Guest Room

Guest Room

All rooms have an open-air bath and a relaxing space

All guest rooms at Hanare Karoi are equipped with an open-air bath.
The rooms combine modern facilities with traditional beauty to create a relaxing atmosphere.
Please relax and spend a luxurious time with your loved ones.

Karoi Standard floor

Karoi Luxury floors

The upper floors (8th to 10th floors) of Hanare Karoi will be reborn as the “Luxury floors!”
Will re-open as a new rooms on December 13, 2024.

  • Rooms with open-air hot spring baths
    Karoi Suite “Moegi”
  • Rooms with open-air hot spring baths
    Karoi Suite “Akane”
  • Rooms with open-air hot spring baths
    Karoi Suite “Yamabuki”
  • Rooms with open-air hot spring baths
    Semi-Suite Japanese-style room
    (2 types available)
  • Rooms with open-air hot spring baths
    Twin beds Japanese-style room
  • Rooms with open-air hot spring baths
    Double bed Japanese-style room

Facilities

Facilities

Luxurious in-house facilities with a mature atmosphere

Front

Front

Once entering the hotel, you will be received by a luxurious and sophisticated space with an atmosphere of adults.
Your relaxing time at Karoi begins with a seated reception area.

Lounge

Lounge

The lounge offers a variety of drinks free of charge.
In addition, there is a footbath, a library, and a choice of yukata and samue.
In a calm atmosphere, please spend your time as you please, such as talking with your loved ones in your favorite outfit.

Variety of drinks

Lounge

Lounge

Library

Footbath

Cuisine

Cuisine

Hearty Japanese cuisine that is pleasing to the eyes.

We offer hearty dishes that you can enjoy with your eyes and tongue.
The dishes using local ingredients are not only delicious, but also carefully arranged making them colorful blissful.
In the dedicated open kitchen, hot food is served while hot and cold food is served while cold, in the most delicious state.
Please enjoy dishes that satisfy your mind and body in a relaxing time.

Open kitchen

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With all our heart, one plate at a time.

We will deliver the splendor of Japanese cuisine that brings out the terroir and season of Japan.
Please enjoy traditional and new Japanese cuisine that continues to evolve with unconstrained ideas and cooking methods using first-class ingredients from all over the country.

Hanare Karoi, Head Chef

Hanare Karoi, Head Chef

Local sake

In Shiga Prefecture, there are various sake breweries because of the excellent quality of water pouring from the mountains as well as Lake Biwa. Each brewery has a different production method and produces sake with its own unique taste.
How about drinking and comparing with the carefully selected dishes?

ImageLocal sake

Breakfast

For breakfast, you can choose either Japanese or buffet style.
We offer Japanese cuisine centered on vegetables and fish that are gentle on the stomach.
With the buffet style, you can use Yumotokan's original breakfast buffet which uses plenty of ingredients from the prefecture.
Please inform us when you make a reservation.

Breakfast Breakfast

Ryotei “Shogetsu”

Meals are served at Ryotei “Shogetsu”, a traditional Japanese restaurant.
The dishes prepared in the dedicated open kitchen will be delivered to you in the most delicious state.
Enjoy a relaxing meal in a quiet and calm space.
* We do not accept room meals.

Ryotei Shogetsu

Ryotei Shogetsu

Ryotei Shogetsu

Ryotei Shogetsu

Hot spring

Hot spring

You can relax in a natural hot spring with a long history.

Ogoto Onsen is said to have been opened by Saicho about 1,200 years ago, and since then has healed many travelers.
Today, it is loved by many people as a scenic spot by the lakeside and as a back room in Otsu and Kyoto.

Ogoto onsen

Smooth skin after the “Beautiful Skin Bath”

The quality of the hot spring is a high alkaline simple hot spring with a pH value of 9.0, and it is said to be a "hot spring for beautiful skin" that smooths the skin after bathing.
At Hanare Karoi, all guest rooms are equipped with open-air baths, so you can enjoy the hot spring to your heart's content in a private space.
Please enjoy the real natural hot spring without any added water to your heart's content.

Guest room open-air bath

Spring quality
Alkaline simple hot spring (hypotonic), hot spring temperature approx. 36°C, pH 9.0, colorless, clear and odorless
Benefits
Neuralgia, sore muscles, arthralgia, stiff shoulders, motor paralysis, bruises, chronic digestive disorder, sensitivity to cold, recovery from fatigue, etc.

Tour the different hot springs of Yumotokan

Guests staying at Hanare Karoi can also use the open-air bath and the large public bath at Yumotokan for free.
In addition to "Kobo-no-Yu" and "Sanbo-no-Yu," there are also "Gesshin-no-Yu" on the top floor and "Togensyoyo" surrounded by nature.
How about going around the baths with different atmospheres?
* It is a male-female exchange system that changes daily. For details, please check the "bathing calendar" on the following page.

Open-air bath “Togensyoyo”
Open-air bath “Gesshin-no-Yu”
Large bath with a view “Kobo-no-Yu”
Large bath with a view “Sanbo-no-Yu”

Footbath

Footbath

There is also a footbath in front of the lounge where you can easily enjoy the hot spring.
The view from the thin cut-out window is like a photograph that feels the passage of time. Please spend time talking with your loved ones in the charming footbath.

Beauty treatments

Beauty treatments

At the spa beauty salon "Yuu," you can experience Ayurveda for the first time in Ogoto Onsen. Therapists here provide thorough treatment using techniques from Sri Lanka.
How about enjoying a special relaxation experience at the hot spring?