Manseiro

Honestly, we booked Manseiro for their seafood. The Kaiseki dinner was the best we ever had (and we had many in Japan for last 2 decades) with super fresh and premium ingredients! We stayed 2 nights and the 2nd night’s dinner was even better than the 1st night! Very grateful for the detail attention given by our server (a senior lady) and the chef. Fantastic location, just 7min walk from Kii-Katsuura station, 5min walk to JF Katsuura port that host the largest tuna fish auction in Japan every morning, and a short ferry ride right from the front door to their sister hotel’s popular 2 cave onsens. This ryokan has very good and clean onsen facilities too, with much less crowd compared to their big sister hotel!

We stayed in an ocean view, Japanese-style room. We would have preferred a non-smoking room, but only smoking rooms were available—Iuckily there was not a smoke smell and it wasn't an issue at all. Location and view were great, walkable to the train station. There were plenty of ferries to the other hotel for the cave onsen. Breakfast was also delicious!

The traditional Japanese breakfast was included with the tariff and it was fabulous. Lots of little dishes beautifully presented on a tray. Included a thin slice of tuna (Katsuura is a tuna fishing port) which you grill on a small fire in a pot.

onsen, food, free trip to 望归洞 onsen, the new ce staff. those were all worth value.

Very nice comfortable japanese style room. Balcony facing the sea. Clean. Good breakfast. Not too far from station (maybe 8 min walk, easy). It was wonderful to have free access to Urashima resort. Their hot sprigs were awesome (two are caves facing the sea. WONDERFUL) (you get there taking a free ferry in front of the hotel)