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KI-NRT
By the way - since you're in Nagasaki, perhaps you'd know. We really are overdue to visit Sasebo and Hirado. Any properties that even remotely approach luxury standards? We would likely fly into Nagasaki, rent a car, stay somewhere in Huis Ten Bosch for 2 nights (Okura?), visit some of the churches in Sasebo on the way to Hirado (probably Kuroshima Church), and stay 2 nights in Hirado.
In Huis Ten Bosch, the consensus luxury hotel appears to be the Okura. After your visit, I'd be interested to read any review you might choose to write about it, and whether you think a visit to the Huis Ten Bosch theme park was worth it. As for Hirado, I've never stayed at a "luxury" or even a near-luxury hotel or Ryokan Osen there (such a place may not even exist that meets such standards), rather, it's all pretty much been your average onsen-for-the-masses kind of place. We don't stay at Onsen Ryokan or hotels in Hirado that often (Unzen, Ureshino, and Obama are much closer and offer a better and wider selection), but as a data point, the last place we stayed at (just this year) was the Yukai Resort: Hotel Ranpu, Hirado. Yukai Resort is a small onsen hotel chain with hotels in Unzen as well. It's been around since at least the 80s and it probably won't meet your standards but it had a decent onsen spa (hot and cold baths with sauna) and the ocean view is very nice, but the rooms are dated. This is very much the state of such onsen resorts in Nagasaki Prefecture, so frankly, I'd just search online to see if you can't find something more to your liking.