizuya offers vegetarian meals as well as regular kaiseki dinners with local crab and Tajima beef.
00:00 Intro
00:43 Location
01:56 Room tour
07:56 Yukata
10:23 Ryokan tips
11:41 Dinner
21:39 Onsen baths
23:15 Breakfast
25:18 Review
25:32 How to book ryokan
27:48 Price
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26 Comments
We didn’t have enough time to stay at a Ryokan for our first trip but it is on my bucket list for the next one! And most likely in Kinosaki 😁
Amy, this ryokan looks amazing 😍. The meals were huge 😂. This is definitely on my bucket list and I can't wait to visit. This town is ideal because most of the people I'm travelling with have got tattoos. Another excellent video, thank you so much ❤
Awesome job Amy see you next time
You did not get a matcha tea ceremony in the neighboring building? 😯
7:04 It is written that "Facial cleanser which is able to remove makeup as well" in Japanese.
(Since I'm a guy I don't know the differences in usage between ordinary face cleansers and makeup removers used by women but, with the product, you can remove makeup with ordinary face cleansers usage, I guess.)
14:35 The cucumber decorative cut imitates a whole pine tree. The common point is that both cucumbers and pine needles are (quite) green.
Anyways thank you for introducing Japan which is my country in detail always.
Amazing Morizuya looks fantastic and I love all the personal touches they included like taking your photos in locations, seeing your kaiseki makes me far too excited it's been years since we had one and I can't wait to return to Kinosaki!!
Thanks for the video, it saved my bacon. I already had Kinosaki on my list from the previous video, but didn't bothere to check ryokans/hotels at the time. Checked now and Morizuya had one room left for a night in December and looks like the town is heavily booked in general for the time I will be in Japan. Close call. xD
The food looks absolutely great. 🤤
Looking forward to trying out an onsen for the first time. Despite previous 6 visits never went to one due to having a tattoo. Good to seeing a town being more welcoming about them.
2:10 seems one sketch about sleeping on a beach 🤣🤣😂😂🤣😅😅
Great video, we stayed at a ryokan in Nara which was lovely 😊
Another video of yours saved for my 'maybe someday' visit to Japan! This answered so many questions and helped with the tattoo friendly problems! And the veggie options is great to know about. Well done 😊
Thank you for making both of the videos around Kinosaki Onsen! My partner and I will be there in about a month and I've had the hardest time finding recent informational videos regarding. Your videos have been a wonderful resource for preparing for our trip!
A wonderful video! We also stayed in a ryokan in Kinosaki and the experience and the town are just as you describe – such a lovely memory for us to revisit by watching this, thanks!
I bet on the dinner going on until the plates don't go back empty, judging by personal touch in everything. Some kind of challenge.
Probably all your videos will help me to have an awesome holiday, even alone , a holiday like this is great
I've heard it's quite rude in Japan to not finish what's on your plate. But did you actually manage to finish all of that? How long did it take? If you didn't finish, what happens to the left overs?
Loved the video, but just wanted to clarify that not ALL Ryokans allow tattoos in their public baths. Some will tell you that you have to cover them up with a medical bandage.
I stayed at this same ryokan on my first trip. I ended up having the same issue with booking directly through their website, I never received a confirmation from them after making a booking online. I ultimately had to have the receptionist at my first hotel call them for me and found out they had never checked their email in the months since I had booked. Fortunately it was a very quiet part of the year and they were able to book me over the phone. Ultimately glad I was able to have it sorted out though, once I had been confirmed it was a fantastic stay. Can confirm the family who runs it is extremely friendly, very eager to take photos for me, and when I checked in they brought me to a small building next door and the owner's mother prepared matcha for me
That looks an amazing experience.
That meal, though.
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I stayed at my first ryokan on my most recent trip to japan…we ended up in Hakone as it was close to tokyo as well as on our way to our next destination. I think the cost is definitely worth it. We were there for 2 nights so have 2 kaiseki dinners and 2 kaiseki breakfasts and it was absolutely worth the money. The ryokan we stayed at was around 130 years old and it was absolutely stunning. Highly highly recommend getting one where you can reserve baths for private use – we did this at ours…but it ended up not being a problem as the public baths were usually free (which ended up being a blessing in disguise as i have tattoos on my back, which are a bit hard to cover up!). I also found that having an onsen soak after our huge kaiseki dinners helped digest that fed 😂 if you can afford a stay i definitely think its something everyone should do at least once.
Kinosaki looks great. I stayed at an Ryokan in Hakone. Having a kaiseki meal is always amazing.
I stayed at a ryokan on Miyajima and it was incredible. So worth the price I paid – the staff were so nice and the food and room were amazing! I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Another great report. I laughed when you were talking about your first course as if it were your whole dinner – exactly the same thing happened to us in a ryokan in the Iya Valley on Shikoku: course after course, enough food for easily six people when there were only two of us, and we were hyper conscious that it was considered rude to leave any food. We stayed two nights and it felt like 'death by food' – we were incredibly relieved to escape after our last enormous breakfast. We also found the constant attention rather intrusive and didn't really enjoy that experience. But I stayed on my own in a hotel-style ryokan in Naruko Onsen Town this May, which was the best of both worlds and also the dinner was a more manageable size (plus I knew to pace myself!). Sadly their yukata were of much more limited choice and all very worn out from laundering, not as nice as yours. Also Kinosaki looks like a much posher place than Naruko.
hmmm,… the stigma of tattooing criminals (and of course the mafia) is still too repugnant to me … I won't feel comfortable bathing with people with tattoos … the willow tree lined stream and Literature Museum are so beautiful here … I only wish I came in Winter to enjoy the yummy seafood in season. For some reason, the vinegar drinks made here are so delicious.
Looks absolutely stunning! Thanks for another great video!