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Reviews of Ryokan Hakuhou

2.5 out of 5
Ryokan Hakuhou
4-1 KamiSanjocho, Nara, Nara-ken

Reviews

8.0

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 80 out of 282 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 130 out of 282 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 59 out of 282 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 11 out of 282 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 282 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.2/10

Staff & service

7.6/10

Amenities

7.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Alexey

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The building is a bit old, but nice.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Shimako

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ferenc

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A relaxed place without the usual formalities. A great hall, themed around manga and samurais, lots of board games and many classic mangas to read (Dragonball, Death note etc., complete series).
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Alden

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rachel

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The staff were really accommodating. Foreigner friendly. The rooms were as expected and really nice.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rod

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Opal

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

Gerald

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very friendly guests with english speaking staff. Front counter allowed us to store our luggages and accomodated our requests Im going to miss Ryokan Hakuhou
Stayed 3 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Naoko

Travelled with partner, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice and cozy and just a short walk from the deer park. 10/10 recommend
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

6/10 Okay

Oded

Travelled with family
The place was very good location but not so nice
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2023

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Overpriced and impersonal
This ryokan has the basics you would need, but the price is high and The owners appear to be a family so they must be busy, but there is no warmth about the service.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Koon Kang

Travelled with family
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

David

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Tatami room guest house in Nara
Great location in Nara. Tatami room with futons and private toilet. Shower and sento (soaking bath) downstairs. The guest house is halfway between a ryokan andlow cost hotel. Old and a little shabby, but very inexpensive for area.Easy walk to train stations and todaiji temple.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Larry, Montreal

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Centrally located hotel
Ryokan Hakuhou is in a great location. It’s close the station, local restaurants and shopping. The hotel is clean, and the rooms are comfortable. The staff is very helpful. The WiFi is ok, it was better in the lobby than on the 3rd floor. Overall a good hotel, I would stay again.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2019

8/10 Good

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Basic but comfortable ryokan in a great location
A basic but comfortable ryokan in a great location - right in the heart of Nara. Reasonable price. Front lobby reception was friendly and efficient with a nice sitting and reading area. No restaurant but lots of places nearby. We had a spacious and spotless 10 tatami room with en suite bath and toilet so never did use the communal bath. Room had no chairs - just cushions and the futon so eating in room was a bit uncomfortable. Overall I was pleased with our stay and would probably stay there again.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Kylie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Do try it!
Traditional ryokan. We had our own toilet, but you use a shared shower/onsen. Great little sitting area. And a magical massage chair!
Stayed 2 nights in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

Sabrina

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Host and staff were very polite and helpful. Location near Deer park and walkable to both train stations.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
We opted for 2 twin beds and it was amazing. We had a separate balcony and separate dining area. They gave us welcome gifts and hot tea. The beds were soft which was a pleasant change from the business hotels. It had a private women bath separate from the male bath.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
It’s a Japanese guest house. The futtons were not as comfortable as we had on other locations. The air conditioning was noisy. The overall experience was not good.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

6/10 Okay

Duk

Liked: Staff & service
Good onsen bath and overall ok.
Overall ok for old ryokan. Excellent onsen bath, though. No sitting chairs in the room. Close to stores, shopping, and Nara park.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Anonymous

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice ryokan in the centre, near sights but only 10 mins from the station
Stayed 3 nights in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

Veronique

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice experience of ryokan in a beautiful little city with incredible temples

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Convenient,clean and authentic Japanese family rer
This is an excellent experience for the busy traveller.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2018

8/10 Good

Hoi

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
I am not used to sit on the floor for a long time. The tv in the room was very old style.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Decent
Very well situated, pleasant, convenient stay

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Karen & Ricardo, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect location
Great hotel. Close to shops, restaurants and Nara Park. Very clean accommodation and helpful staff. Would stay here again!

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location and bath!
This is a decent ryokan a close walk to the Kintetsu station and Nara koen, near tons of restaurants.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Genuine Ryokan
Beautiful stone onsen, with wonderful staff. Suggest arriving early to enjoy the space, and not too late as the staff is not always present.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice family friendly place to stay in Nara
This was a great little place to stay. It is quiet and in a nice area with many close by shops and restaurants. It is also close to Nara Park and the railroad stations. We chose the traditional tatami mat family room with the private bath. It was a nice big room with plenty of space for 5 people (4 adults and 1 child) and all our luggage. There are two "bath houses" for both men and women downstairs in the main lobby area. My husband loved going down and sitting in the "hot tub" after walking all day. We also loved the massage chair in the main lobby too after sleeping on the tatami mats. Overall a nice, quiet, clean, family friendly place to stay.

4/10 Poor

Ellis

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Altogether disappointing.
I wish I could rate this higher, because the owners were quite nice. But this was not a ryokan. It was a short-term boarding house. We stayed in a ten tatami mat room, which had a low table, and a "cubicle" bathroom - a plastic encased tiny room, with a toilet and a bathtub. Similarly, it advertised an "onset" - it was a very small, musty communal bath. The place was dingy - clean enough. But for $182, ridiculous. For $60, it would have been quite fine. But not priced as a luxury inn.

10/10 Excellent

Karen, China

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Convenient location

10/10 Excellent

Chris, switzerland

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice ryokan in the center of Nara
We stayed one night in a japanese style room with private bathroom, which i found large with respect to japanese standards. The staff was very helpful and very nice. They made a reservation for us at a restaurent in Kobe where we were going the next day and told us all about the lantern festival that was happening. The ryokan is also very well situated between the train station and the Nara-koen park. I found its public paths very relaxing and very well decorated. I would recommend this establishment to anyone who was looking for a ryokan in Nara.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Great location but expensive for Saturday night
Location fantastic - close to JR station and easy walking to the park. Room was very clean. Futon very thin and needed extra padding from duvet in cupboard. Ensuite toilet but communal bathroom downstairs. We found this stay very expensive for what we got.

8/10 Good

Michelle , Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
In a good location and staff friendly.
The hotel is in central location - walk to Deer Park etc. Nara is a beautiful place, one of my favourites in Japan. The hotel is old but the room was clean and Japanese style bath was really clean and enjoyable. The man running the place was also very friendly.

6/10 Okay

Frank, New Orleans

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
cheap
It was fairly cheap. You get what you pay for. I was charged extra at the desk because my child was 14 years old .... according to the staff, a "child" is 12 years old ~ not according to the reservation site where I made the reservations. The real bummer is that I was charged an extra 2,000 yen when I checked in because of this minor discrepancy. I suspect that the clerk must have felt guilty in the end, however, because he upgraded our room and gave us a room with a private bath. My "child" appreciated that.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
GREAT Family Run Ryokan!
Perfect location for walking, shopping and restaurants. Family run business provides that almost at home feel with all the professional touches.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Too old for sleeping on the futon, l found, and no seating. However, it is a ryokan!

10/10 Excellent

Scarlet

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Leslie, Chicago

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Pleasant overnight stay, great location
We had a great overnight stay in Nara at the Ryokan Hakuhou. Our room was traditional but with a western toilet. The floor was tatami covered. There was a low table and floor chairs, yukatas and slippers. It was very neat, clean, spacious and quiet. Our only complaint was that the futons were very thin indeed and, being older, we were not yet accustomed to sleeping on the floor. We did not sleep comfortably. Otherwise, the ryokan was great. Inbetween the train station and Nara Park, it was a quick and easy walk to both. Our host at the ryokan was also pleasant and helpful.

6/10 Okay

Andy, Dubai

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Hotel in downtown Nara
OK hotel on one of Nara's main streets. Handy for restaurants, tourist spots and about 500m from JR Nara station. Not sure why it's a 'ryokan' - did not provide any meals, and only basic spa baths. Room was ok but quite small. Shared bathroom facilities, not private.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice Ryoken
Basic Ryoken. Friendly staff and close to the train station and center of town.

8/10 Good

Kevin, Redruth. Cornwall UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nara in Cherry Blossom season
Located very close to Nara JR station and main visitor sites the ryokan was very good place to stay for our two nights in Nara. The staff were very good and the hotel was very popular wth Japanese and foreigners alike. The only down side was the intermittent wifi when planning our next day.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nara hotel
Great hotel but expensive.

8/10 Good

Greg, Wellington

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very nice ryokan
First of all, if you never slept on the floor or have back problems, think again about going to any ryokan... This one is amazing! Awesome staff, great communal bath and the room are the size advertised (and slightly snell of cabbage due to the tatamis but it's ok) If you can, put some extra layers under/on the mattress. It helps a lot to sleep better!

10/10 Excellent

David, Seattle

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location for family of four
Nice place for family of four to stay. Great location. Traditional Japanese sleeping on floor. Small but good bathroom. Able to leave luggage before and after check-in. Would certainly stay here again

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
nice little ryokan, good location
the ryokan is located conveniently to the JR and Keihan Rail stations. It was walking distance to all the sights we wanted to visit. The rooms were decent sized (we had 5 people) and very clean. I would recommend it :)