Hoshinoya Fuji

On Google Hotels, read on 1 October 2026 for 2 adults, a night showed 134,904 yen on 15 October, 287,648 yen on 30 November and 230,896 yen on 18 December 2026, and 193,504 yen on 18 February 2027: prices for the room, with neither the cabin nor the plan named. The hotel’s own booking calendar, read the same day for one night in the cheapest cabin, prices per person, room only: for 2 that comes to 146,652 yen on 15 October, 169,884 yen on 30 November, 135,036 yen on 18 December and 111,804 yen on 18 February. These are dated individual-night observations: the 15 October quote was close to the reading date, and 18 February is a single priced night between gaps in the calendar. For a run of consecutive nights, the 13 October 2026 reading shows 21–24 February 2027 from 196,179 to 205,943 yen per night for 2 adults.

Month by month, the lowest one-night rate for 2 on that calendar is 146,652 yen in October, 169,884 in November, 135,036 in December, 88,572 in January 2027 (76,956 on 11 January, the night before the closure), 111,804 in February and March, 123,420 in April, 100,188 in May, 65,340 in June (53,724 on 20 June, again before a closure), 76,956 in July and 88,572 in August and September. On most nights from November Google’s figure is about 1.7 times the hotel’s; why is not established.

A worked example from the booking engine: a T Cabin for 2 nights from 10 November 2026 costs 90,750 yen per person on the first night, 363,000 yen for the stay for 2 on the flexible rate, 272,248 yen on the online plan for 2 nights or more (25% less, non-refundable) and 440,440 yen with half board. The “from 24,502 yen” on the home page is per person and below every one-night rate on the calendar.

Per person. The booking calendar says it shows “the lowest rate per person per night”, and the total for 2 is twice that figure: 90,750 yen per person for the first night in a T Cabin on 10 November 2026, 363,000 yen for the room for 2 nights (booking engine). Google Hotels, by contrast, shows a price for the room. Cabins take 1 or 2 guests, the F Cabin 3, so a couple pays for 2.

The standard rate is room only (Standard Rate): Wi-Fi and parking are free; meals, the in-room spa and most activities are paid, and there is no station transfer. The room rates appear to include the 10% consumption tax and the 10% service charge (90,750 yen is 75,000 × 1.21, our calculation); meal and activity prices are quoted before them (dining). The accommodation tax is collected at the property (booking terms), and Fujikawaguchiko adds a town tax of 200 yen per person per night from 1 April 2027 (notice of 29 September 2026). Tipping is not accepted (Hoshino Resorts FAQ).

Dinner is not included: the Standard Rate is “No Meals Included” (booking). The Half-Board Plan adds dinner and breakfast in the dining hall: the Gastronomic Wild course on the first night, a wagyu sirloin grill set on the second, Grill Morning breakfasts, and no substitutions. For a T Cabin from 10 November 2026 it costs 110,110 yen per person for the first night against 90,750 room only, 19,360 yen more (booking engine). Without it, meals are booked separately once the cabin is booked.

Dinner is the Gastronomic Wild course in the dining hall, all year from 5:30pm, at 12,000 yen per adult over 12 before tax and 10% service, about 14,520 yen with them by our sum; children under 12 order à la carte. On your terrace from 6:10pm there are hot-pots for 2 or more: red-wine sukiyaki at 15,000 yen, or a vegetarian soy-milk shabu-shabu at 10,000 yen per person, ordered by 5pm. Breakfast is the Breakfast Box brought to the cabin, 5,000 yen, ordered the day before, or Morning Grills in the dining hall from 7:30am to 9:10am, 4,000 yen. In-room dining runs from 9am to 6pm without booking. Meals are booked after the cabin, a same-day cancellation costs 100%, and the kitchen does not adapt to allergies or diets (dining).

Guests in different years report that the dining hall books out. Book meals with the cabin. In the evening the TAKIBI Bar serves drinks on the Cloud Terrace (autumn page).

There is no spa building to walk into. The only treatments are given in your cabin, from 2pm to 9pm (in-room spa). The official facility list names a pool, an onsen and a public bath, but no room, dining or activity page describes them, and Google marks pool and hot tub unavailable. Google is wrong in the other direction on the spa: its card says there is none, while the in-room menu is on sale.

3, per person, tax and 10% service included: shiatsu for 60 minutes at 14,520 yen or 90 minutes at 22,990 yen, and acupuncture, moxibustion and shiatsu for 120 minutes at 31,900 yen (spa menu). The activity page lists the 60 and 120 minute treatments at 12,000 and 26,364 yen before tax and service. No product brand is named, treatments are not given during pregnancy, and they start at age 16. The English activity page says the therapist is male; the menu says the practitioner’s gender cannot be chosen.

It is not in the room rate: each treatment is paid per person. As it happens in the cabins, there is no day pass and no access for visitors. The only plan with a treatment included is the Forest Wellness Retreat for solo travellers, 2 nights minimum, with acupuncture and shiatsu (plan).

Treatments run from 2pm to 9pm, the last at 9pm, and must be booked by 1pm the same day; cancelling is free until 24 hours before, then it costs 100% (spa menu). There are no pool or spa opening hours, because there is no pool or spa room.

No. No official room, dining, activity or story page describes a pool, an onsen or a public bath, Google marks pool and hot tub unavailable, and guests wrote “there is no onsen, hot spring or public bath” in 2017 (Tripadvisor) and found no onsen in 2019 (The Shutterwhale). Only the facility list on the English and Japanese home pages names them, without a word of detail. Each cabin has a bathtub (room page).

A HOSHINOYA, the luxury brand of Hoshino Resorts, with 40 cabins, opened on 31 October 2015 (Wikipedia) and presented as Japan’s first glamping resort (official site). The cabins are concrete boxes with a terrace living room on a 6-hectare forested slope in a national park special zone, above them the Cloud Terrace and a dining hall (Property Details). Expedia classes it as a 5-star property, and in May 2026 it made the top 10 of the Hotel Villa category at the Hôtel & Lodge Awards (Hoshino Resorts).

5 categories, all with a terrace living room, floor heating, air conditioning, a bathtub, a minibar and a table that holds a fire on the terrace (room page, Property Details). The T Cabin, 40 m², is the standard twin; the S Cabin, 40 m², adds a wood stove on the terrace and there are only 2; the D Cabin Terrace Sofa and D Cabin Deck Chair, 39 m², have a king bed of 210 × 200 cm and, their pages say, a closer view of the lake; the F Cabin, 47 m², has 3 beds and is the only one for a family of 3. Beds in the twins are 210 × 105 cm. You book a category; the cabin itself cannot be chosen, and the number of cabins per category is published only for the S.

Yes, according to Hoshino Resorts: its press page, read on 15 October 2026, says all 40 rooms have a view of Mt Fuji beyond the lake. Hoshino Resorts’ press page says all 40 rooms have a view of Fuji across the lake, and the Japan National Tourism Organization puts the mountain above the opposite shore. The official rooms text and the booking pages mention only the lake, and a cabin cannot be chosen. A review on Thought & Sight says every room sees Fuji and only the king-bed rooms see it from the bath. On Google, a guest in a top-row T Cabin in February 2026 had the whole mountain ahead with roofs in the foreground, and another in September 2026, in a cabin low on the slope, found roofs standing between it and the view.

December and January: the mountain is fully visible on over 60% of days, while in July and August it is completely hidden on more than 65% (IsItVisible, 20 March 2026). June is the rainy season and August brings typhoon risk. At about 800 m the summer mornings and evenings are cool (summer page); cherry blossom and magnolia flower in early April and the “Notori”, a bird-shaped patch of snow, shows on the mountain in late April (spring page); the forest turns in October (autumn page).

It is open all year, with 2 closures on the booking calendar: 12 to 20 January 2027, which Expedia also lists, and 21 to 24 June 2027. The calendar takes bookings to September 2027 at least. Pet-friendly rooms are offered only for stays until 11 January 2027 (official site).

The forest and the lakeside start to turn in October, and late November is quiet and crisp (autumn page); a guest who came in late November found the foliage at its peak (Whimsy Soul). Read on 1 October 2026, the calendar for 2-night stays showed 18 of 31 October arrival dates sold and 12 with few cabins left, and in November 17 sold and 13 with few left (booking calendar): autumn needs booking months ahead. In winter there is a kotatsu on the terrace (winter terrace).

Hotel cabins with air conditioning, floor heating, a bathtub and a minibar, with a third of each floor plan outdoors as a terrace living room and a table built for a fire (Property Details). The Cloud Terrace is a series of wooden decks in the pine forest above the cabins, with hammocks, chairs, fire pits and the Library Cafe at the top (Cloud Terrace); from 11 September to 2 December 2026 the TAKIBI Bar and a forest concert run there in the evening, free to enter (autumn page).

To Kawaguchiko Station, then a taxi. From Shinjuku the highway bus takes 1 hour 45 minutes for 2,200 yen, the Fuji Excursion about 2 hours for 4,200 yen (Selected Onsen Ryokan, 18 May 2026); the hotel’s access page gives 120 minutes for either. Direct buses run from Haneda, 3 hours for 3,300 yen, and from Narita, 3 hours 40 minutes for 6,000 yen (same guide; an undated Keikyu Bus page gives 2,400 yen from Haneda). By car, the Chuo Expressway to Otsuki Junction and the Higashi-Fujigoko Road to the Kawaguchiko Interchange. From Kyoto, the Tokaido Shinkansen to Mishima, 170 minutes, then the hotel’s private chauffeur, booked in advance (access page).

There is no shuttle (At a Glance). The taxi from Kawaguchiko Station covers 7.3 km by road, 7 minutes by our routing (OSRM) and 15 to 20 minutes in guests’ accounts (BrianLi.com, Thought & Sight). No fare is published; KAYAK’s review summary says about 3,000 yen, and a guest in 2017 guessed the same. The chauffeur from Mishima has no published price. At reception, at the foot of the hill, a jeep or minibus takes you and your bags up to the cabins.

Yes, free and outdoors, with no need to book, at the reception at the bottom of the hill (official site); from there the hotel drives you up. 4 EV chargers work 24 hours, 2 of 3.2 kW and 2 of 6 kW, applied for after booking; visitors may use them too, guests first (access page).

At 1408 Oishi, Fujikawaguchiko, on a south-facing forested hill on the north side of Lake Kawaguchi (access page, Property Details): 7.3 km by road from Kawaguchiko Station and 508 m, 7 minutes on foot, from the shore at Oishi Park. It is quiet among the trees. Google’s card, which puts the hotel 6 km from the lakeshore, is wrong: the shore is 0.5 km away.

The lake stretches in front of the resort (official story), 508 m away on foot at Oishi Park, but the hotel has no beach, jetty or beach club. It takes guests out on the water with Early Morning Canoeing, 7am to 8:30am, 7,040 yen per adult before tax, from age 2 (canoeing). The sea is far: Yamanashi is inland.

Nothing is published: there is no wedding, ceremony or private-event page on the English or Japanese site, and no capacity or price. The only related entry is a “Meeting Room” in the facility list.

No New Year’s Eve gala or special menu is published; the Gastronomic Wild course is served all year (dining). On the booking calendar 31 December 2026 costs 119,790 yen per person against 96,558 yen on 30 December. The Praying for Good Fortune Stay, from 1 December 2026 to 28 February 2027, adds sunrise canoeing, a goshuin stamp book, a prayer at Fuji Omuro Sengen Shrine and a breakfast, at 45,455 yen per person before tax and service on top of the room, from age 20 (programme). A guest who saw in the New Year of 2026 here wrote on Google of a New Year gift left in the cabin.

On 1 October 2026: 25% off for 2 nights or more, prepaid and non-refundable (online plan); long-stay discounts of up to 40% from 3 nights and up to 60% from 6 (room search); a Winter Wellness Retreat Package advertised at 30% off with extras, 63,525 yen per person for the first night of a T Cabin from 10 November; the half-board plan; and the Forest Wellness Retreat for solo travellers, 2 nights minimum, which had no availability for 16 to 18 October 2026 (plan).

A 2-night minimum, with single nights bookable only within 30 days of arrival (booking calendar). On the flexible rate cancelling costs 10% of the room rate from 21 to 4 days before and 100% from 3 days before; the discounted plans are non-refundable (terms). The number of guests cannot be changed once confirmed, and no specific cabin can be chosen (room page). Check-in from 3pm, until 10pm according to Expedia; check-out at noon (At a Glance).

For small families with older children. Cabins sleep 1 or 2, the F Cabin 3; children under 12 can share a bed up to that limit, and there are no extra beds (At a Glance, Expedia). The course dinner is for those over 12, younger children eat à la carte; activities start at 2 for the canoe, 6 for the Jukai morning tour, 10 for the lava hike, 13 for the De-digital Stay and 16 for the in-room spa (activities). The facility list includes a playroom. No minimum age to stay is published; Expedia sets 18 as the minimum age to check in. With small children, allow for the many stairs on the slope.

Yes, in pet-friendly rooms, for stays until 11 January 2027 (official site); Google lists pets as allowed with an extra charge, and no fee is published. The hotel’s page, read again on 15 October 2026, still allows them, so Expedia’s “Pets not allowed” is wrong.

Wi-Fi is free in every cabin and in some public areas. On site the hotel takes cash and credit cards, UnionPay included; online, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club and JCB (At a Glance). Tipping is not accepted at Hoshino Resorts in Japan (FAQ).

Only partly. The site is steep, with many stairs (a guest tip from May-June 2026 on Tripadvisor), and guests are driven from reception to the cabins by minibus or jeep. A wheelchair can be asked for at the front desk (HOSHINOYA amenities), but no step-free cabin or route is published.

No: none of the 10 programmes on the activity list is golf, and no golf package or green-fee discount is published.

The Library Cafe and the Cloud Terrace, the dining hall, in-room treatments, a playroom and a meeting room; free Wi-Fi, free parking and EV charging (At a Glance); 10 activities, from canoeing and forest walks to e-bikes, stretching and a pizza workshop at 3,500 yen a pizza (activities, dining). The pool, onsen and public bath in the same facility list are not supported by any other source.

The scores are good: 4.4 out of 5 on Google from 1,084 ratings (73% five stars), 4.3 on Tripadvisor from 342 reviews, fourth of 171 specialty lodgings in Fujikawaguchiko, 9.6 out of 10 on Expedia from 357 and 9.2 on KAYAK from 231. Booking.com has no listing. People praise the view, the forest, the fire and most of the staff.

On Tripadvisor value scores 3.8 out of 5. 3 things recur in the 2026 reviews and are worth knowing first: the rate pays for the cabin alone, the slope has many stairs and meals are booked ahead. It is worth the price for those who want the setting and the activities and come in the clearer months; for Fuji in July or August it is a gamble.