In January 2023, I stayed at the natural hot spring Dandan-no-Yu Oyado Nono-Matsue in Matsue, Shimane, which I will introduce in this blog!
When traveling in the San-in region, I highly recommend Nono Matsue because it offers a ryokan-like atmosphere with hot spring baths and is reasonably priced.
This time, we had a plan that included breakfast, and since we also enjoyed Shimane’s local menu, we will introduce the breakfast as well, so please take a look!
Access to Nono Matsue
Access will be as follows.
- By train
- Approximately 12 minutes walk from JR Matsue Station
Yonago and Sakaiminato in the Tottori area and Izumo in the Izumo area are only an hour away respectively, making it a perfect location for a San-in travel base.
Nono Matsue Rooms
The entire building is covered with tatami mats, giving the hotel a Japanese-style atmosphere.
You will feel as if you are in a ryokan (Japanese-style inn) with the Japanese-style atmosphere, which you cannot experience in a regular business hotel.
The Japanese-style ryokan-like atmosphere will soothe away your fatigue!
Also, since the building is new, opened in April 2022, the facilities are beautiful and clean.
Double room
Double rooms have one large desk, a chair, and one 140 cm wide double bed.
There is a partition between the room with the bed and the space with the toilet and bathroom water supply.
The bed has an electrical outlet on one side only.
The tatami room gives you a Japanese atmosphere and a sense of gentleness, making you feel like you are in a ryokan!
This is the TV side. There is also a desk on the TV side.
The washroom is separate and clean.
Two bottles of water were also provided.
Amenities are not in the room, but can be obtained at the front desk.
There was a hairbrush, razor, toothbrush, cotton swabs, and green tea.
This type of room has a toilet and a shower room in one.
The building itself is new, and the shower rooms are clean.
As a welcome service, there was Shimane’s local drink, “Yuzukko!”
This drink, made with Shimane’s famous yuzu citrus, was so refreshing and delicious!
Large public bath at Nono Matsue
The large public bath has a hot spring component and a sauna.
Open air bath
The open-air bath offers an open-air view of Matsue. The bath has hot spring water from its own source, which is effective in beautifying the skin and relieving fatigue.
It was very pleasant to take a bath while the San-in wind blew.
Nono Matsue’s extensive services
Nono Matsue is characterized by the abundance of services offered.
Yonaki soba
Yonaki soba (buckwheat noodle) service is available.
The flavor is a light soy sauce flavored ramen, which can be easily eaten even after a nighttime meal.
Breakfast at Nono Matsue
This hotel has prepared a menu of “local delicacies” and You can enjoy different dishes at each inn!
Nono Matsue’s local delicacies are Wariko Soba Noodles and Okonomiyaki Kaisen Don!
We have enjoyed many of Nono Matsue’s local delicacies, which we will introduce below!
Izumo soba noodles and freshly fried tempura are excellent
Izumo Soba, a local dish widely eaten in Shimane Prefecture, is made from buckwheat flour with a strong flavor.
It is served in a bowl called “Wariko” and called “Wariko Soba.
The buckwheat noodles served in wariko are topped with soba-tsuyu (buckwheat sauce).
It is also delicious when eaten with condiments such as wild vegetables and grated radish.
It is nice to be able to enjoy authentic Izumo soba at the hotel breakfast.
You can also enjoy freshly fried tempura.
The tempura menu included oysters, sweet potatoes, lotus root, and shrimp.
It was very rare and very luxurious to have oyster tempura at the hotel.
It tasted so good that I still look at this picture and wish I could eat oyster tempura.
Kaisendon with many ingredients
One of Nono Matsue’s local delicacies, the Okonomi-Kaisen-don allows you to choose as much seafood as you like and have it in a Kaisen-don!
The seafood menu included Buri, snow crab, salmon roe, and negitoro.
The Buri was very tasty with a large piece of fish.
And with salmon roe as much as you can put on it, you can eat as much Kaisen-don as you like in the morning!
Cold dish
The menu of cold dishes is as follows
Ponzu ponzu sauce with fugu skin, grated yam with mozuku seaweed, dressed shijimi with u-no-hana, soaked spinach and yuba, lotus root kinpira, thick-baked egg, natto (fermented soybeans)
Hot dish
Hot dishes included the following
fried egg, scrambled egg, sausage, fried chicken, crab cream croquette
Salad & Dessert
Salads included the following.
Green Salad, Daikon Salad, Fruit Yogurt Salad, Mentaiko Potato Salad, Bacon Penne Salad, and Colorful Tomatoes.
Fruits included orange, grapefruit, apple, and kiwi.
Bread
Breads included croissants, danishes, and milk bread.
Drink
There was Shimane Winery’s original non-alcoholic grape juice!
I actually drank it, and it had a mellow, full-flavored, authentic grape juice!
Summary
How was your stay? In this article, we have provided a report on our stay at Nono Matsue.
This hotel is recommended for San-in travel, as it is easily accessible to sightseeing spots such as Matsue and Izumo.
The breakfast where you can enjoy the local menu to your heart’s content and the large public bath where you can bathe in hot spring water are also attractive.
Thank you for reading this article.
