Yukai Resort Gero Saichoraku Honkan in Gero

On a leafy hillside with mountain views, this informal hot spring hotel is a 13-minute walk from Gero train station and a kilometer from the Gero Museum of Hot Springs.Simple rooms feature free Wi-Fi and TVs, as well as minifridges, and tea and coffeemaking facilities; some have tatami floors, chabudai dining tables and/or mountain views. An upgraded room adds an open-air soaking tub with geothermal water.Breakfast and dinner are complimentary, as are parking and a train station shuttle. A gender-segregated communal bathhouse has indoor soaking pools with natural hot spring water. There's also karaoke, a manga library and table tennis.