#Hotel Indigo Inuyama Urakuen Garden Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
A Complete Guide to a Day Trip to Inuyama Castle, Originally Known as 'Baidicheng'
If you find Nagoya a bit boring when visiting central Japan, consider setting aside a day for Inuyama Castle. It's a leisurely visit, and four to five hours should suffice. You'll also have time to check out the popular online spot of the sunglass-wearing Hotei Buddha.
❤️ Must-Visit
🎏【Inuyama Castle】
As one of Japan's five national treasure castles, Inuyama Castle is not to be missed!
Originally named Baidicheng, Inuyama Castle takes its name from Li Bai's poem 'Departing Baidi in the Morning Amongst Colored Clouds'. Compared to the Three Gorges, the landscape here is much more delicate, but the view is still among the best of Japan's many castles. Especially worth visiting is the top floor of the castle tower, where the landscape interspersed with mountains and water is truly worthwhile.
🍵【Yūrakuen | Jo-an Teahouse】
A solitary trip to Inuyama, with the scent of grass and moss drifting in the light rain. Enjoying tea in the national treasure-level teahouse Yūrakuen inside the Indigo Hotel is very pleasant.
🎎【Yama-guruma Pavilion】
You can see four festival floats. During the first weekend of April, there's the Inuyama Festival where 13 floats parade through the area.
🥢 Must-Eat
There are many places to eat and drink in the castle town, and you can have lunch or afternoon tea here
🥩【Nikuhei】
Just buy a 'missile beef' two-course meal, which includes a serving of raw beef sushi and a serving of grilled beef rolls.
🍡【Hontō Charyō】
When you're tired from walking, it's a good place to sit down for tea. Seven different flavors of skewers with matcha.
🧁【cocotomo farm】
If you like coffee desserts, don't miss this shop
🪭 Tour Route
There are three options for departing from Nagoya, take the Meitetsu Limited Express from Nagoya Station towards 【Shin-Tagami】
🚞 Get off at Inuyama Station, return from Inuyama-guchi Station
🚞 Get off at Inuyama-yūen Station, return from Inuyama Station
🚞 Board and alight at Inuyama Station
For this trip, to visit the national treasure teahouse in the Indigo Hotel, I chose the second route. It felt a bit boring after getting off, so it's probably better to get off at Inuyama Station.
Half a day is enough to enjoy Inuyama. Depart from Nagoya after ten in the morning, return in the evening, and even have time to take photos of the Hotei Buddha.
1️⃣ After getting off at Inuyama-yūen Station, first visit the 【National Treasure Teahouse Yūrakuen】 inside Indigo for photos and tea, or go to 【Meiji Village】 for a visit
2️⃣ Go up the hill to visit Inuyama Castle. On weekdays, there's basically no queue to enter the castle tower. But try to avoid weekends, as you may need to queue to enter Inuyama Castle.
3️⃣ After leaving Inuyama Castle, you can visit 【Haritsuna Shrine】 for safe childbirth, 【Sanko Inari Shrine】 for marriage and fortune, and 【Sarutahiko Shrine】 for traffic safety and business prosperity
4️⃣ Then, search for food along the castle town of Inuyama, or rent a kimono for a costume change. The 【Yama-guruma Pavilion】 is also a spot worth visiting
5️⃣ Finally, take the train back to Nagoya from 【Inuyama Station】
6️⃣ If there's time on the way back, you can stop by to visit the popular online spot of the Hotei Buddha (picture 10) to see what the Buddha looks like without sunglasses
Wyatt.Morris@54
Hotel Indigo Inuyama Urakuen Garden, an IHG Hotel
#japantrip
Truly enjoyed our stay at the Hotel Indigo Inuyama Urakuen garden! This hotel has a lot of wow factors. From the spectacular view, very well maintained (spotless clean) room, to the friendly staff. The onsen was great, free access to the tea garden was definitely a highlight!The breakfast was not very impressed tbh, but good enough. We are very happy with the stay and will come back again if we got a chance. Highly recommended!overall ok
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Ayai87
Hotel Indigo Inuyama Urakuen Garden, an IHG H
#japantrip
Finally a Great IHG indigo property which is rare in Japan rather than those 1980s Crowne Plazas.
Fantastic room and garden as well as Onsen.
Great recognition of my Diamond elite.
Staffs are super friendly, just that the standard of English needs to be improved.Restaurant is offering decent semi-buffet.I would preferred them to offer kaiseiki style set menu instead.overall awesome
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Ayai87
Hotel Indigo Inuyama Urakuen Garden
#2024wish
One of the best Hotel Indigo hotels in the world for sure. Rooms and reception were beautiful with great views of Inuyama Castle, garden and the river. Staff were so polite and welcoming. Onsen and gym were very modern with great equipment. The moment you walk in it is a chilled and relaxing place to be. Photos do not do it justice, highly recommended.overall it awesome
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Ayai87
Hotel Indigo Inuyama Urakuen Garden
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A very luxury, modern, nice room. One of the top three in Nagoya. The location is not in the heart of city center, but you can easily to access if u ride with a car.
The hotel has a rule they don't allow guest to wear japanese kimono (they provided) walk to the lobby area, we got warned in the afternoon. But we still saw people wear the kimono and seated in the bar at the lobby. It's double standard. And another thing their service has some problem is when we check in, everything just very smooth.overall this hotel awesome