Japan Hotel

Matsubaya Ryokan

Matsubaya Ryokan first started around 1884, when our predecessors treated a monk from at Higashi-Honganji temple.

Since then we have welcomed many guests, such as Buddhist priests, adherents, merchants, tourists and school trip students.

And now, we welcome many tourists from foreign countries.

However this wooden two-story building has become too old to prepare a comfortable and secure room for guests.

We are going to make a fresh start to keep traditional Japanese atmosphere and culture, by our guests making themselves at home by using Futon ( Japanese bed), Yukata (Japanese wear) in a Japanese Tatami-floor room.

We look forward to seeing you again in Autumn 2008..

Bathrooms

Bathroom of Japanese hotels is also different from the European. The Japanese bath (o-furo) are never washed. In the bathroom, they just enjoy the hot water! The full you will appreciate on-furo winter. Indeed, in the traditional rekanah Tokyo no heating, so before going to bed very nice dip in the hot tub, and then go to bed in a feather bed. Japanese Ryokan is often more expensive than regular hotels in Tokyo, European-style.

Rooms

Mattresses lying on the floor numbers

Non-guests also have the traditional look - floor is lined with tatami (straw mats), and balcony doors are shoji (paper covered with a thin bamboo lattice). The door leading into the room, too, can be shoji, but in recent years the safety purpose of interior doors of stronger materials. In each room there is a small table with tea accessories, for which guests can dine, as many prefer to eat in their rooms.

Features

In rekanah decided not to sleep in the beds, and the special mattresses that bed on the floor. Sometimes it brings some inconvenience to the elderly, so for people in this category will approach a modern hotel with all the amenities. In addition, the room is no bathroom - the guests have access to shared bath - ofuro. Entrance to the baths for men and women separately. First day bath use, for example, women, and the next day - men. Thus, there is an alternation. In some modernized rekanah there rooms with private bathrooms, but usually it happens infrequently, and is much more expensive.

Appearance

The interior decoration is a small ryokan hotel specific form, with characteristically curved roof. Newer buildings have a modern western look. Inside, on the first floor is a lounge area where visitors can relax and talk and watch TV (if available). The hotel is decorated in traditional Japanese style - you can see wall paintings from Qana or characters, typical drawings, and flower arrangements adorn the interior.

Food

As for the power rekane, the kitchen is also a traditional, it is called "kaiseki". Food, usually, half, and is included in the room rate. Food served in rekane, is small in size, but still their number is quite large. Most of the dishes are of a variety of seafood - fish, squid, shrimp, etc. For example, visitors to the hotel can offer to try sashimi (raw fish), and in addition to seafood - freshly harvested wild vegetables. Eating with chopsticks is, referred to as chopsticks.