Kinsuikan

家族旅行で宮島へ行き、初めて利用させていただきました。 厳島神社からほど近く、メイン通りとなる賑やかな商店街のすぐそばの海沿いに建つ、歴史ある古き良き旅館を現代向けに改装した感じで、施設全体~お部屋の設備は統一感があって綺麗に整えられつつ、所々に昔ながらの歴史を感じることのできる大変素敵な旅館でした。 宿泊者限定の無料サービスが館内に数多く提供されています。館内には景観を楽しめるフリードリンク有のラウンジがロビーや最上階に設置されていたり、好みによって複数の枕、浴衣を選択できるサービスも整えられています。室内にも飲物や菓子等を豊富に揃えてあるので、細かい飲料などの出費を気にせずに済みました。 この旅館は、宿泊者の希望に対し可能な限り柔軟かつ快く応えて下さいます。 例えば今回私達の場合、家族に足の悪い者がいることを事前に伝えたところ和室にベッドを設置して下さったり、提供される基本のお料理を各人の好みで変更して頂けたり、どうしたら良いか迷った際も即座に臨機応変な対応・提案をして頂けるので、大変心地良く過ごす事ができました。 温泉は地下にあり、大浴槽１か所だけの昔ながらの雰囲気で、そんなに広さはありませんし、地下にあるため景観も良いとは言えません。今時の工夫された温泉場と比較すると物足りなく感じるかも知れませんが、昔ながらの雰囲気ながら清潔に整えられており温度も４０度前後なので、長風呂しつつ「古き良き」をじっくり楽しむ所と感じました。 湯質はほんのり塩味のあるサラサラした感触で、源泉を汲み上げ沸かして提供していると記載がありました。肌が弱い家族にも沁みたり乾燥したりせず、快適に入浴出来ました。 露天風呂や貸切風呂は残念ながらありませんが、お部屋によっては一部お部屋つき露天風呂があるそうなので、好みによって選択出来るかと思います。 ここで特筆すべきはお料理の素晴らしさです。 こういった大きな旅館での大支度にありがちな、コースや料金によってお食事の量に差があったり足りなかったり、サイトにある画像と見た目の印象や質が大きく違ったり、旅館料理によくある提供時に冷めてしまった料理などの失敗感など全くないどころか、むしろそれ以上、感動レベルの素晴らしいお料理を提供していただけました。 今回私達はお部屋食で、本来なら雅膳が基本セットとのことでしたが、サイト上に案内のある４種類の季節のコース料理（雅膳、美味魚編、美味肉編、美味饗宴）を事前予約の段階でリクエストして家族でそれぞれ全ていただきました。どのコースも全くハズレがなく、土地ならではの豊富な食材をとても丁寧に仕込まれていてどれも大変美味しく、別注でお願いした単品料理も素早く準備して下さり、最後にはお腹いっぱいで食べ切れなかった釜飯をお夜食用にとおにぎりにして下さったりと、何もかもにおいて至れり尽くせり、最高を超える至高のひと時を提供していただけました。更に翌朝いただいたお食事会場での朝食も大変品数が多くて驚くほど豪華で、それでいて量は少しずつ適切で、とても満足度の高い内容でした。 なお味付けは、新鮮な素材の良さを最大限生かした優しい風味を守りつつも薄味過ぎずで、うまみ調味料など人工的な味覚操作に頼らない、自然かつ健康的で絶妙な味調整と適切な温度で提供され、美味しくてとても感動しました。十代の若者でも物足りなさなど全く感じず最後まで美味しく戴けましたし、高齢者にも温度、味付け、食材の大きさや硬さなども全く問題ありませんでした。なお私は糖尿病Ⅱ型で普段から血糖値を気にしているのですが、これだけしっかり色々食べても血糖値の上昇が穏やかで普段の外食時のように高騰せず、後々体調が辛くならなかったので非常に驚いています。味の感じ方については個人差があるとは思いますが、参考になりましたら幸いです。

Amazing view and great service. Very close to the floating Tori gate was a 5 minute walk away. Very nice treats all around, as well as a great dinner and breakfast experience! Make sure to save room for dinner! All around fantastic experience.

A wonderful traditional ryokan hotel on the waterfront at Miyajima with views of the famous Itsukushima Shrine torii gate. The room was immaculate and well appointed, and had a great lounge area with massage chair overlooking the water. We enjoyed the private and public baths, free drinks on the rooftop terrace, as well as a most delicious and impressive kaiseki dinner in our room. Our attendant was lovely and friendly, and took such great care of our mixed Japanese/ Australian party. The next morning we joined other hotel guests in the banquet hall downstairs for a Japanese breakfast. A most enjoyable experience!

Kinsuikan was a cozy nice hotel .The room I stayed was a small one without view,(that’s why the price was less expensive than other rooms)but I could enjoy a panoramic view from the roof top terrace instead . Also all the staff members were kind.Recommendable especially for female travelers.

Nice ryokan hotel! The front desk spoke enough English and had enough handouts to keep us informed. They had a rooftop and street level terraces with free beverages as well as a book nook to read or relax in with beverages. We upgraded to the sea view and it was worth it. We did not eat at the hotel as we needed a few more “western” options but otherwise, it looked good. We loved our massage chair but it could use a good cleaning. I loved the Onsen and yukatas. I enjoyed looking at the rock wall with moss, plants, and trickling water while in the onsen, but it would have been nicer if the glass was cleaner. The onsen was immaculate I would recommend this hotel for a traditional Japanese experience (we had a Japanese room with four futons on the floor).

Miyajima has a lot going for it. It's not far from central Hiroshima (city), it is a short 10 minute ferry ride from the mainland, is steeped in history and has some amazing UNESCO World Heritage structures - including Itsukushima Shrine and the O-Torii Vermillion Gate, Hokoku-jinja Shrine's Senjokaku and Five-storey Pagoda, Daisho-in Temple, tons of cute Deer that roam the island, incredible views of the Seto Inland Sea (especially from the top of Mt. Misen, which you can go part way up via a ropeway), a cute shopping street, and some fine cuisine, including Oysters that are harvested in the area. And during the Fall foliage season, the autumn leaves burst in vibrant colors that add to the mystical appeal (including in the famous and picturesque Momijidani area.) And when it comes to the Torii gate, it shows itself in different ways, depending on the lighting/weather, low/high tide, and dawn/midday/dusk. It is for these reasons that we returned yet again to Miyajima. During our most recent visit, we stayed at Iwaso and were underwhelmed. This time, we went with Kinsuikan, and we're sure glad we did! Originally established in 1902, Kinsuikan doesn't quite have the history or old-Japan charm that Iwaso has in abundance, but it more than makes up for it in too many ways to mention. While the building is nondescript and there is no garden to speak of, it has rooms that offer great views of the sea, has incredible Kaiseki cuisine, some nice common areas including a rooftop terrace as well as the only Onsen (natural hot springs) on the island. When looking into selecting a room at Kinsuikan, it wasn't immediately obvious what room type would be most to our liking. There appeared to be some very spacious Japanese-style Suite rooms with separate living/bedrooms, while the six Tokubetsu ****su (the "Special" rooms) were only 42 square meters in size but were more modern (built in 2021 or 2022, depending on the specific room), had a view of the sea and a nice free-flowing bath in the room. In the end, we went with what they designated as the "Special" room, opting for the allure of an in-room bath over a more spacious and traditional room. In the end, we definitely made the right choice. Advantages of the special rooms are: 1) View of the sea; 2) both dinner and breakfast served in the room; 3) super modern rooms with all of the modern technologies (heated floors, power plugs and USB ports everywhere, for instance); 4) Superior meals for both dinner and breakfast. I didn't know this at the time we booked, and don't have a basis to compare with the "standard" meals, but all I can say is that both dinner and breakfast were fantastic (more on this later.) While guests staying in non-Special rooms can pay to have an equivalent-quality dinner, you cannot pay extra to have a similar grade breakfast. The one disappointment with the Special room has to do with the Onsen, or lack thereof. The in-room bath has some mineral properties similar to Onsen, but they

I've stayed in several ryokans and hotels on Miyajima before but this one really has many interesting facilities! First off, it's got great rooms, quite a few are newly renovated. We got an older room with separated tatami rooms, a kotatsu area, a dining table area with chairs and a TV, and a great (and very well used) massage chair, highly recommended! Food was served in-room for dinner, course by course was introduced by our dedicated servers. But it's the outside-of-room facilities which impressed me: an outdoors sheltered sea-side facing terrace with free drinks for guests only on the street level, an indoors 'book cafe' also only for guests (so you potentially can really spend time here leisurely if your room isn't ready yet), a 5th floor indoors piped jazz free drinks (including alcohol and hot drinks and soft drinks) lounge which also has private rooms, and an amazing rooftop open-air lounge which has spectacular views of the Itsukushima Shrine torii gates. Plus one of the only places with an actual onsen bath on Miyajima though I think there wasn't any rotenburo for that. Breakfast was Ryokan style at a restaurant. We also used the coin laundry and dryer quite a bit. We didn't manage to catch it (kids were too tired) but they also provided a bus to the Mt Misen ropeway which was much earlier than the usual free shuttle bus so it would have been great to head up to Mt Misen before the day-trippers descend on Miyajima. All in all, if I'm back in Miyajima again, I'm totally coming back here!

The hotel is very dated. Sink toilet bathroom look depressing. The room we booked did not have the four futon BEDS describes in the ******* website. There are futons bet not during beds and they have to be arranged every night in the floor by displacing the table that is in the middle of the living room. Food was nicely presented but not at all at par with other Japanese meals we have had in other ryokans, restaurants or hotels. The location is excellent. The island being small it is close to everything sites. The floating tori is being renovated otherwise the rooms facing the ocean would offer a terrific view of the gate.

今回は2回目の利用でした。前回宿泊した時にはなかった屋上にある宮島テラスからは宮島を一望できます。また、料理はどれも美味しく、それに合う日本酒も用意されています。宮島に泊まるならこの宿がおすすめです。