All rooms are high-grade spaces with open-air baths filled with Gora hot spring water.
Hospitality that is intricately put together like Hakone craftsmanship.
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All rooms at Madokano-mori are equipped with a beautiful open-air hot spring bath that uses water from Gora. No matter when you visit, you can enjoy a "self-contained one-room" trip.
Madokano-mori is enveloped in warm light that shines through the space. In front of the entrance is a nostalgic waterwheel.
There are two bedrock bathing spaces, each with three beds. The set temperatures are 50℃ and 45℃, respectively. They are great for detoxifying.
All rooms are high-grade spaces with open-air baths filled with Gora hot spring water.
Hospitality that is intricately put together like Hakone craftsmanship.
In the forests of Hakone, far from the hustle and bustle, we hope you will remove the sharp corners in your heart and return home with a "rounded heart." This is the wish of the inn, embodied in the name. Gorahanaougi Madokano-mori. Looking up as you pass through the entrance, you will see thick beams and a counter made of ancient zelkova wood from several thousand years ago. A gentle lobby space woven with wood and tatami mats awaits you. Take a break with a cup of brown sugar tea, and your holiday in the forest will begin, guided by the scent of wood and tatami mats.
The guest room building has an open ceiling. The 20 guest rooms are located along a tatami-floored corridor. The guest room doors are double-doored to prevent sound from leaking out, so the inn calls it the "Corridor of Silence." No two guest rooms have the same layout, so repeat guests often seek out rooms that are different from the others.
There are five "suite rooms." For example, one of the corner rooms on the second floor is the largest at the inn, with a bedroom and dining room in two rooms, one 8 tatami mats and one 6 tatami mats. From the room, decorated with furniture made by Hida artisans and a cedar-framed Simmons bed, you can enjoy a view of Mt. Myojin. You will also be interested in the room equipped with the Human Evolution Bed designed by IWATA, a long-established furniture manufacturer in Kyoto, and the room produced by the magazine Discover Japan. There are also standard rooms, deluxe rooms, and Japanese and Western bed types, all of which are equally comfortable. Inside the building, you can wear 100% cotton yukata or double-gauze samue. No consideration is given to comfort.
Room entrance sign.
No matter which room you choose, you can enjoy the hot springs. All 20 rooms are equipped with beautiful open-air baths that draw on hot spring water from the hotel's own source. The Gora hot springs that spring up on the premises are seawater that was sealed underground in ancient times and then heated by magma and erupted. Located at an altitude of about 600m, Gora feels cold even in summer, so the spring water keeps you warm for a long time, making it very popular.
The open-air bath is filled with hot spring water from two private springs located on the premises. You can enjoy the healing power of the hot springs and forest bathing while feeling as if you are surrounded by forest.
With your Hakone crafted room key in hand, you head to the large public bath. You descend the stairs, which were designed to resemble Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto. The open-air bath overlooking the Hakone mountains is very comfortable. Your skin is enveloped in hot spring water with a different quality to that in the guest rooms. This is a pleasure that can only be found at an inn that has two private hot spring sources. After the bath, you can cool down with some cold herbal tea. The rooms are also equipped with Madokano-mori original blend of herbal tea.
For skin maintenance after a bath, we recommend trying the "treatment that corresponds to the phases of the moon." An unprecedented retreat menu is available.
The indoor bath in the large communal bath. The overflowing Goura Onsen contains a lot of sulfate and carbonate ions, so your skin will stay moisturized for a long time after bathing.
At the beauty salon "MORI," treatments are given according to the phases of the moon, inspired by the fact that the gravitational pull of the moon causes the tides. There are retreat menus you've never experienced before, such as blood and lymph treatments around the full moon, when the gravitational pull of the moon is at its most powerful, and detox treatments around the new moon, when excess substances are expelled. Why not give it a try?
Enjoy a picture scroll-like Kyoto Kaiseki meal in Hakone, blessed with ingredients
Meals can be enjoyed in a completely separate and private space, whether in your room or at the dining area. For dinner, you can enjoy a Kyoto-style kaiseki meal like a picture scroll, made with fresh fish, Japanese beef, and vegetables, carefully selected by experts in each field, and prepared with great care in the kitchen. The color, aroma, texture, and presentation of the food are all exquisite, and you will be truly amazed by the chef's knife skills and the sharpness of the flavor. The Hida beef prepared as a special order dish is carefully selected and procured in limited quantities, which is unique to an inn based in Hida. It is said to be the highest quality Hida beef that you will hardly ever see in Hakone.
Chefs who have trained in Kyoto search for the finest ingredients from all over Japan and prepare Kyoto Kaiseki course meals that incorporate the spirit of Kyoto cuisine. This is a delicacy that can only be found at this inn.
A private dining room with a sense of privacy.
The sashimi includes spring cherry blossom sea bream (from Odawara), spear squid (from Odawara), wild bluefin tuna (from Oma, Aomori), striped shrimp (from Numazu), ark shell (from the Sea of Japan), and more, depending on the season. You will surely be satisfied with the outstanding freshness of the seafood, which is sourced with a focus on natural ingredients. The garnishing is also locally produced, using mainly vegetables from the foot of Mishima in Hakone, as well as real wasabi, radish, and carrots.
Indoor dining allows you to dine in your room. The table seats are gentle on your knees.
The dimly lit storehouse bar "Kodama" will create a nighttime atmosphere. Why not enjoy the inn's original cocktail, the vodka-based "Maru no Mori," at the 5m Zelkova counter? This inn is a combination of hospitality as intricately as Hakone craftsmanship. Before you know it, you'll find yourself feeling relaxed and mellow.
The storehouse bar "Kodama" also offers Cuban cigars.
More Information
| building | Reinforced concrete 3-story building |
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| Rooms | (20 rooms in total) / 20 Japanese-Western style rooms with open-air baths |
| meal | Dinner: Japanese cuisine (Kyoto Kaiseki) Breakfast: Japanese cuisine (Japanese set menu) |
| Facilities | Baths: Large bath, open-air bath, bedrock bath, banquet hall (1 room), bar, shop, beauty salon |
| Fee | 41,000 to 88,000 yen (tax included, bathing tax not included) |
| Check-in and check-out | Check-in 15:00 Check-out 11:00 |
| Wifi | The whole building |
| Smoking and non-smoking | All rooms are non-smoking and there are designated smoking areas |
| Hot spring quality | Sodium chloride, sulfate, bicarbonate hot spring (pH 8.3), sodium chloride hot spring |
Facility information / Access
| location | 1320-862 Gora, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa Prefecture, 250-0408 |
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| Railway | Get off at Gora Station on the Hakone Tozan Railway Line, transfer to the Hakone Tozan Cable Car, and get off at Sounzan Station |
| car | From the Odawara-Atsugi Road Hakoneguchi IC, take National Route 1 and Prefectural Route 734 for about 30 minutes. |
| parking | 10 passenger cars |
| Shuttle bus | From Gora Station or Sounzan Station (no reservation required, please call after arrival) |
| TEL | 0460-82-4100 |
| FAX | 0460-82-7900 |
| URL | https://gorahanaougi.com/madokanomori |