Miyajima Inns: Kikunoya, Iroha, Morinoyado, Watanabe, Yamaichi

Five more places to stay on Miyajima are often looked up by name: Hotel Kikunoya (a 17-minute walk from the pier but 5 minutes from the shrine, with free pickup, a foot bath and, since 2025, an annexe for guests of junior-high-school age and over), Itsukushima Iroha (an inn founded in 1867 on the main shopping street, reopened in 2024, with a top-floor bath looking at the Great Torii), Miyajima Morinoyado (a public lodge in Omoto Park facing the aquarium, with a day-use bath), Miyajima Shiki no Yado Watanabe (four rooms by Daisho-in temple, each with a cypress bath) and Yamaichi Bekkan (a four-room inn and restaurant right in front of the ferry terminal).

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The details below come from each inn’s own website, checked in October 2026; we have not stayed at them. Only Watanabe publishes an adult room rate (from 25,300 yen per person with two meals, tax included); for the others, look up your dates on a booking site or ask the inn. Some inns’ websites contradict themselves on small points, which we note where it matters.

The five at a glance

Hotel Kikunoya

Hotel Kikunoya is 5 minutes’ walk from Itsukushima Shrine and about 17 minutes on foot from the ferry pier (its FAQ says about 20 minutes if you walk through the shopping street and the shrine). You can also use the free pickup (the English site asks you to arrange it in advance): call the hotel just before you board the ferry and its car meets you at Miyajima Pier, about 5 minutes’ drive. It mixes Japanese and Western rooms, and the sea-side rooms look out over the water to the Great Torii.

• Pickup and luggage: phone +81-829-40-2403 just before your ferry leaves; the service runs 9:00–20:00 (one line on the site says 21:00). They can also pick up just your luggage at the pier, and the front desk keeps bags before check-in and after check-out. There is no hotel parking on the island; leave a car in Miyajimaguchi.
• Rooms: on the sea side, Premium Western rooms (35 m², two king-size twin beds, sea and torii views) and Japanese rooms of 10 and 12 tatami. Note that the 10-tatami sea-view Japanese rooms have a toilet but no bath. On the other side are Japanese rooms from 6 to 12 tatami, a 30 m² family room and small Western rooms (11–19 m²); the 10-tatami room on this side also has no bath, and the Deluxe rooms have a shower booth only. Free Wi-Fi in every room. Single occupancy is generally not accepted (some rooms and dates excepted).
• Meals: the chef’s own kaiseki dinner at 18:00 or 19:00 (chosen at check-in), in the restaurant or a banquet room depending on numbers. Breakfast 7:30–9:00 is a Japanese set or a Western half-buffet (at times only the Japanese set). Allergies must be notified at least five days ahead, and the hotel says it cannot cater for vegetarian, vegan, halal or gluten-free diets. Children on the adult menu pay 70% of the adult meal rate, and the children’s plate 50%.
• Bath: the shared bath “Kiku no Yu” has a jacuzzi-style indoor bath and a stone open-air bath in a Japanese garden, open 6:00–10:00 and 16:00–24:00 for guests only. The site does not say it is a hot spring. Beside the entrance, the foot bath café “Kiku café” is free and open to anyone 10:00–22:00.
• Times: check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00. Cancellation: 5% seven days before, 30% from six to two days before, 50% the day before, 100% on the day (may differ if you book through a travel agent or booking site).
• Kikunoya Bettei (annexe): opened on 27 July 2025 diagonally across the lane, with eight detached rooms of 40 m² for up to three people. Each has its own bath of Aomori hiba wood and Towada stone filled with “Komyoseki” water, an artificial hot spring. There are three room types (lane side, with a small garden, or facing Momijidani Park) and you cannot choose which. Breakfast is a three-tier tray and drinks are free; the annexe page does not mention dinner. Only guests of junior-high-school age and over can stay.

Address: 335 Miyajima-cho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0523 (annexe: 334). Tel. +81-829-40-2400 (reservations, 9:00–21:00).

Itsukushima Iroha

Itsukushima Iroha is an inn on the main shopping street (Omotesando), 7 minutes’ walk from Itsukushima Shrine, that dates its founding to 1867. Older listings call it “Kurayado Iroha”; its current website uses only “Itsukushima Iroha”. It was renovated from December 2023 and reopened on 2 March 2024 with new Japanese Premium rooms and fully refurbished Superior and Standard rooms with larger bathrooms. Its draw is the fifth-floor shared bath with an open-air section that looks out on the sea and the Great Torii.

• Rooms: two suites, “Umi” (105 m², glass-walled bath of cypress and Towada stone, torii and sea view) and “Yama” (91 m², cave-like bath with a skylight and jet bath, on the forest side); three Japanese Premium rooms of about 30 m² with futons and a traditional iron-pot bath; and Superior and Standard rooms of 40–62 m² for up to four, sea-side or mountain-side, including one Japanese-style room and one barrier-free twin. Every room has its own bath or shower and a Western toilet.
• Meals: dinner is kaiseki at the inn’s ground-floor restaurant “Miyajima Yohei” (Hiroshima beef, oysters, local fish), either a seasonal Setouchi kaiseki or a “choose-your-dishes” kaiseki. Breakfast is Japanese, or a Western buffet. Tell the inn about allergies when you book and at least three days ahead; the kitchen cannot guarantee complete removal. Since May 2025 Miyajima Yohei is also open for lunch by phone reservation.
• Bath: the top-floor shared bath with open-air section; hours are not listed on the site, and it does not say the water is a hot spring.
• Times: check-in 15:00–19:00 at the second-floor front desk, check-out 12:00, the latest of the five. Rooms open with a code lock.
• Good to know: free Wi-Fi, a fridge, tea and coffee in every room, and yukata or samue loungewear depending on the plan. The website gives no walking time from the pier and mentions no pickup; for a car, use the paid car parks in Miyajimaguchi.

Address: 589-4 Miyajima-cho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0559. Tel. +81-829-44-0168 (9:00–18:00).

Miyajima Morinoyado

Morinoyado is a kokumin shukusha, a public lodge, in Omoto Park at the foot of Mount Misen’s primeval forest, right in front of the Miyajima Aquarium It is a no-frills public lodge: 30 Japanese and Western rooms in a four-storey building with a lift, a restaurant, and a large shared bath that day visitors can use too. School groups also use it, and it is a convenient base if the aquarium or the quiet western edge of the town is on your list.

• Getting there: a free shuttle runs between Miyajima Pier and the lodge (about 10 minutes) from 9:00 to 19:00 for guests: phone +81-829-44-0430 just before you board the ferry and wait by the phone box and red post box in front of the ferry terminal. The lodge can also take your luggage at the pier. For the return, ask at check-in and ride a scheduled run to the pier; the shuttle is one car for up to six, so you may wait 15–30 minutes at busy times. On foot it is about 25 minutes from the pier towards the aquarium, according to the lodge’s facility sheet.
• Rooms: 10-tatami Japanese rooms facing the forest, with bath; 10-tatami Japanese rooms without a bath; 8-tatami Japanese rooms on the sea side, with bath; and Western twins, all facing the sea. Every room has a washbasin and toilet. All rooms are non-smoking; there is a smoking corner.
• Meals: kaiseki dinner (“Momijidani” standard or “Itsukushima” special) at 18:00 or 19:00, first come first served, and a Japanese breakfast 7:00–9:00, both in the ground-floor restaurant “Omoto” at tables. Tell the lodge about allergies three days ahead. The restaurant also serves lunch to non-guests, for example conger eel soba (1,750 yen) and a plant-based vegan lunch (1,800 yen).
• Bath: the shared bath “Miyajima no Yu” (separate for men and women) is open to guests 6:00–23:00, closed for cleaning 9:00–10:30. Day visitors can bathe 10:30–17:00 (last entry 16:00) for 600 yen, towel 150 yen. The site does not say it is a hot spring.
• Times: check-in 16:00–19:00, check-out 10:00. Cancellation: 30% from three days before, 50% the day before, 100% on the day. Cash and credit cards accepted (travel vouchers are not).
• Booking: phone bookings open on the 1st of the month, 11 months ahead, and there is no waiting list.

Address: Omoto Park, Miyajima-cho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0588. Tel. +81-829-44-0430 (9:00–19:00).

Miyajima Shiki no Yado Watanabe

Watanabe (“Watanabe Inn” on its English pages, at the web address auberge-watanabe.com) is a small family inn beside the Shiraito stream in front of Daisho-in temple, about 10 minutes’ walk from Itsukushima Shrine. It traces its roots to a teahouse opened in the early Taisho era (the 1910s) by the current young owner’s great-grandmother, Chiyono, and today takes no more than four groups a night. It is the place for a quiet evening and a kaiseki of local fish, away from the pier.

• Rooms: four Japanese rooms, “Sesshu” (8 tatami), “Momiji” (10 tatami), “Shiraito” (16 tatami) and “Rikyu” (6 tatami with a loft). Every room has its own all-cypress bath and toilet, plus TV, air conditioning, a small fridge and Wi-Fi. (The English room page says “three rooms” but lists all four; the Japanese page counts three tatami rooms plus the loft room.)
• Meals: a kaiseki of seasonal Seto Inland Sea fish, served at a table for each room in “Chiyono-an” on the ground floor rather than in your room; breakfast is included. Tell the inn in advance about anything you cannot eat.
• Price: from 25,300 yen per person with dinner and breakfast, tax included, depending on the room and number of guests.
• Times: check-in 15:00, check-out 10:00. Cancellation charges start four weeks before (30% to one week before, 50% to the day before, 100% on the day, per the English page).
• Good to know: bookings by phone only (+81-829-44-0234, 9:00–21:00). The whole inn is non-smoking, e-cigarettes included. Families with infants and solo travellers may not be accepted. The website does not mention pickup or parking. From the pier it is about 20 minutes on foot towards Daisho-in (the English page says 30).

Address: 215-1 Takimachi, Miyajima-cho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0524. Tel. +81-829-44-0234.

Yamaichi Bekkan

Yamaichi Bekkan is a kappo ryokan, a restaurant with rooms, directly in front of the ferry terminal, which makes it the closest of the five to the boat. It calls itself the smallest inn on Miyajima, with four rooms, and says so itself: the building is three storeys with no lift (one English page says four), the rooms are small and there is no large shared bath. It is known for its food, including conger eel and winter oysters, and for its care with special diets.

• Rooms: a Japanese room for two, a 20-tatami group room for up to eight, and a Western twin. Each has its own bath and toilet, TV, air conditioning and a safe. Groups of up to 14 can ask.
• Meals: Japanese and Western breakfast; dinner from full kaiseki to simpler courses in the ground-floor restaurant or, if arranged ahead, in your room; book dinner by closing time the day before. The English stay page gives guest dinner courses from 15,400 yen. The restaurant’s menu lists, for example, a seasonal kaiseki (11,000 or 5,500 yen), a conger eel course (9,500 yen), an oyster course (9,500 yen, November–March) and conger eel rice bowl (3,300 yen).
• Special diets: a fully plant-based kaiseki (others at the table can have the regular one), gluten-free as far as possible (call to discuss), and Muslim-friendly cooking: no pork, no alcohol or pork-derived seasonings, halal-certified chicken and beef, separate utensils and a space for prayer, though the restaurant itself is not halal-certified.
• Times: check-in 15:00–17:00, check-out by 10:00. Cancellation (English page): free until seven days before arrival, then the first night’s rate.
• Car: four parking spaces if you bring a car over on the car ferry; otherwise park in Miyajimaguchi.

Address: 1162-4 Miyajima-cho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0504. Tel. +81-829-44-0700.

Which one to choose

• A view of the Great Torii from the bath: Itsukushima Iroha (top-floor open-air bath). From the room: a sea-side room at Hotel Kikunoya (the 10-tatami ones have no bath).
• Close to the shrine for an early morning walk: Kikunoya (5 minutes) or Iroha (7 minutes).
• Closest to the ferry: Yamaichi Bekkan, in front of the terminal.
• Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free or halal: Yamaichi Bekkan. Kikunoya says it cannot cater for these diets.
• A quiet small inn with a private bath: Watanabe (every room has a cypress bath; four groups a night).
• Groups or the aquarium: Morinoyado, with a free shuttle, a lift and a large bath.
• A couple wanting a detached room with its own bath: Kikunoya Bettei (junior-high age and over).

Other island inns are covered in Sakuraya, Hotel Makoto, Seaside Hotel and Mikuniya, the grand ryokan in Iwaso, Kinsuikan and Miyajima Grand Hotel Arimoto, and every place to stay with addresses in Miyajima hotels and ryokans compared. Hiroshima Prefecture’s accommodation tax applies across the prefecture from April 2026 (200 yen per person per night on room-only rates of 6,000 yen or more), and everyone pays Miyajima’s 100-yen visitor tax with the ferry fare.

Frequently asked questions

Is Kurayado Iroha the same as Itsukushima Iroha?

Older listings use the name Kurayado Iroha for the inn at 589-4 Miyajima-cho, and the inn’s old web address now redirects to the Itsukushima Iroha site. It reopened after renovation on 2 March 2024.

Does Hotel Kikunoya pick you up from the ferry?

Yes. Call +81-829-40-2403 just before you board the ferry (9:00–20:00) and the hotel’s car meets you at Miyajima Pier. It can also collect only your luggage.

Which of these has an open-air bath?

Hotel Kikunoya (a stone open-air bath in a garden) and Itsukushima Iroha (top floor, facing the torii) have shared baths with open-air sections. Watanabe and Yamaichi Bekkan have private baths in each room only. None of the five calls its shared bath a natural hot spring; for those, see the Miyajima onsen guide.

Can I use the bath at Morinoyado without staying?

Yes. Day visitors can use the shared bath 10:30–17:00 (last entry 16:00) for 600 yen; a towel is 150 yen.

Which inn suits vegetarians or Muslim travellers?

Yamaichi Bekkan offers a fully plant-based kaiseki and Muslim-friendly meals without pork or alcohol. Morinoyado’s restaurant has a vegan lunch, but its site does not say whether dinner can be vegetarian. Hotel Kikunoya says it cannot cater for vegetarian, vegan or halal diets.

Sources: Hotel Kikunoya and Kikunoya Bettei (official website: rooms, cuisine, facilities, FAQ, access); Itsukushima Iroha (official website: about, rooms, cuisine, service, access, news); Miyajima Morinoyado (official website: rooms, cuisine, bath, access, FAQ, facility outline); Miyajima Shiki no Yado Watanabe (official website in Japanese and English: rooms, food, rates, access); Yamaichi Bekkan (official website: stay, cuisine, vegetarian and Muslim pages, access). Checked October 2026. Compiled from official information; we have not stayed at these inns.