History Main / RyokanInn

* The ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' OAV ''Versus'' is centred around a Ryokan.

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** In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' they also stay at a Ryokan in Kyoto and one at a beach. WordOfGod says they are the same locations.

** Touta and Kirie also stay at that very same Ryokan in ''Manga/UQHolder'' during a trip to Kyoto.

For more information see Wiki/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryokan_%28Japanese_inn%29 article linked here.]]

* A suicide club in ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'' ends up here after several failed suicides attempts in the woods nearby. While they lie awake on their futons fantasizing about Shonen Bat killing them all right there, who should show up in the next room?

** The characters stay at a Ryokan in Kyoto and one at a beach.

* The ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' OAV ''Versus'' is centred around a Ryokan.
* ''Manga/CaseClosed'' has had at least 10 episodes set at one of these places, and in every one there has been a murder.
* ''Anime/HanasakuIroha'' takes place in one with hot springs. It is focusing on its workers.
* ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam'' episode 7 "Promise at the Resort". Taro takes the maids to one of these places to enjoy the hot springs.

* ''Manga/HereIsGreenwood'': Shun's family's owns a Ryokan

* ''Manga/{{Nana}}'' - Nobu in Nana is the heir of his family's Ryokan but he'd rather just play the guitar.
* ''Manga/{{Bartender}}'' - Miwa's family used to run an old-fashioned hotel chain before they modernized.
* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': The Sohma family owns one, which is run by Ritsu's mother. They visit it in the HotSpringsEpisode.
* The main characters of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' go to one right after the BeachEpisode chapter. Of course, Nozaki is only interested in getting reference material for his manga.
* ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'': Natsume stays at one while on the trip with his study group during which he met the young kitsune. He goes to another one later with Tanuma which Tanuma spent a lot of time at as a sickly child in order to attend a festival Tanuma never got to go to since he was always ill due to his reaction to the presence of youkai.

* ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'': Chika Takami's family owns and lives in one.
* In ''Manga/NewGame'', Tsubame Narumi is the daughter of the owners of an inn in Hokkaido. Her parents want her to take over the inn, while she wants to go into the gaming industry, causing friction between them. Tsubame and the rest of the cast visit the inn for a company vacation.
* In ''Anime/SK8TheInfinity'', during the purported "onsen" episode, Reki is excited, thinking they're going to stay over at a luxurious ryokan where the onsen is obviously attached. Turns out he and his teen friends Langa and Miya's chaperone, Shadow, booked the run-down inn across the street, instead. They wind up barging into the ryokan due to a new friend getting hosted there, though... ''Then'' it turns out the onsen is nowhere near said ryokan.
* In ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'', the Nakanos' grandfather owns one of these, which they (along with Fuutarou and his family) visit during the Scrambled Eggs arc.

* In ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsKingAbaddon'', one of these inns becomes your home base during a chapter of the game. It's complete with a hot springs and a short old lady.

* ''VideoGame/OsuTatakaeOuendan 2'' features a retired lady wrestler who married into a family that runs such an inn and is trying to impress her mother-in-law.
* The ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'' game ''Shadow at the Water's Edge'' is set in a ryokan that doubles as a HellHotel.

* ''Manga/CaseClosed'' has stayed at at least 10 of these and in every one there has been a murder.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' has stayed at at least 10 of these and in every one there has been a murder.

** In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' they also stay at a Ryokan in Kyoto and one at a beach. WordOfGod says they are the same locations.

* ''Manga/KokoWaGreenwood'': Shun's family's owns a Ryokan

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'': The school trip to Kyoto has the students staying at one.

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': Yukiko Amagi's family runs a famous one, which she is being raised to take over. While Yukiko initially feels chained down and unable to choose her path in life, she loves the inn and thinks of the people who work at it as being like family, so by the end of her Social Link, she resolves to stay in Inaba and inherit the inn.

* ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai'' episode 7 "Promise at the Resort". Taro takes the maids to one of these places to enjoy the hot springs.

* ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'':

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': Yukiko Amagi's family runs a famous one which she will take over soon.