The Hiramatsu Hotels & Resorts Sengokuhara

The Hiramatsu Hotels & Resorts Sengokuhara

In Sengokuhara, a wooded pocket of Hakone four kilometers from the town center, The Hiramatsu Hotels & Resorts Sengokuhara keeps to twenty rooms across four floors, and each private bathroom fills its own tub with local spring water rather than mains supply, an unusual touch for a hotel this compact. Guests check in from three in the afternoon to individually decorated rooms with refrigerators, satellite televisions, laptop-compatible safes and designer toiletries, and can eat at the hotel's own Italian restaurant or order room service instead of heading into town. The spa runs body treatments and facials alongside a fitness center and gym, and there is a golf course and garden terrace for anyone who tires of the tub. Breakfast runs from seven thirty on weekends and eight on weekdays, finishing by ten either day, which suits early risers more than late ones. The front desk works around the clock in English and other languages, parking is free and self-serve, and the building has lift access and wheelchair accessibility throughout, including the restaurant. It suits travelers who want a small, design-led hotel with genuine spring water bathing built into the room rather than down a corridor, and an on-site Italian restaurant rather than a single breakfast room. It does not suit anyone hoping to bring a pet, since the property does not allow them, or anyone wanting a large resort rather than a twenty-room property with a single restaurant. With only twenty rooms split across four floors, the spring water filling each tub is the one detail this hotel offers that its neighbors in Sengokuhara do not. Twenty rooms in Sengokuhara, four kilometers from central Hakone, each with a private tub that fills from the local spring rather than the mains. Design-led rooms, an on-site Italian restaurant, and a spa suit couples and small groups more than pet owners or resort seekers.