An absolutely must stay in Takayama. The ryokan has everything that embodies the Japanese spirit with all the comforts that you need. The ryokan despite being over a 100 years old is incredibly comfortable with spotless rooms, that are generously sized for you to feel both comfortable and at home. The standout, however, is not the cozy nature of the ryokan, or the countless little touches they have throughout that make you feel at home but the spectacular staff. The staff are welcoming, courteous and make every effort for you to have an enjoyable stay. They are incredibly hospitable and helped us on numerous occasions with restaurant bookings (as we did not have a local Japanese number) as well as assisting us after our stay with lost property (not at the ryokan either!). I would not hesitate to come back to Gifu just to stay at the Hidaya again.

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We had a really great experience staying at this traditional Japanese hotel, really friendly and helpful staff made our stay very enjoyable. We had plenty of help with finding local attractions and restaurants and even booking taxis and making reservations for restaurants. The common areas were really clean and cosy. We requested to change our room free of extra charge, which was really great as not all rooms have showers inside bathrooms.

The staff are warm, helpful, clear in giving guidance. The breakfast was sumptuous. We had a family suite with two rooms. The only thing we wish it could be better is to have a shower room in the suite. However we enjoyed the public onsen bath, with a shower room. The place was spotless, authentically decorated, well-preserved Japanese culture and hospitality. Thank you!

Excellent service

If you are looking for a true Japanese experience stay here. Wish we booked longer than one night. Very friendly staff and helpful. Felt like we were getting the full cultural experience. A bit outside of the city area but well worth it!

The staff were so friendly and welcoming. We greatly enjoyed meeting and chatting with them. The breakfast was delicious and they took care to accommodate our vegetarian request. The room was clean, comfortable, and very cozy. The onsen was wonderful!

We had an excellent stay at the Irori Yado Hidaya. The staff are excellent and make your stay great by their attention to detail and their friendliness. The hotel is a traditional Ryokan i.e. you sleep on futons, have floor seats etc. and we loved embracing this for 2 nights. The hotel offers free incence, candy, tea, and you can try on Yukata's on and even borrow them to go into town. The only things to note is that there are no showers in the room, and if you wish to shower you have to use the communal onsen (seperated by gender). This does not bother me personally, however you have to go naked into the Onsen, which may put some people off. We loved the experience, and want to thank all the staff again for being excellent.

The staff tried very hard to welcome us and introduce us to Japanese culture and customs which was very interesting and helpful. The traditional Japanese breakfast was fantastic. The small touches like origami teaching and incense burning was special.

We really enjoyed staying here. Great staff and very helpful. It was cool experience to have the fireplace in the room and pick our own yukata. We appreciate all the staff to make us feeling “ home”.

I loved everything of this accommodation except transportation. I was really satisfied with super friendly and nice service and very traditional Japanese atmosphere which I really wanted. If I come back to Dakayama once again, I’ll definitely come back here! for the location, I would recommend you to take a taxi unless you are okay with walking about 30mins from station and bus terminal. Taxi usually charges you about 1000~1200 yen for about 7~9mins of driving distance.

Excellent Ryokan. Very friendly staff and sumptuous breakfast

The property was clean and interesting as an old Ryokan. But they have NO PRIVATE RESTROOMS and the stairs were very steep. My knees couldn’t handle the stairs and my wife requires a private bathroom so we left to another property. Satirical was very nice but refused to refund the unused dates of our reservation. We were only there one night. Expedia.com also refused refunding unused dates. So if you like a private restroom Do Not Stay here!

Highly recommend. The staff is super attending, the breakfast is delicious and the Onsen is relaxing.

This place is magic, staff hospitality is from another world. Had a fantastic 2 night stay, pampered with every single detail. 110% recomended. Horisaki and Haruka are over the top!

Excellent staff, spoke very good English, very helpful and friendly. Great facilities with a traditional Japanese greeting on check-in. Very warm and welcoming

Excellent Japanese hospitality! Staff was very helpful and had tried very best in explaining everything. On the day of check out the staff even took us by his own car to the train station free of charge as we could not book a taxi. Breakfast offered was of good quality.

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it’s great, very kind people, very traditional Japanese style inn.

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