Best Hotels in Mie Prefecture, Japan: Ise-Shima Luxury Stays
Travellers searching for hotels in Mie, Japan, will find the prefecture's strongest luxury cluster around Ise-Shima. It is where Japan keeps its holiest shrine and its pearl coast, a national park of pine-fringed bays. Four stays in the catalogue cover an onsen resort, a ryokan, an auberge and a villa base, led by three-Key Amanemu. This is a slow, water-facing corner of the map.
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Luxury hotels in Mie Prefecture: Amanemu first
Amanemu is Aman's onsen resort, set above Ago Bay in the national park, and one of only seven stays in Japan to hold three MICHELIN Keys. It brought a spa-and-thermal-water calm to a coast that had always had the pearls and the shrine but never quite this. It is also the reason many travellers put Ise-Shima on the map at all.
Around the bays
The other hotels and ryokans in Mie on this list are quieter and more personal. Oyado The Earth runs a free-flowing spring near Toba; THE HIRAMATSU Kashikojima puts a small auberge over the water at Ago Bay; and COVA KAKUDA keeps just four villa suites on the Shima shore. Pair any of them with a dawn visit to Ise Jingu, the shrine that rebuilds itself every twenty years.
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How do I reach Ise-Shima?
Kintetsu limited-express trains run from Kyoto, Osaka and Nagoya to Kashikojima at the tip of the peninsula in about two to two-and-a-half hours; most houses collect guests from Ugata or Kashikojima station. It slots naturally after a few days in Kyoto.
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