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[Awara Onsen , Awara Onsen ]

Founded in 1884, this is a long-established inn that has existed throughout Awara's history.
Enjoy Japanese culture to your heart's content in the main building, designed by the renowned sukiya-style carpenter, the late Masaya Hirata.

Image: Suite room "Taikan"

Tsuruya pride and joy, the suite room "Taikan," features an indoor bath and an open-air bath with natural hot spring water, a 6-tatami mat tea room, and a 15-tatami mat main room.

Image: Special room with open-air bath "Kangetsu"

The open-air bath in the special room "Kangetsu" has natural hot spring water.

Image: Onsen Tamago

In the garden with a foot bath, you can try some free hot spring eggs. The fact that you can make hot spring eggs is proof that the water is 100% natural, without adding water or heating.

Tsuraya is a long-established inn founded in 1884. The main building was designed and constructed by the late Masaya Hirata, a famous master carpenter of the sukiya-style building, and is in the style of a teahouse and a traditional Japanese restaurant.
The Sukiya-style guest rooms, which express the concept of wabi-sabi in every detail, each have their own unique style, and the elegant atmosphere embodies the Japanese spirit. You can enjoy the comfort of a "real Japanese inn" surrounded by the heartfelt hospitality of the shoe-shiner, head clerk, waitress, and hostess.
With the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen to Fukui, the hotel has added special rooms with semi-open-air baths that flow directly from the source, the 100m2 "Sokaku" and the 60m2 "Kotobuki". The spacious rooms are furnished with high-quality furniture and furnishings, and while in the room, you can enjoy not only the hot springs but also alcoholic beverages to your heart's content. There are six types of guest rooms. The suite room "Taikan", which features an indoor bath and open-air bath with free-flowing hot spring water, a 6-tatami mat tea room, and a 15-tatami mat main room, and the special room "Kangetsu", which comes with a free-flowing rock open-air bath with hot spring water, are also continuing to attract constant support.
The best part of traveling is being able to enjoy the atmosphere of the hot springs in the large public baths "Fuku-no-yu" and "Ashi-no-yu" which are alternated for men and women, and the private bath "Tsuru-no-yu". You can enjoy the atmosphere to the fullest with the "100% natural hot spring water flowing freely from the source of the three hot springs on the premises. In the garden of the guest salon, you can also experience a foot bath and free "hot spring egg making" with the hot spring water flowing freely from the source.

Image: New guest room “Sotsuru”

The new guest room "Sokaku" was opened in March 2024. It is a spacious 100㎡ room with high-quality furniture and furnishings. This room comes with a living room where you can relax with wine, sake, local beer, coffee, etc.

Photo: The semi-open-air bath in the new "Sokaku" guest room

The semi-open-air bath in the new "Sokaku" guest room. You can enjoy the hot spring water straight from the source whenever you like.
5. The new guest room "Jutsuru" opened in March 2024. It is a spacious 60㎡ room.

Image: New guest room “Jutsuru”

The new guest room "Jutsuru" opened in March 2024. It is a spacious 60 square meters.

Image: Large public bath "Ashi no Yu"

The large bath, "Ashi no Yu," is filled with elegance and the beauty of the hot springs.

The attraction is the food
Enjoy the delicious flavors of Echizen with creative kaiseki cuisine that is embodied in the heart of each and every guest.

Echizen is a treasure trove of flavors, rich with the bounty of the mountains and the sea. For dinner, enjoy a creative kaiseki meal, which changes monthly and uses seasonal local ingredients. Dislikes extravagant presentation, and values quality over quantity, the dishes are beautifully presented on Echizen ware and Kawada lacquerware, and are brought out one by one, hot dishes hot and cold dishes cold.
The creative kaiseki meals are available in three varieties: "Tsuru," which offers the most exquisite delicacies and is limited to two groups per day; "Kame," where you can choose between fish or meat for your main dish; and "Fuku," which offers a masterpiece made with the chef's heart and soul.
Limited-time gourmet meal options available from March to November include the "Wakasa Beef Kaiseki Meal," which allows you to savor the melt-in-your-mouth flavor of brand beef, and the "Abalone Kaiseki Meal," which allows you to enjoy abalone as sashimi, steak, and shabu-shabu, which are sure to impress gourmets.
From November to March, the "Echizen Local Crab Kaiseki Set" is extremely popular, featuring live yellow-tagged "Echizen Crab". Plans are available for one person or two people, and you can choose to have the crab cooked as sashimi, grilled in the shell, tempura, or boiled whole. Breakfast is a gentle taste of local Awara koshihikari rice, standard dried fish, and nutritious vegetables.
For dinner and breakfast, you can dine at the private dining room "Kokaku" with chairs and tables. You can enjoy your meal without any worries in a completely private room that respects your privacy. You can also request private dining rooms "Tsuki" and "Hana".

Image: Wakasa beef kaiseki meal

The limited-time "Wakasa Beef Kaiseki Zen" allows you to fully enjoy Wakasa Beef, a brand of beef that Fukui Prefecture is proud of nationwide.

Photo: Private dining room "Kokaku"

"Kokaku" is a private dining restaurant with 16 completely private rooms.

More Information
building Main building: 2-story wooden structure, Annex: 3-story wooden structure
Rooms (Total 22 rooms) / 16 Japanese-style rooms, 4 Japanese-Western style rooms, 2 with open-air baths
meal Dinner: Japanese cuisine and kaiseki cuisine, Breakfast: Japanese cuisine
Facilities Baths: Large public bath, open-air bath, private bath, foot bath (all with natural hot spring water), banquet halls (6 rooms, 8-90 tatami mats), private dining room (13 rooms, 70 seats), club, gallery, shop
Fee 34,100 yen - 132,000 yen (tax included, bathing tax not included)
Check-in and check-out Check-in 15:00 Check-out 10:00
Wifi The whole building
Smoking and non-smoking No smoking in the entire building, designated smoking areas available
Hot spring quality Sodium, calcium, chloride spring
Facility information / Access
location 4-60 Onsen, Awara City, Fukui Prefecture, 910-4104
Railway Get off at Awara Onsen Station on the JR Hokuriku Shinkansen line, then take a taxi for about 15 minutes.
bus From JR Awara Onsen Station, take the bus bound for "Awara Yunomachi" and walk for about 3 minutes.
parking 30 passenger cars and 1 large car (EV car charger: available)
Pick-up and drop-off From JR Awara Onsen Station (reservation required)
TEL 0776-77-2001
FAX 0776-78-7002
URL https://www.awara-turuya.jp/

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