Rakuten Travel is holding “Early Summer Fair” until June 1, 2012, offering special deals on travel reservations for early summer. By combining Rakuten Coupon and inn coupon distributed during the period, you can save up to 25% off accommodation plans at participating inns.
Oedo Onsen Monogatari Premium Ito Hotel New Okabe (2-1-1 Sakuragi-cho, Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture), located in Ito Onsen, Izu, is now offering a 1-night 2-meal buffet plan. The regular price for a standard Japanese bed twin room for two persons starts at 20,500 yen per person.
This hot spring resort has been loved by many great writers and artists since ancient times. There are two large bathhouses with different atmospheres, and the elegant garden bath with Izu stones is said to be the most popular. Visitors can enjoy the famous hot spring baths both in the morning and at night, as if they were on a hot-spring tour.
Dinner is a “seafood buffet of kinmedai and abalone,” which is offered exclusively at the inn. Kinmedai, a local fish representative of Izu, is served in a variety of ways, including sashimi, nigiri, simmered dishes, and takikomi-gohan (cooked rice). The all-you-can-eat seafood buffet also includes steamed abalone.
The lineup of about 90 other dishes also includes roast beef, broiled eel, natural tuna medium fatty tuna nigiri, Fuji salmon sashimi, and “Inatori meat fried rice,” a local delicacy of Higashi Izu.
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