1 / 24

Itaniya

Name: Itaniya
Address: Hase 828, Sakurai, JP

★★★·8.4/ 10Recommended

·Ryokans

📍Hase 828 · Sakurai ↗

📞0081578892004

Offsite parking discounted rates availableFree beach shuttleAir conditioningFamily roomsLuggage storageSafety deposit boxAll 18 facilities +

Review

Official

Ryokan Itaniya is perfectly located for both business and leisure guests in Nara. The hotel offers a wide range of amenities and perks to ensure you have a great time. Car park, shops, shuttle service, car park onsite, car park free of charge are there for guest's enjoyment. Designed for comfort, selected guestrooms offer television LCD/plasma screen, linens, slippers, towels, air conditioning to ensure a restful night. The hotel's peaceful atmosphere extends to its recreational facilities which include hot spring bath, table tennis. Friendly staff, great facilities and close proximity to all that Nara has to offer are three great reasons you should stay at Ryokan Itaniya.

Guest scores & sentiment

From — guest reviews · multi-source

Dimension scores · cross-source

Service9.6

Location9.5

Surroundings9.2

Cleanliness9.0

Value8.7

Rooms8.6

Facilities8.1

Wi-Fi2.5

No checkout or paid ranking here — commission never drives content.

Book on FlyerTrip →

Nearby & map

DiningSights

Ajinokaze Nishimura

Japanese · ★ Michelin

¥¥¥

Hearty deliciousness is the order of the day here. Simple arrangements convey the sincerity of the chef’s commitment to his craft. Hinohikari rice from Nara Prefecture is cooked in clay pots and seasoned with chirimen sansho (small fish cooked with peppers). The meal concludes with handmade confections served with matcha, to send you on your way feeling relaxed and calm. This Japanese cuisine is woven together with ingredients and crockery from Sakurai. The ‘aji no kaze’ or ‘winds of flavour’ blow gently amid the beauty of nature.

6.0km

Da terra

Italian · ★ Michelin

¥¥¥

A peaceful, traditional rural house surrounded by farmland is home to this restaurant. The shop is an advertisement for the good earth of Asuka, ‘the place where Japan began’, and its bounty. Main ingredients consist of produce cultivated by the chef’s family. One item, a brightly colourful salad, is named “Daichi Kara”, “From the Land”. Wheat is turned into pasta, rice into risotto. Set menus are a journey through the seasons, calculated to inspire gratitude to nature as one proceeds through the meal.

10.7km

Kaiseki Morimoto

Japanese · ★ Michelin

¥¥¥

The interior of the old traditional house is refurbished, yet the Showa-era ambience is unmistakable. The chef cooks alone, dedicated to his credo of serving everything straight from the kitchen to the table. What impresses most are the vegetables. Each plate features leaf and root vegetables grown under the personal care of the chef’s father, a landscape architect. The chef uses restrained seasoning to bring out the flavours of the ingredients. Takikomi-gohan made with vegetables picked that morning is served with house-made pickles. Simple, honest cooking, done as only Morimoto can.

10.8km

Sushi Kawashima

Sushi · ★ Michelin

¥¥¥

Sushi Kawashima pursues its own way in the sushi world, a route that crosses paths with the food culture of Nara. Sashimi is dressed with hishio, a koji-mould and salt-water mixture said to be the origin of soy sauce. Snacks are served with preserved so, a condensed-milk product enjoyed in ancient Japan. Yamato tachibana pepper is a seasoning made from an ancient citrus fruit. Sushi of gizzard shad with persimmon leaf testifies to the chef’s lively imagination. Nigirizushi is formed without wasabi, to bring out the flavours of the topping and sushi rice. Persimmon-leaf tea is a relaxing treat

11.4km

Tsukumo

Japanese · ★★ Michelin

¥¥¥¥

Falling in love with the cultural landscapes of Nara, the chef opened his restaurant in Naramachi, where he weaves the history and customs of the Yamato region into his menu like a story. The source of his originality lies in the imaginative and creative skills he cultivated overseas. When combined with the skills he honed along the way, the result is a cuisine of refreshing novelty. Ingredients from Buddhist vegetarian dishes and Western cuisine are incorporated, telling the tale of his gastronomic journey. Passion for his craft drives the chef to take Japanese cuisine to new levels.

17.4km

akordu

Innovative · ★★ Michelin

¥¥¥

‘Akordu’ is Basque for ‘memories’. Chef Hiroshi Kawashima invokes memories from his ingredients, encapsulating messages in his cooking. Each course in the prix fixe meal comes with a card; menu names are akin to story titles. Kawashima interprets the history and cultural topography of Nara through a modern Spanish sensibility cultivated in Basque country. Cuisine bursting with creativity, beautifully prepared and arranged.

18.4km

NARA NIKON

Japanese · ★★ Michelin

¥¥¥

‘Nikon’, meaning ‘live to the full in this moment’, was the principle advocated by Zen master Dogen Zenji (1200–1253). Every day in his kitchen the chef displays the sincere devotion to Japanese cuisine he has had ever since he began at the bottom of the ladder. He focuses above all on the right timing for handling his ingredients: when to prep, when to slice, and so on. Serving at just the right temperature is vital as well. This craftsman’s spirit of applying every ounce of effort in the present moment is reflected in the name of the restaurant.

18.7km

Ike Edoyakiunagi Asahitei

Unagi / Freshwater Eel · Bib

¥¥

There is a saying about the depth of skill an unagi chef needs: three years to learn how to skewer it, eight to learn how to dress it and a lifetime to learn how to grill it. While grilling unagi might be the most difficult, Hideki Morimoto was tasked with it from a young age by his father, the then owner. Edo-style grilling includes steaming beforehand and is something the father learned while training in Tokyo. He buys in mostly large unagi and far-infrared grills it.

4.0km

Click a row to locate it · distances are approximate. Data from Overture / Michelin / Wikidata.

Itaniya

Guest scores & sentiment

Room types · 3

Japanese-Style Room with Private Bathroom

Japanese-Style Room with Shared Toilet and Bathroom

Japanese-Style Room with toilet and shared bathroom

Facilities · 18

Nearby & map