Amanemu

On Google Hotels, read on 1 October 2026 for 2 adults, a night cost 446,592 yen on 2 October, 765,600 yen on 11 October and 854,912 yen on 15 October, the dearest of the year; 740,064 yen on 3 November, 382,800 yen on 3 December and 803,872 yen on 31 December 2026; then 382,800 yen on 5 January, 510,400 yen on 6 April, 637,984 yen on 4 May and 382,800 yen on 1 July 2027. The cheapest night, 382,800 yen, is about €2,147 at the ECB rate of 30 September.

Month by month, the cheapest night is 382,800 yen from December to March and in July and August, 446,592 in October, November and June, 433,840 in May and 510,400 in April, the dearest month; a typical night runs from 395,552 yen in January and February to 548,672 in April. Nothing was priced for September 2027. Google shows the cheapest room free that night: for 2 October its offers named the Mori Suite at 446,600 yen, the Sora Suite at 510,400 and the Nagi Suite at 574,200, and no villa.

The figures include tax and service: the seller’s link for 2 October counts 96,592 yen of them within 446,592, about 350,000 yen plus the 16% service charge and 10% consumption tax the spa menu prints. For 11 October Tripadvisor showed USD 4,652 before tax; MICHELIN gave USD 2,414.35 a night for 29 October, USD 3,080.72 with taxes and fees, on a rate with breakfast only.

For stays from 1 June 2026 booked on or after 14 May: the car to and from Kashikojima station, breakfast and dinner every day (drinks excluded), one private experience per night from a set list, afternoon oyatsu, welcome amenities, drinks in the room including alcohol, and the onsen baths, steam rooms, outdoor pool, yoga studio and gym (accommodation, experiences). Spa treatments, golf and the private onsen pavilions are extra.

Bookings made before 14 May include breakfast only, and so do some third-party rates: MICHELIN’s rate for 29 October 2026, read on 1 October, lists breakfast alone, and Virtuoso describes breakfast as the inclusion. Google’s card marks breakfast and the airport shuttle as extra charges; on Aman’s own pages breakfast is included, and so is the station car, while the airport limousine is arranged and priced on request.

Yes, now: breakfast and dinner come with every stay booked since 14 May 2026, drinks apart. There is one restaurant, for breakfast, lunch and dinner, cooking Japanese food with some international dishes from Ise-Shima produce, Matsusaka beef, spiny lobster and abalone from Ago Bay (dining). Dinner is a set course, Ise-Shima Roman or Nemu, with a charcoal-grilled main or a hot pot for 2 or more (dinner menu); lunch is à la carte, the Matsusaka sirloin tagliata at 13,000 on the menu. The bar, beside the pool, pours Japanese craft beers. The autumn menu runs to 9 December 2026; opening hours are not printed.

Guests praise the Matsusaka beef and, often, breakfast, which is ordered from the menu, as much as you like. Several reviews from 2025 and 2026 weigh the dinner against its price.

By train to Kashikojima, the end of the Kintetsu line. From Kintetsu-Nagoya the Shimakaze leaves at 10:25 and arrives at 12:27, 5,060 yen for an adult, and as a rule does not run on Thursdays; from Osaka-Namba it costs 5,460 yen and from Kyoto 6,150 (Kintetsu, timetable of 14 March 2026). Reckon about 2.5 hours from Osaka and 3 from Kyoto. From Chubu Centrair airport, the Meitetsu to Nagoya takes 30 minutes; from Tokyo, the Shinkansen to Nagoya about 95 (getting here).

At Kashikojima the hotel’s car is waiting: 10.2 km, 16 minutes on OpenStreetMap, 20 by Aman’s reckoning. By road from the airport it is 158 km, about 3 hours. From Nagoya to Kashikojima the Kintetsu limited express takes 1 hour 58 minutes to 2 hours 12 minutes, according to Kintetsu’s timetable, and the helicopter from the airport takes 25 minutes, according to Aman’s getting-here page and fact sheet, all read on 15 October 2026.

From Kashikojima station, yes: the round trip in the hotel’s car comes with every stay (accommodation). From the airport, Amanemu arranges a limousine or a private helicopter that lands at the resort, but publishes no price for either (getting here); Google’s «airport shuttle: extra charge» refers to that, not to the station car.

The inner shrine, the Naikū, is 29.5 km by road, 35 minutes by car, and the outer shrine, the Gekū, 31.5 km, 39 minutes (OpenStreetMap routing); the hotel’s experience guide says about 45 minutes. A guided half day at the shrines is one of the private experiences the rate includes, one per night (experiences).

An Aman resort, the group’s second in Japan, opened in March 2016 (Condé Nast Traveller), modelled on the ryokan and built around onsen bathing, in Ise-Shima National Park. Google lists it as a 5-star hotel; the MICHELIN Guide gives it 3 Keys.

Aman lists 24 suites of 99 m² and 4 villa categories, but never says how many villas there are. Condé Nast Traveller and TravelSort say 8, Foray Travels 6, Kiwi Collection and Condé Nast Traveller’s first review in 2016 4; MICHELIN counts 32 rooms, Japanican 28, and a guest in June 2026 wrote of 8 villas and 24 suites. The «Nemu Resort Hotel Nemu» on Expedia is another hotel, not Amanemu.

All of them. Each suite has a private onsen bath with twin vanities, fed from nearby springs; the Tsuki Villa has a separate pavilion across its garden with a 45 m² indoor and outdoor onsen, the Mori, Sora and Nagi villas a private onsen of 28 m² (accommodation). The water comes out at about 60 °C, a guest wrote in December 2024, and needs some 2 hours to cool. The spa adds 2 private onsen pavilions, booked for up to 3 hours, and the shared thermal pools (spa menu).

The suites all measure 99 m², with a king bed or 2 singles: the Mori faces the garden, the Sora looks through the trees towards the bay (MICHELIN calls it a partial sea view), the Nagi has the full view of Ago Bay. The villas, with 2 bedrooms of 70 m² each, take the same names: Tsuki and Mori look over gardens, Sora sees part of the bay, Nagi all of it; each villa adds a kitchen and a private garden (villas).

Every villa has a living area of 61.8 m², about 62, according to the official villa pages (Mori, Sora, Nagi, Tsuki), read on 15 October 2026. The Tsuki measures 381 m², according to its official page, read on 15 October 2026.

The Aman Spa covers 2,000 m² around a thermal-spring garden with daybeds and 2 open-air onsen pools at 36–42 °C, where swimwear is required (wellness, spa menu). There are 2 private onsen pavilions, 4 treatment suites, an Aqua Movement suite for water treatments, a dry sauna at 80–90 °C, a steam room at 40–45 °C, a gym and a glass-walled yoga studio with an outdoor deck.

Treatments include Aman’s Grounding, Purifying and Nourishing rituals of 60 or 90 minutes, shin kyu acupuncture and moxibustion of 60 to 120 minutes, watsu and Yakuyu, a herbal onsen, with Aman Skincare, pearl powder and seaweed. Prices are in yen with service and tax included; the figures are not in the menu’s text. Condé Nast Traveller writes of «two outdoor pools at different temperatures».

For hotel guests the thermal spring, steam rooms, outdoor pool, yoga studio and gym come with every stay; treatments and the private onsen pavilions are paid (accommodation). No day pass or spa access for non-residents is published on the hotel’s site, its spa menu or Aman’s pages.

Spa facilities and the thermal spring from 8am to 10pm, last entry 9pm; the private onsen from 8am to 10pm, last booking 8.30pm; the gym and yoga studio from 7am to 10pm. Treatments run from 10am to 9.30pm, last booking 8.30pm, on the wellness page; the spa menu says 10am to 10pm. Treatments are best booked ahead, on extension 24, and the spa asks for 6 hours’ notice to cancel.

An outdoor infinity pool of 33 m with daybeds along the water, looking over the grounds to Ago Bay (Traveller Made, The Luxury Travel Expert); Aman says only «outdoor swimming pool». It is heated, according to Traveller Made, read on 15 October 2026, and a Tripadvisor tag; Aman’s own pages give no temperature; a guest in April 2026 found it heated but a little cold outdoors that month, and another found it closed in winter. The spa’s onsen pools stay at 36–42 °C every day.

No closure is published: Aman sells offers to the end of 2027, and Google priced 319 of the 395 nights it showed from 2 October 2026, the last on 27 August 2027. Spring and autumn are the seasons usually advised, April to June and September to November (Asian Geographical Expeditions); a guest in May 2025 suggested avoiding summer for the insects. Typhoons run from May to October, peaking in August and September, and October is the wettest month, 273 mm on average (Climate-Data.org).

The beach at Goza is open for swimming only from 1 July to 31 August (Shima Tourism Association), the ama journey runs from May to October, and the outdoor pool has been found cold or shut in winter. Check-in is at 3pm, check-out at noon.

Yes, and the 2-bedroom villas, for up to 6, suit families (Condé Nast Traveller). With Family Escape, until 31 March 2027, a third guest in a suite or a fifth in a villa stays free from age 12, with an extra bed; Curators of Travel counts guests of 12 and over as adults. Spa treatments, the gym and yoga start at 16; children aged 4 to 12 may not use the thermal pools between 8am and 5pm, infants in nappies not at all, and under-16s need an adult (spa menu).

There is a Kids Academy and babysitting. No minimum age to stay and no price for a younger child’s extra bed is printed.

Yes. Ceremonies take place in the gardens of the Arrival Pavilion with the resort booked out, in a villa’s garden for smaller ones, or over a weekend with the whole resort to yourselves (celebrations). The restaurant seats 50, the sunken terrace 50, or 70 standing, the library 10. No prices are published.

The 2026–27 festive programme ends the year with a Countdown Party in the Lounge on 31 December, from 11.30pm to 12.30am: Japanese drums, toshikoshi soba, Champagne and fireworks, weather permitting. Christmas dinner is served on 24 and 25 December, from 5.30pm to 9pm, and osechi, the New Year breakfast, on 1 January 2027 from 7am to 10.30am (festive brochure). No separate New Year’s Eve gala dinner, menu or price is published; for stays booked from 14 May 2026, dinner is already in the rate.

4 on the hotel’s own page, read on 1 October 2026: Complimentary Spend, a credit of 30,000 yen per suite stay or 60,000 per villa stay for 2 nights or more, until 30 September 2027; Family Escape, a third guest in a suite or a fifth in a villa, aged 12 or over, free with an extra bed, 2 nights or more, until 31 March 2027; the Golf Exclusive; and Aman Japan Journey, 2 nights or more at each of 3 Aman properties in a row, until 31 December 2027. Aman’s group page also lists a villa offer, a third night free with breakfast, that the hotel’s page does not show. No price is printed for any of them.

Yes: the Amanemu Golf Exclusive, until 31 March 2027, adds to a night’s stay 18 holes at Nemu Golf Club with lunch, a cart and club storage, and 60 minutes in a private onsen pavilion at the spa. Book at least 14 days ahead; there is no refund if you do not play, lunch may cost extra depending on the menu, and children’s use of the private onsen costs 6,500 yen with tax and service. The price shows only on the booking page.

Wi-Fi is free in the suites and the public areas. Tipping is not expected in Japan (Japan National Tourism Organization), and the 16% service charge is already in the prices. The hotel changes currency, according to Google; which cards it takes is not published.

No resort fee appears in any source we read. The hotel’s prices carry a 16% service charge and 10% consumption tax: the spa menu says so, and Google’s nightly figures include them. An undated rate note on Secret Luxury Travel still gives 15% for service. No local accommodation tax is mentioned anywhere we read.

Yes: free parking, valet and charging points for electric cars, according to Google and Tripadvisor; Condé Nast Traveller mentions accessible parking and wheelchair-friendly paths. Aman’s own pages do not mention parking.

Not at the resort itself: it stands on the hillside above Ago Bay, no private beach is described, and the water is reached by boat, on the private sunset cruise from the Nemu Resort marina or a picnic in one of the coves (experiences). The nearest bathing beach, Goza Shirahama, is 3.6 km across the water but 29.4 km and 37 minutes by road (OpenStreetMap), and is open for swimming from 1 July to 31 August (Shima Tourism Association).

At 2165 Hazako, Hamajima-cho, Shima, Mie, on a forested hillside above Ago Bay in Ise-Shima National Park (contact). Kashikojima station is 10.2 km away, Ugata 7.7 km, Ise’s inner shrine 29.5 km. It is quiet: a guest in February 2026 wrote that the resort never felt crowded, and others write of birdsong by day and insects at night. The grounds are large, and staff drive guests between the pavilions by cart.

On 1 October 2026: 4.5 out of 5 on Google from 456 reviews (75% five stars), 4.2 on Tripadvisor from 175, sixth of 28 hotels in Shima, 4.7 on Trip.com from 48, and 19.4 out of 20 from MICHELIN’s verified guests. Tripadvisor rates the rooms 4.6 and cleanliness 4.9, value 3.9.

Guests praise the staff, the architecture, the spa and the suites, and one, in May 2026, wrote on Reddit of having «really loved it there». Guests satisfied with the price point to the baths and the quiet; others weigh it against the cooking and restaurant service. Nights start at 382,800 yen on Google, now with dinner; there is one restaurant for every meal, with a set dinner, and you leave the resort by car. It is a place for hot springs and quiet.