Hanayashiki Ukifune-en

The hotel is big, the rooms are in Tatami style, but located at a relatively far away from Uji station, you can take taxi to there. Also, you can take 10-min walk along the river to Byodo-in Omotesando. There are numbers of matcha restaurants and cafe. Staff in hotel are hospitality and nice, especially the staff who can communicate with us in English. I had a great day and onsen in the hotel.

An old ryokan that needs maintenance and proper cleaning. On the day of arrival we even found a centipede in the bath tub to welcome us ! Staff is friendly but does not speak much English so a lot of improvising and guessing to get messages across. Quite worrying for us on the last night as the hotel is just next to a river with heavy rainfall overnight all the bridges were locked down for use and we stayed up to watch the rising level of river all night in anticipation of an evacuation.

That is my first time go to uji with my family. when I looking for the accommodation I was attracted by the tatami room type. It was a good chance for us to deeply enjoy the hot spring and Japanese culture. Room is good, staff is nice, breakfast is really Japanese, most important thing is near the byodoin. Uji is less people at night luckily that we can take the taxi at the keihan uji railway, but there are so many flying ants is freak me out when I get off the railway.