FIVE SPRING RESORT THE SHIRAHAMA, an SLH Hotel ファイブスプリング・リゾート・ザ・シラハマ・SLH 白濱五泉度假村，全球奢華精品酒店

FIVE SPRING RESORT THE SHIRAHAMA is an 18-room resort at 300-2 Shirahama, Nishimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture. It is a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH), a collection of independent luxury hotels, and can also be booked through Hilton. All rooms are suites, and every room has its own hot spring bath.

The resort is all-inclusive: the rate covers breakfast and dinner, drinks during the stay (including alcohol at the bar), the large public bath, the hot spring pool and parking. Some optional menus are charged separately.

JR Shirahama Station and Nanki-Shirahama Airport are each about 10 minutes away by car, with free transfers between the hotel and the airport or station. The limited express Kuroshio reaches Shirahama from Shin-Osaka in about 150 minutes, and by car the resort is about 20 minutes from Nanki-Tanabe IC on the Hanwa Expressway. There is free parking for 23 cars.

Rooms are spread across three buildings. DRAGON suites measure 90 sqm including the terrace, with a hot spring bath and direct pool access from the terrace. GIRAFFE suites are 120 sqm with an open-air hot spring bath, and GREAT BEAR suites are 145 sqm and sleep up to eight. Artwork by artists decorates the rooms.

The hot spring water is “pure spring” water, drawn without adjustment from 1,000 meters underground. It is a clear sodium bicarbonate chloride spring. Besides the in-room baths, there is a large public bath with an open-air bath and a 422 sqm heated hot spring pool, the first in Nanki-Shirahama, which guests can use from before check-in until after check-out.

At the restaurant LITTLE BEAR, breakfast is a half buffet with dishes such as spiny lobster, abalone and Kumano beef grilled to order and brought to the table, and dinner is a seasonal kaiseki course by the head chef. The bar KING is open from 9:00 to 23:00, with views of the illuminated infinity pool at night.

All rooms, including terraces, are non-smoking, and guests with tattoos may not use the public bath. Check-in is from 15:00 (last check-in 18:00) and check-out is at 11:00. A bathing tax of 150 yen per person is charged separately.

With hot spring baths in every suite and an all-inclusive rate covering meals and drinks, FIVE SPRING RESORT THE SHIRAHAMA lets guests enjoy Shirahama’s sea and hot springs at a relaxed pace without leaving the resort.