Laforet Ito Onsen Yunoniwa

The hotel room is spacious. it has a separate bath area and toilet area. I booked a room with western bedroom with a Japanese style tatami living room and private bath tub. The spacing is very good and enjoyable. It also provide public hot spring bath in ad hotel facilities.

The room was very spacious with both a bedroom part and a tatami room. The private bath was the best! Really big and a good temperature which you could adjust to an extent. It was such a good design! The separate basin area and separate toilet were also appreciated. The staff were very polite and welcomed us with a Japanese jelly treat and tea upon arrival. The hotel itself feels very spacious and has a beautiful outdoor pond with carp. We didn't go to the onsen but it seemed to be very popular. It was a bit more expensive relative to the rest of the accommodation for our time in Japan but it was still well-priced, especially for the private bath and onsen! We really enjoyed Ito as well. We could easily walk to restaurants and other parts of town including the station to do day trips to other parts of the Izu Peninsula.

We booked a room with hot spring bath and it's really spacious. The staffs are polite and nice. If you want your room to be cleaned every day during your stay, you can leave your room key to the front desk when you go out. There are one or two convenience stores around and a supermarket within 8-mins walking distance. If you take a taxi between the Ito JR station and hotel, it's just a flag-fall fare around 830 yen (680+VAT, if I understand correctly)

The room was very big, with separate Japanese-style "living room" and two western-style beds in their own bedroom. We also had a private Onsen bath in our room. It felt like luxury for a not-so-terribly-high price. The restaurant was great but we only had breakfast there. The hotel Onsen was clean and nice too but it was our first true Onsen experience so it's hard to compare. Staff didn't speak much English but was very nice and helpful. We profited from the seaside location of Ito for swimming in the ocean, both at Ito beach and at the Penguin beach nearby. We also rented a car for a day and visited Mount Omuro and Lake Ashi (Hakone), which allowed us to drive through the mountains and have wonderful views of the Pacific, the countryside and Mount Fuji that showed up right in front of us several times. I chose Ito as an alternative to Hakone and both my wife and me were very happy about this choice!

Overall the place was nice. The only down side was the room’s air conditioner only allowed heat or just fan. Although it was spring, there was a few hot days we wanted to turn on the cool air but it wasn’t an option. We even asked the front desk and they said it’s not possible… so it was quite warm whenever we are in the room Also, please upgrade the hair dryers in the hotel 😭 they are too weak!