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OT...Anyone tried the Manyo Club Onsen in CTS Airport?? any trip reports?

Shoppingger

Hi, anyone knows if there's any onsen with private room for 2? I'll be staying in shinjuku area. Intend to go to the onsen theme park at odaiba but my understanding is that they only have onsens that are public and gender separated.

Pls help! Thanks!

LapLap

The Kodainoyu has private baths but that's on the other side of Tokyo.
Private rooms in urban onsen don't really make that much sense - people go further away for romantic weekends in the tub.

The exception are a very select few of the Love Hotels. You can hire a rooftop tub at about 5,000yen per hour for three hours here:
http://www.paplaza.com/ (room 803) It costs a bit less per hour if you stay the night. This hotel is in Shibuya

In Shinjuku there's this place:
http://www.balian.jp/shop/shinjuku/index.html No rooftop spa baths but it is a bit cheaper
Here's a blog showing a stay in one of the smaller rooms (501)
http://koukai55.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2007-09-28
The more expensive rooms have bigger baths

Q Shoe Guy

There is a Onsen/Sento (the water didn't smell like tap water, but it could have been smoke and mirrors) near/behind the Franc Franc on Aoyama Dori. Apart from it being brutally crowded, it wasn't so expensive.

LapLap

That won't have private rooms, will it?

Looks like you're referring to Shimizuyu
http://shimizuyu.jp/
Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=%E6%...BC%93&t=m&z=17

It's definitely the sort of place I have an interest in (the 450yen rate suits me nicely). Also has a launderette attached so would be pretty use for a notable percentage of FTers.

freecia

Manyo Club also opened a location with chartered baths and hotel rooms with private baths near Minamimachida station which is a 30 minute train ride from Shibuya station via Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line Express for 290 yen.

Manyo runs a shuttle bus between the station to the onsen every 30 minutes

It looks like the location offers some views of the surrounding neighborhood. The water is trucked in from Yugawara.

http://www.manyo.co.jp/machida/

Price for entry = 2,400 yen
Price for 60 minute chartered bath = 2,650 yen
I'm not sure if this includes entry or is per room/person

Price list:
http://translate.googleusercontent.c...fzMgd-9tehJYMQ

Overnight rooms without private bath start at 6,000 yen per person. Rooms with private bath start at 9,000 yen per person.

The Manyo club in Yokohama's Minato Mirai also has chartered baths available http://www.manyo.co.jp/mm21/floor-guide/6f

The fees are a bit higher than the Machida location and so is the train fare, but there's a city view from the foot bath. Danny Choo has a review http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/1435/Manyo+Club.html (backgrounds might be a bit NSFW... It is an otaku oriented site.)

LapLap

I spent several days overlooking that foot pool whilst in the Yokohoma Intercontinental and wondered what the deal was (was passing kidney stones for some of that time so didn't have the urge to go and investigate).

Now I know... thank you!

Mr Choo posted a photo of a poster showing a private onsen bath for hire at Yokohama
http://www.dannychoo.com/slide/en/24059/Onsen.html
The 3,100yen charge may be in addition to the entry fee.
The P&A tub in Shibuya is starting to seem quite economical...

Q Shoe Guy

I am quite aware that there were no private rooms there (it was near the apartment where I lived for 6 months), just thought it was appropriate for this Onsen thread......Cheers!

Shoppingger

thanks for all the replies.

being the 1st time in japan, i'm looking forward to an onsen experience (not bath using normal water). it's only me and my bf so it's kind of weird & boring to be enjoying onsen separately alone. hence looking for a private room or somewhere that allows both gender (dressed in swimsuit of coz).

i looked up the Manyo club outlets. i have to rely on Google translator as their site is in Japanese and not every piece of information is properly translated. It looks like the Tokyo Yugawara outlet don't have family private family bath, while the Minato Mirai one does. not sure if i'm right.

and can someone help me out here. the cover charge of Minato Mirai (2620 yen) allows access to which sections of the club without extra charges? if i take on a family bath (additional 3200 yen), i still have access to the other free areas included by the cover charge?

actually, if i decide on Minato Mirai, then likely i will be staying there for a night. i see that the twin rooms on 4th and 5th storey is 6900 yen per person per night. is this inclusive of the cover charge? i presume if i were to rent a private family bath, it will be an additional 3200 yen? is there any option of taking up a 1-night accommodation room tat as a private onsen bath?

LapLap

It is EXTREMELY appropriate to this thread. But it did pop up just after the post about private tubs so I thought I should make a rhetorical question to make it clear that your post wasn't an answer to Shoppingger's query.
I knew you knew...

Shoppingger - I believe you can do quite a bit better than the Manyo club, particularly as you're prepared to stay away for the evening.

The whole urban onsen/sento thing (where one gets to enjoy relaxing naked with the neighbourhood octogenarians and a whole array of other assorted characters from the local 'hood) is, for me, a very, very special experience and this interaction is as much the attraction as the actual water is. Shared bathing is a stubborn bastion of old Edo Tokyo that somehow managed to survive through McCarthy Japan and the fact that it still persists and hangs on in there is, frankly, astonishing. And yet, from what I've seen already in the past ten years, it's quite clear that very few of the traditional style neighbourhood onsen (if any) will make it through to the second half of this century.

I think a new thread is called for as what you want is almost the antithesis of what this one is actually about. I'll fire one up for you.
There you go: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/japan...e-bathing.html

KPT

There's a smaller version of Oedo Onsen Monogatari at Big Fun Heiwajima, take Keikyu to Heiwajima (few minutes from Shinagawa) and there's a free bus right outside the east exit.

http://www.heiwajima-onsen.jp/en/index.html

Day pass is 1500 yen, which is just over half of what you pay at Oedo (though the facility is much much smaller). I can't quite recommend the restaurant that's there though.

LapLap

Very interesting!
This looks to be exactly what standingbaba was after, it's open 2w4 hours and has early morning bus links to Haneda.
Nice find!

standing_baba

Thanks for your replies. I burned some miles to visit Tokyo for just four days. In the end, I spent a few hours at Jakotsuyu Onsen (near the lit-up Sensoji Temple which is beautiful and quiet at night). This is very much an authentic (urban) Japanese onsen. I was the only foreigner there, though apparently foreigners have visited before. Upon entering I immediately noticed the 60-something front desk lady's annoyance with my lack of understanding/Japanese and out of ritual she pushed the etiquette sheet with cartoon characters toward me along with my locker keys. She was in no way unfriendly, just uninterested haha. I guess after being bowed to like a god by so many cashiers and sushi chefs I was a bit taken back by this normal-level of customer service. Anyway, Jakotsuyu onsen is simple and affordable, and for what it's worth I recommend it.

chollie

Interesting username!

I think I've been to this onsen, too. Very quiet and traditional, an older gent manning the desk when I was there, no one western in sight. No upscale thrills and frills, but it was just what I needed.

LapLap

Great to see your report, standing_baba ^
I'm very pleased you enjoyed your visit.