TAOYA Aso Rates: What the All-Inclusive Price Covers and What Costs Extra

Early-December weekday (night of 1 Dec) — two adults, one room, dinner and breakfast, total47,400JPYJPY 23,700 per person • tax included • read on the official booking screen on 12 October 2026

Property

TAOYA Aso (Ooedo Onsen Monogatari group)

Opened

1 July 2026

Address

5-35 Kawakage, Minamiaso Village, Aso District, Kumamoto

Included

Dinner and breakfast buffets, alcohol with dinner, lounge drinks, afternoon tea, night afternoon tea, a late-night snack, massage chairs

Charged extra

Private baths (JPY 2,000 for 45 minutes), à la carte dishes, karaoke after 7 p.m., the shop

Access

About 50 minutes by car from Kumamoto IC; about 30 minutes by car from Aso Kumamoto Airport; about 7 minutes by shuttle bus from Minami-Aso-mizu-no-umareru-sato-Hakusui-kogen station (reservation required)

Checked on

2026-10-12

TAOYA Aso, which opened in Minamiaso Village, Kumamoto, on 1 July 2026, is an inn with an “all-inclusive” price: alcohol at dinner and drinks in the lounge are part of the room rate. Looking at one night for two adults in one room with dinner and breakfast, date by date on the official booking screen, an early-December weekday came to JPY 47,400 and a Saturday ran from JPY 70,800 to JPY 106,000. The rate swings widely with the night and the room type.

The rate moves with the date and the room: JPY 47,400 on a December weekday, JPY 70,800 and up on Saturdays

Prices appear on the booking screen once you enter dates and guests. The table below shows the total for the “dinner and breakfast, standard buffet plan” for two adults in one room. The member price is exactly 90% of the total shown.

Note that the room type differs by date. The 1 and 8 December prices are for a shower-only room (25 m²); the 21 and 28 November and 29 December prices are for a room with an in-room bath (26 m²). Because the room types differ, not all of the gaps in the table are gaps in date. On the three Tuesdays the booking screen showed no rooms for these conditions.

The JPY 47,400 for dinner and breakfast on 1 December works out at JPY 23,700 a head. The plan with breakfast but no dinner was JPY 45,200 that day, and room only was JPY 44,000. Adding dinner with unlimited alcohol raised the price by JPY 2,200 for the room, and adding breakfast by JPY 1,200. On this day the room accounts for most of the price.

What is included switches by time of day, from late afternoon into the night

The official facilities page marks as free: afternoon tea, night afternoon tea, the lounge, the late-night snack, the high-performance massage chairs, loaned games, the courtyard, Wi-Fi throughout and parking. Afternoon tea, from about 14:00 to 17:00, centres on freshly made cakes such as a Mont Blanc; night afternoon tea, from about 17:00 to 22:00, offers baked sweets and fruit to go with local sake and wine. Alcohol in the lounge is served from the afternoon.

Dinner is at THE FRAME from 17:00 to 21:30, on a 90-minute limit, and the hours can change with how busy the night is. The buffet has teppanyaki sukiyaki of Japanese black beef from the live kitchen, plus roast chicken and Aka beef keema curry; from September 2026 to February 2027 the autumn-winter menu adds a winter yellowtail and root-vegetable hotpot and seared pork belly ssam. Haagen-Dazs ice cream is also all you can eat. Alcohol with dinner is free, and breakfast (07:00 to 10:00, on a 60-minute limit) comes with a free glass of sparkling wine.

For the baths, the open-air baths “Gakunoen” and “Keinowaku” alternate between men and women, with water of the sodium bicarbonate type, known as a beautifying spring. Bathing is open 15:00 to 24:00 and 05:00 to 10:00. There is also a sauna and a cold plunge.

Charged extra: private baths, à la carte dishes and karaoke after 7 p.m.

There are two private baths, and they cannot be reserved ahead: apply by 23:00 on the day, and a cleaning of about 15 minutes follows each use. The shop and anniversary cakes are also charged. The à la carte dishes are added on top of the buffet, which suits adding a single dish to a celebration dinner.

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Getting there: by car, or by shuttle bus from Hakusui-kogen station in about 7 minutes

By car it is about 50 minutes from Kumamoto IC on the Kyushu Expressway and about 30 minutes from Aso Kumamoto Airport, with free parking for about 50 cars. By train, take the shuttle bus from Minami-Aso-mizu-no-umareru-sato-Hakusui-kogen station on the Minamiaso Railway, about 7 minutes. Guests can ride it if they reserve beforehand; the contribution is JPY 100 each way, and the booking closes at 18:00 the day before. Same-day bookings are not taken.

The bus leaves the station at 14:05 and 15:40 and the hotel at 10:30, so it runs once or twice a day. Check-in is 15:00 and check-out 11:00; the 15:40 bus arrives just before 16:00, in time for afternoon tea, which runs to about 17:00. The local bus from Nakamatsu Station takes about 7 minutes to the JA Kukino Fuel Station stop, followed by a walk of about 20 minutes.

There are 11 room types, from the Standard Twin (26 m², 1–2 guests, in-room bath) to the Superior Four (64 m², 1–4 guests, in-room bath) and an 8-mat Japanese-style room for 1–3. With three guests, the third bed is a sofa bed or a sliding “parent-and-child” bed. A futon for a child under three cannot be added beyond the room’s capacity, because of the room’s size.

Source: Ooedoonsen Monogatari group official site, “TAOYA Aso” (facilities, dining, baths, rooms, access) / the official booking site (searched on 12 October 2026 for two adults in one room) / rates are what the booking screen showed and change by date / checked 2026-10-12