Hotel Urashima

This is a large hotel, and a lot to explore. Make sure you ask for rooms in the middle - some rooms may have blocked view.

Loved this hotel so much! There are 5 different onsens (including two amazing cave onsens) and a garden and a deck at level 30+ and restaurants, souvenir shops and a Lawsons in the hotel itself. The downside is that it is only reachable by a short boat ride on a very adorable turtle boat from 7 to 7 at certain intervals so you’ll need to time your itineraries very precisely. However, I did enjoy coming back earlier from a long day of hiking at Kumano Kodo and relaxing in the different onsens, which were a big highlight of my trip. Also make sure to dine at Ihura Sushi at Kii-Katsuura, which has amazing sushi.

Expected more. There was no instruction in how to get there! We had to search on website and it wasn’t even accurate. The hotel cannot be reached by car but the website said we could reach by car. In reality we had to park at a certain car park spot which is far away from hotel and hop on the hotel bus, then get on the ferry. Staff english was very poor as well. The hotel was very outdated. But nice view.