[Stay Report] Staying at Spa & Hotel Isawa Kenko Land! Photos of the Saunas and Breakfast Buffet

This time I stayed at “Spa & Hotel Isawa Kenko Land” in the Isawa Onsen area of Yamanashi!

It wasn’t just the baths: the meals at the restaurant and the breakfast buffet were so substantial that I’ll report in full with plenty of food photos!

Isawa Kenko Land is a large hot spring facility in Fuefuki, Yamanashi, where a “hotel” and a “health land” are combined in a single building.

It’s open 24 hours and has everything from baths, a restaurant, and massage to manga and a game corner.

I’ve put together a look inside the facility along with photos from my stay.

This time there are especially many photos of food!
Please get a feel for the atmosphere of the restaurant “Wagokoro” and the breakfast buffet from the photos.

What You’ll Learn in This Article

• Basic information and access for Isawa Kenko Land (shuttle bus from JR Isawa-Onsen Station)
• The in-facility map and the front desk and lobby
• The size, facilities, and room wear of the room (single type)
• Information on the 20+ kinds of baths, saunas (including the Isaken SAUNA at 80 degrees), and bedrock bathing
• The menu at the restaurant “Wagokoro” and an overview of the breakfast buffet
• Facilities to enjoy inside, such as massage, manga, and games
• Parking, reviews and ratings, and FAQ

If you’d like to compare with other hotels in Yamanashi, please also see the Dormy Inn Kofu comparison article.

Basic Information and Access for Isawa Kenko Land

Item	Details
Hotel name	Spa & Hotel Isawa Kenko Land
Address	868 Matsumoto, Isawa-cho, Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture (406-0021)
Phone	055-263-7111
Hours	24 hours
Check-in / Check-out	15:00〜24:00／11:00
Access	About a 20-minute walk from JR Isawa-Onsen Station, or the free shuttle bus (about 5 minutes)
By car	About 25 minutes from Ichinomiya-Misaka IC, about 30 minutes from Kofu-Showa IC
Parking	Free
Facilities	20+ kinds of baths and saunas (including the Isaken SAUNA at 80 degrees), bedrock bathing, ceramic bath, restaurant, cafe, massage, manga, games

*Prices and hours may change, so please check the latest information before booking.

In-Facility Map | Start by Checking the Whole Layout

This is the 1st-floor map next to the front desk.
It’s a very large facility, so checking where things are first makes it easier to get around.
Without the map, I’d probably get lost just going from the bath back to my room.

This is the facility guide board.
Floors 3 to 5 are guest rooms, with facilities on the 2nd and 1st floors.

The 2nd-floor map shows the rooms and relaxation-related floors.

Entrance, Front Desk, and Lobby

Just inside the entrance, colorful shoe lockers are lined up.
The style is to take your shoes off inside. For feet tired from hiking, this is perfect.

The front desk is straight ahead.
The spacious lobby with its high ceiling was impressive.

Vending machines are lined up at the back of the lobby.

Checking out is done at an automatic payment machine.
Next to it was a “wristband return box,” so it seems wristbands are used inside the facility.

The lobby also had a sightseeing brochure corner.
Looking for your next destination is fun too.

The cute character panel says “There’s a free shuttle bus!”
The laid-back character recommends the shuttle bus with all its might.
Being able to use the bus from the station is welcome on days with lots of luggage.

However, there’s information that the shuttle bus runs infrequently.
It’s reassuring to check the times on the official site in advance.

Rooms | Checking the 5th-Floor Single Room

I stayed in a single-type room on the 5th floor.
It’s compact, but had everything needed for a good night’s rest.

The 5th-floor common area had shelves with room wear lined up by size, a corner with a pot and teacups, and a “room wear return box” in front.

There were lots of electric fans lying around, which felt kind of surreal.

This is the corridor on the guest room floor.
It has blue carpeting and a calm atmosphere.

The door number is “501.”
It has a simple look, typical of a hotel room.

When I opened the door, a facility guide was posted right beside it.

The bed is a single size for one person.
It’s dressed in white sheets.

By the window are curtains, a desk, a trash can, and an air purifier.
The layout is compact, but everything is there.

On the desk were a TV, a telephone, an ashtray, and facility flyers.
The ashtray gives it a slightly nostalgic feel.

The small refrigerator has usage instructions posted on it.

Open the door and, of course, it’s empty. You can chill drinks you bring in.

The closet is the type with a bar for hanging hangers.

This is the room wear (top and bottom set).
It was a combination of a navy jacket and brown pants.

The toilet and vanity are compactly arranged.
There’s no bath in the room; the style is to use the large public baths in the facility.

Hot Springs, Saunas, and Bedrock Bathing | 20+ Kinds of Baths and Saunas!

Isawa Kenko Land’s number one attraction is, without a doubt, the baths.
With baths and saunas combined there are over 20 kinds, plus bedrock bathing and even a ceramic bath!
The long bathing hours are also something only a health land can offer.

I don’t have photos from inside the baths this time, so the photos in this chapter are quoted from the official Isawa Kenko Land website.

Large Public Bath and Open-Air Bath

According to the official site, the baths are extremely varied, including pressure-jet and bubble baths, a nano-bubble carbonated spring, a natural radium ore bath, a lying bath, an herbal bath, a carbonated spring, and a stone bath.

This is the men’s open-air bath.
The official site introduces it as the “Shingen-ko Kakushi-shio Yu (salt hot-spring therapy),” a bath using seawater containing salt and minerals.

The “ceramic bath” is a bath you can enjoy alone while looking up at the wide sky.

For detailed hot spring information such as the water quality, please check the latest on the official site.

At the bath entrances, navy and reddish noren marked “Men” and “Women” were lined up.

Lots of towels are stacked at the front desk.

Hotels with unlimited towels are getting rare these days, so I’m really grateful!

Checking the Various Baths with Photos

I’ll introduce the baths listed on the official site with photos!

The nano-bubble carbonated spring is a bath containing nano-level fine bubbles and carbonation.
The milky-white water is striking.

The full-body bath aims for relaxation and better circulation with warmth and pressure-jet stimulation.

The natural radium ore bath uses radium ore from Futamata Onsen in Hokkaido.

The lying bath is a bath you stretch out in, in a shallow tub.
It’s said to improve blood and lymph flow.

The herbal bath is said to promote circulation and metabolism with extracts of Chinese herbal medicine.

The stone bath uses Seiryu stone containing iron and titanium.

The carbonated spring is a bath said to improve circulation through the power of carbonation.

The reclining bath lets you lie down and soak at leisure.

The body jets are a bath aiming for a massage effect through bubble stimulation.

The water-massage bath loosens you up with a strong stream of water.
This one is the low-stimulation type.

The “Kisekido,” which touts the purifying effect of crystal power stones.
The photo on the official site is labeled “women’s open-air bath.”

Saunas and Cold Plunge | Spotlight on the Isaken SAUNA (80 degrees)

What sauna fans should look at is the “Isaken SAUNA” in the men’s bath area!

The temperature is 80 degrees.
It’s a proper self-loyly sauna using a HARVIA sauna heater.

When you pour water on the sauna stones, steam envelops the whole sauna room.
It’s a self-service style where you do the loyly at your own timing.

There’s no TV, BGM, thermometer, or other information display, making it a space where you can focus on heat, steam, and silence.
The lighting is indirect, giving a calm atmosphere.

The sauna in the men’s bath area, originally a salt sauna, was fully renovated and reopened on August 1, 2026.
It’s a sauna pursuing the true comfort of a sauna, carrying on the “Shinken SAUNA” of Shinshu Kenko Land, without a doubt!!

The cold plunge is a newly installed single-person Shigaraki-ware tub.
A “gushing shower” usable before and after the cold plunge has also been introduced.
Cool down without minding those around you! Fantastic!

Isawa Kenko Land has 6 kinds of saunas in all

I’ve put the contents of the official site into a table.

Sauna	Temperature	Features
Isaken SAUNA (men only)	80 degrees	Self-loyly with a HARVIA heater
Hot-air sauna	80 to 95 degrees	Automatic loyly with controlled wind, heat, and humidity
Mist sauna	50 to 55 degrees	Gentle sweating at low temperature in the scent of mugwort
Salt sauna (women only)	40 to 45 degrees	A sauna said to clean pores with natural salt
Low-temperature sauna (men only)	60 to 75 degrees	A sauna to sit in slowly at low temperature
Healing sauna (women only)	60 to 75 degrees	A dimly lit room with little stimulation

*“Men only” and “women only” are the notations in the official site’s photos.
The saunas available differ by gender, so if you’re curious, please check in advance.

The hot-air sauna is an automatic-loyly type.
At 80 to 95 degrees, it’s introduced as being for those who want to sweat properly.

After the sauna, cool your flushed body in the cold plunge.
For the latest conditions such as temperature and crowding, please check on-site.

Bedrock Bathing

The bedrock bathing area is marked by a stone-style entrance.
A “Ladies’ Day” banner was also standing at the entrance.

Bedrock bathing has several rooms, including a healing room, Yakusekido, Magmado, Salt Dome, and a cool-down room.
Yakusekido is shared by men and women, and Bisekido is women-only.

This is the “Magmado.”
It’s introduced as a lava bath containing over 30 kinds of minerals.

Bedrock bathing prices and hours may change, so please check the official site.

Meals | Soba Restaurant “Wagokoro” and the Breakfast Buffet

The facility also has a large dining space with lots of table seats.
It has an atmosphere that looks usable for resting, too.

Meals at the Soba Restaurant “Wagokoro”

The restaurant is “Soba-dokoro Wagokoro,” marked by red lanterns.
Hours are 11:00 to 23:00 (last order 22:30), so you can use it late.

For meals, the style is to buy a meal ticket at the machine near the entrance.
There was a notice about scanning a barcode.

The wall is lined with menus with photos of the dishes.
Everything looks delicious, and it’s hard to choose!

The display case at the entrance had food samples lined up.
The range is wide, from omurice and cutlets to rice bowls and noodles.
Just standing in front of the case, I could easily spend a good 5 minutes deciding.

These are hearty menu items such as set meals with sashimi, tempura, and soba.

Torimotsu set meal

What I chose was the torimotsu set meal!
On the tray are torimotsu, noodles, rice, and small side dishes.

Here’s a close-up of the torimotsu.
It’s coated in a glossy sauce and topped with an egg yolk.
It looks like it would go great with rice.
It makes you want a beer too, a dangerous one!!

Ankake rice bowl and fried chicken set meal

What I ate in the evening was a set meal of an ankake rice bowl with fried chicken. It came with small side dishes and miso soup, a full-volume meal!!
The thick, ingredient-packed ankake looks like it would warm you up.
With fried chicken on top of the bowl as well, it’s a full-stomach course for sure.

Breakfast Buffet | Surprised by the Number of Items

Breakfast is a buffet style in a large hall.
The notice said breakfast hours are 6:30 to 10:00, with admission until 9:30.
On Sundays and holidays you can use it from 6:00.

Near the entrance are a coffee machine and a drink corner.
Many people probably start with a cup first.

From here, I’ll introduce the dishes that were lined up by category.

Salads and Small Dishes

The salad corner has plenty of leafy greens such as lettuce.

You can choose toppings such as wakame, carrots, cucumbers, and corn.

Small dishes such as broccoli, potato salad, and macaroni-salad-like items were also lined up.

Japanese breakfast staples such as chilled tofu and eggs, too.

The small-dish corner has so many kinds that you’d easily end up taking this and that.

Side dishes such as ham and tamagoyaki are lined up too.

There were simmered dishes like kiriboshi daikon, and boiled eggs.

Hot Dishes

The hot-dish corner has stir-fried vegetables and more.

Sweet-sauce meatballs and crispy bacon.
A lineup that makes the rice disappear from the morning.

If you put a little each of sausage, ham, shumai, stew, and so on, the sectioned plate fills up fast.

Shumai in a steamer basket were also lined up.

Sausages are a breakfast staple too.

A corner of scrambled eggs and fried foods.

Crispy croquettes were lined up too.

There were also vegetable dishes such as pumpkin and simmered dishes.

The combination of grilled salmon and tamagoyaki is a sectioned-plate classic.

Bread, Cereal, Noodles, and Soups

The bread corner has croissants, dinner rolls, sliced bread, and more.

You can also choose cereals such as granola.

Noodles in small bowls were also prepared.
Handy when you want just a little alongside other dishes.

A large pot held an orange soup.

Miso soup is poured from a machine.
There was a sign saying “Miso soup with iriko dashi.”

Fruit and Yogurt

The dessert corner has yogurt and fruit.

There was also refreshing fruit such as pineapple and oranges.

Small cup desserts are also lined up in numbers.

My Breakfast

For my breakfast, I took a little at a time of houtou, rice, salad, small dishes, grilled salmon, shumai, and more!
…or so I say, but my tray quickly got jammed up.

And the Yamanashi specialty “houtou”!
Wide noodles, generously in the bowl.
When you come to Yamanashi, it’s a bowl you really want to eat.

Facilities to Play and Relax In

Isawa Kenko Land isn’t just baths and meals.
The relaxation and entertainment facilities are so rich you could spend a whole day inside.

Massage and Relaxation Room

There was a board introducing the relaxation and esthetic menus.

Body care was posted with a menu starting at ¥3,960 for 40 minutes (at the time of photographing).

This is the general reception of “Rairakuen.”
Flyers for a relaxation campaign are lined up.

There’s also a room with massage chairs lined up.
They’re chairs with TVs.

Up close, they’re roomy reclining types.
They look like once you sit, you won’t be able to stand up.

A relaxation room lined with reclining chairs with TVs.
Blankets are provided too.

A large room with plenty of reclining chairs.
It looks like a place to flop down after a bath.

Manga and Internet

The “Manga & Internet” corner has a stylish glass-door entrance.

There’s even a hammock inside!
It’s a strange space where you can read manga while swaying.
Why a hammock for reading manga? Without thinking too hard, you just want to lie down and try it.

Manga shelves line an entire wall.

Internet and unlimited e-comic reading inside the manga room were also advertised.

Game Corner, Cafe, and Shop

The game corner has crane games and capsule toys lined up.
It’s a danger zone where the coins in your wallet vanish.

At the back was a game-center-like space with rows of game machines.

There’s also a relaxed cafe, “The cafe.”

The hours were noted as 9:00 to 15:00.

Menus of drinks, sweets, and light meals are lined up.

On the 1st floor there was also a shop selling souvenirs and more.

Reviews and Ratings

On Rakuten Travel it was rated 4.20 (1,485 reviews) (as of when I checked).
It’s a popular facility that many people stay at.

Points I Learned from Staying

Good points

• Rich saunas. The men’s bath area has the 80-degree self-loyly “Isaken SAUNA,” and there are 6 kinds of saunas in all.
• Open 24 hours, with lots of freedom. The baths and the restaurant can be used late.
• Substantial meals. Soba restaurant “Wagokoro” has a wide range of menu items, and in the morning there’s a buffet with many dishes.
• You can spend a whole day inside. Massage, manga, games, and other relaxation facilities are all there.

Concerns

• The room is compact. The single type is just big enough for a bed and a desk.
• It’s a bit far on foot from the station. It’s about a 20-minute walk from JR Isawa-Onsen Station, so it’s reassuring to check the shuttle bus times.
• The facility is large. Looking at the in-facility map first makes it harder to get lost.

Access and Parking

By train, it’s about a 20-minute walk from JR Isawa-Onsen Station.
There’s also a free shuttle bus, with a ride of about 5 minutes.
However, it runs infrequently, so check the times in advance.

By car, it’s about 25 minutes from Ichinomiya-Misaka IC on the Chuo Expressway and about 30 minutes from Kofu-Showa IC.
Parking is free, but information on the number of spaces is divided, so it’s reassuring to check in advance during holiday weekends when you’re worried about it being full.

I’ve summarized Yamanashi’s sightseeing spots in this article.

Frequently Asked Questions About Isawa Kenko Land

Summary | Recommended for Those Who Want to Enjoy Both Food and Baths

Spa & Hotel Isawa Kenko Land was a facility where you can spend a whole day, with 20+ kinds of baths and saunas, a restaurant, and even a breakfast buffet!

• Those who want to fully enjoy both baths and food
• Those who want to use a restaurant late into the night
• Those who want to taste Yamanashi food such as houtou at the breakfast buffet
• Those who want to relax inside the facility with manga and massage