여성 / 40 - 49 세 / 러시아 
 Best ryokan I ' ve ever seen : delicious meal , large nice room , beautiful japanese clothes , access to 7 hot springs . It ' s definitely worth money you spend on it . 10 \ 10 . 
 Top service and amazing food ! Very customer focused and absolutely worth the cost . A very highly recommended place for a relaxing retreat . 
 What can we say ? This place was AWESOME in every way . We hope to visit again soon ! 
 We loved everything about our stay at Yamamotoya . A beautiful room looking out over a garden , superb food , excellent and attentive service , and great fun to put on our yukata each evening and stroll down the street to sample one or two of the public onsen . Each bathhouse is distinctive , and Yamamotoya provided us with a pass that allowed us to visit any of them . We had the good fortune to visit Kinosaki during cherry blossom season , and it was truly magical . 
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 여성 / 30 - 39 세 / 사우디아라비아 
 Very nice hotel , excellent service and food . Only disadvantage : very early check out . 
 Perfect location in the center of the city closed to all public baths . The service is excellent and the food very good . 
 We had a lovely stay at Yamamotoya . The area is beautiful and comes alive at night and in the early morning . The private onsen is much better equipped than the public ones . We got to know our host at dinner ( they were german / japanese / english trilingual ) which was a really pleasant experience , and . . the food ! There was so much of it , and it was all really nice . We tried two of the beers produced at the micro - brewery there as well , both were very good . Breakfast was also huge and lovely . The futons were comfy , I now want to get one of the blankets as they were awesome , and the room had a nice area where you could sit and watch the river and listen to people walk past in their geta . Speaking of which , the loaned Yukata and Geta were a lot of fun to navigate in ! The only downside was that you could hear people walking / moving on the floor above , including quite late at night . Overall , we really enjoyed our stay and would have liked to stay a bit longer , we will hopefully return . 
 First I must complement the Japanican website . Having to pay upfront is a little uncomfortable but I ended up going with this site for majority of my Japanese accomodations for this trip . I went to this ryokan straight after a ryokan in Kyoto so this enabled me to make some comparisons . I slept better ( even though I could not discern any differences in the mattress ) , food was better ( crab dinner had enough crab dishes to warrant the title ) , and service was military like polite . 
 I thought it interesting that ryokan guests with their signature yukatas were treated differently at the onsen . We were allowed to simply take off our wooden shoes and the onsen staff were able to find it back for us ( I presume based on our yukata ) . 
 Onsen ryokan around New Year is expensive . Very expensive . Still I thought it worthwile experience .