Tokaikan (東海館)

Flow of the course

About this spot

Tokaikan is a three-story wooden building constructed in 1928 as a hot-spring inn, and today it is open to the public as a sightseeing facility of Ito City. With its karahafu (唐破風) cusped-gable entrance, elaborately designed ranma (欄間) transoms and inventively crafted bathrooms, it is a valuable building that conveys the essence of early Showa hot-spring inn architecture to this day. You can tour the interior freely, and walking through the guest rooms and corridors that retain traces of the era feels like slipping back in time. It is an atmospheric stop before sea bathing that lets you touch the history of Ito Onsen.

Tips

About 15 minutes on foot from Ito Station (伊東駅). Visitors take off their shoes to tour the interior. It can get busy with families during the summer holidays, so an early morning visit allows a leisurely tour.

Best time to visit

About 1 hour. The cool morning hours are well suited to touring

Access & map

12-10 Higashimatsubara-cho, Ito City, Shizuoka 414-0022