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。

My husband and I had a wonderful stay at Kinsuikan (a ryokan inn). The location is on the Main Street facing the bay. Highly recommend that you stay in one of the half open air suites. Having your own inroom bath, overlooking the bay was wonderful. The room had standard western style bed, which was nice. The inroom dinner was also wonderful. It was served by our hostess Yui who spoke excellent English. (She’d be great at the front desk as reception staff spoke limited English) The quantities were huge. So you probably do not need to order extra beef Wagyu ( or only one order for 2 people) Our only complaint was that the breakfast is only Japanese style. So we ended up skipping breakfast the second day. A note, if you’re not a huge oyster fan, you may want to ask them to skip the oysters. (They are cooked. I think grilled or steamed). The ryokan also specializes in wedding photography packages which looked very nice.

The service was excellent, the location was great, and the view was awesome. However, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed in the dinner meal. We had opted for the Seafood meal as we had heard great things about Hiroshima / Miyajima seafood, but was surprised to see that it was "good" but not "great". Was also slightly put off when seeing a staff chase a cockroach in the lobby. Next time I come back to Hiroshima / Miyajima, I will likely try another location.

What a retreat. We spent 2 nights in a family room with sea view. Real Japanese tradition. Dining and sleeping in the same room. Dlicious dinner is served by really friendly staff, who then prepare your futon for the night. The hotel has all the needed facilities (nice bathroom, drinks a volunteer in room fridge or at various places in the hotel, amazing terrace with view on the sea, mountain, shrines and temples, onsen, ypu get really nice yukata for your stay,...) Staff is really friendly. Walking distance from everything. If you are a bit sportive or like walking, do the Mount Missen walking path up and down, early in the morning. Thanks to everyone for making our stay so memorable and traditional.

We wanted the ryokan experience and we certainly got it. We arrived early so able to drop off luggage at the front. First, the hotel has pick up/drop off services for/from the pier. Just contact them to provide the time and they'll be right out front with their black van to pick you up. The staff is very friendly, and had our luggage in our room by the time we came back to check-in. We had the 308/Kaede room. Wow, it was huge. There were basically 4 rooms, one western style dining room, one Japanese style dining with tatami mats, another tatami room, and a sitting room facing the Itsukushima Jinja Pagoda. It was pricey so maybe why the hotel didn't seem full but there were so much to the hotel. While you are out, they will setup the mattresses for the night. There is also a massage chair in the room, along with Yukatas you can borrow for the stay and to use while at the onsen. As for the facilities, there is so much to the hotel. It has a cafe facing the street, and a rooftop terrace that overlooks the harbor area as well as the shrine. at the upstairs floor, there is a quiet reading room, as well as several focus rooms, and at both of these, there is all you can drink soft drinks, popsicles, beer, hard liquor, and coffee. We were up in the terrace multiple times through our stay and never encountered a soul. We opted for the included breakfast which is a traditional Japanese breakfast. It wasn't the kids' cup of tea but a great experience nonetheless. The onsen was in the basement, open to the public but we only saw staff come in to use the shower, and usually had them all to ourselves. There is a channel from the room that you can view to see if there are folks in the onsens but that never seemed to be accurate. Location was remarkably convenient. It's facing the ocean and the Shopping Street was right behind it. And couple minutes walk to views of the Itsukushima Shrine. We really can't recommend this hotel enough and worth what we paid. It lived up to our expectations and desires for the full ryokan experience.