Legal Notice

Website Publisher

Website: RyokanTravel, mainly available from ryokantravel.com.

Publisher: Vincent Chiarenza, Sole Proprietor (EI).

Registered office: Grimbergen, Belgium.

Company registration number: BE1004145186.

VAT number: BE1004145186.

Email address: contact(a)ryokantravel.com.

Phone: +32495367231.

Contact form: Contact and Suggestions page.

Hosting Provider

Host: LWS (Ligne Web Services).

Address: 10 rue Penthievre, 75008 Paris, France.

Phone: +33 (0)1 77 62 30 03.

Website: www.lws.fr.

Nature of the Service

RyokanTravel is an editorial and technical platform focused on finding ryokans in Japan, comparing properties, preparing itineraries, presenting practical travel information, and directing users to third-party partners or booking channels where available.

The website may include ryokan pages, scores, review summaries, filters, maps, favorites, personal lists, itinerary planning tools, shared routes, seasonal content, recommended stay lengths, price links, booking links, forms, a professional space, and suggestion tools.

Unless expressly stated in a dedicated sales flow, RyokanTravel is not a party to contracts entered into between a user and an accommodation provider, booking platform, carrier, insurer, local provider, or any other third party.

Editorial and Commercial Transparency

RyokanTravel may display editorial selections, rankings, filters, badges, scores, price indications, booking buttons, partner links, sponsored placements, affiliate links, or commercial offers. Where a commercial relationship exists, it may influence the presence, order, or monetization of a link, but RyokanTravel aims to keep its editorial information useful and understandable for travelers.

Prices, availability, labels, ratings, and partner information may be imported, cached, inferred, manually edited, or supplied by third parties. They are provided for orientation only and must be checked on the final booking or provider page before purchase.

Intellectual Property

The website structure, texts, selections, rankings, interfaces, scoring methods, graphic elements, logos, itinerary planning components, databases, editorial enrichments, and content produced by RyokanTravel are protected by copyright, database rights, and rules applicable to distinctive signs.

Any reproduction, substantial extraction, competing reuse, scraping, abusive indexing, model training, commercial redistribution, or unauthorized exploitation of the content is prohibited without prior written permission.

Third-party trademarks, photos, property names, descriptive data, reviews, and information remain the property of their respective owners. Their presence on RyokanTravel does not automatically imply affiliation, endorsement, or partnership.

Images, Hotel Content, and Partner Feeds

RyokanTravel may display images, logos, descriptions, amenities, prices, availability indications, location data, and other content supplied by ryokan owners, tourism partners, booking partners, affiliate networks, APIs, data providers, or other third parties.

Any hotel owner, representative, partner, agency, API provider, or affiliate source that submits, uploads, transmits, or makes content available for use on RyokanTravel represents that it has all rights, permissions, licenses, and consents required for that content to be displayed, resized, cached, cropped, optimized, translated, indexed, and used in connection with RyokanTravel's website, search tools, maps, filters, itinerary tools, and promotional placements on the website.

Unless a separate written agreement states otherwise, third-party suppliers remain responsible for the legality, accuracy, rights clearance, and permitted uses of the content they provide. RyokanTravel may remove, replace, disable, or restrict any image or content at any time if ownership, licensing, accuracy, privacy, brand use, or legal compliance is unclear or disputed.

Use of partner images outside the website, including paid ads, social media campaigns, newsletters, downloadable materials, or offline marketing, should be based on the relevant partner agreement or separate permission where required.

Copyright and Takedown Requests

If you believe that an image, logo, text, review excerpt, map element, or other content displayed on RyokanTravel infringes your rights, please contact RyokanTravel through the Contact and Suggestions page or at contact(a)ryokantravel.com.

A useful notice should include: the URL of the disputed content, identification of the protected work, your name and contact details, proof or explanation of your rights, the reason the use is unauthorized, and a statement that the information provided is accurate.

RyokanTravel will review sufficiently substantiated notices and may remove or disable access to the content while the claim is assessed. Removal does not necessarily mean that RyokanTravel accepts liability or confirms the alleged infringement.

Where content was supplied by a hotel, partner, API, affiliate network, or other third party, RyokanTravel may forward the claim to that source so the issue can be investigated, corrected, licensed, or disputed.

Liability

RyokanTravel makes reasonable efforts to publish useful and up-to-date information, but prices, availability, cancellation terms, local taxes, opening hours, facilities, child policies, onsen access, meals, works, closures, and ryokan rules may change without notice.

Users must verify decisive information directly with the ryokan, booking partner, or relevant provider before making any financial commitment.

RyokanTravel cannot be held liable for decisions made solely on the basis of a page, score, review summary, map, suggested itinerary, or estimate displayed on the website.

Maps, addresses, geolocation data, route order, travel times, seasonal advice, and nearby place information are planning aids. They may be incomplete, approximate, affected by third-party map data, or unsuitable for real-time navigation, emergency decisions, accessibility planning, or last-minute transport choices.

Travel Agency Scope

RyokanTravel may provide travel advice, itinerary preparation, comparison tools, and introductions to third-party providers. Unless a separate written agreement expressly states that RyokanTravel sells a package, linked travel arrangement, booking service, or paid agency service, the website itself should be understood as an information and planning service.

If a paid service, quote, mandate, package, or custom agency engagement is later offered, the specific contractual terms of that service will prevail over the general information on this website.

Reporting Issues

To report an error, unauthorized image, outdated information, rights infringement, personal data issue, or unlawful content, use the Contact and Suggestions page and include the relevant URL and supporting details.