Hagi

Budget

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Hagi Royal Intelligent Hotel
3000-5 Chinto
+81 0838-21-4589
Rooms from ¥5400 single, ¥7400 double

A good business hotel. Amenities include Internet access and a breakfast of rice balls & miso soup. Rooms have private baths, but there's a small public bath available.

Budget
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Hagi Youth Hostel
109-22 Horiuchi
+81 0838-22-0733
¥2940 per night; breakfast ¥525, dinner ¥945
JR Tamae Station

Excellent location near the castle ruins. Bike rentals available.

Midrange

Midrange
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Senshunraku
467-2 Horiuchi
+81 0838-22-0326
Rooms from ¥11,500

A hot spring inn with easy access to the beach at Kikugahama. The rooms aren't quite sparkling, but the armored samurai mannequins guarding the lobby ought to keep away any troublemakers.

Midrange
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Hagi Honjin
385-8 Chinto
+81 0838-22-5252
Rooms from ¥12,600

Western and Japanese-style rooms in a hotel eight stories tall, with a rooftop lounge and some very nice public baths.

Top end

Top end
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Hokumon Yashiki
210 Horiuchi
+81 0838-22-7521
Rooms ¥20-68,000, including two meals

Elegant Japanese-style rooms with a beautiful garden and outdoor baths. Good seafood dinners as well.

Top end
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Hagi no yado Tomoe
608-53 Hijiwara-Koboji
+81 0838-22-0150
Rooms ¥20-70,000, including dinner and breakfast

The height of luxury in Hagi — this is a gorgeous ryokan with a raked-stone garden, onsen, free pick-up from the train station, and more.

If you're planning to splurge on a traditional Japanese inn, Hagi is a great place to do it; the art of the ryokan is taken seriously here, and the atmospheric old quarters are well worth an early morning or late evening stroll. The local ryokan association (http://www.hagi.ne.jp/) has a booking desk at the Hagi Bus Center 9AM-5:30PM, tel. +81 0838-22-7599.