Bella Vista Spa & Marina Onomichi is a resort destination wedding venue in Onomichi, Japan, hosting up to 80 guests (Aisle estimate), where a wedding for 80 guests costs about JP¥4,150,000 (our estimate), reached from Hiroshima (HIJ), ~90 minutes by car.
Bella Vista Spa & Marina Onomichi
The Ribbon Chapel is the reason this hotel is on the list.
About Bella Vista Spa & Marina Onomichi
The Ribbon Chapel is the reason this hotel is on the list.
Finished in 2014 to a design by Hiroshi Nakamura, it is two spiral staircases wound around each other, each holding the other up, climbing 15.26 metres above the Seto Inland Sea.
A couple starts at the bottom on separate stairs, crosses paths on the way up and meets at the top, and the staircases themselves form the walls and roof of a cone of glass with wooden seating for 80 below.
The hotel under it is small, 44 rooms, first opened in 1973 for visitors to the shipyard next door and rebuilt as a resort in 2007, with a marina that is the base for Setouchi Seaplanes and the cruise ship Guntu.
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Capacity, rooms and facilities
Money
- A wedding for 80 guests
- About JP¥4,150,000, rooms extraAisle estimate
- Price
- JP¥2,000,000 to JP¥6,000,000 as a packageAisle estimate
Getting there
- Nearest airport
- HIJ, 90 min by carAisle estimate
Venue highlights
- Ribbon Chapel by Hiroshi Nakamura, completed 2014, 15.26 m tall
- Two interlocking staircases forming the chapel walls and roof
- Wooden seating for 80 under a cone of glass
- 44-room hotel with a marina on the Seto Inland Sea
A sample wedding weekend
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- 17:00Arrival by car or boat, drinks at the marina
- 11:00Morning on the water, islands and a seaplane loop
- 15:30Ceremony in the Ribbon Chapel, the two staircases up
- 16:30Photographs on the chapel ramp above the Inland Sea
- 18:30Dinner at the hotel, Setouchi fish and Hiroshima sake
- 10:00Cycling the Shimanami Kaido, or cars to Fukuyama
Costs and booking details
- Getting there
- HIJ · about 1 h 30 by carAisle estimate
Guests fly into Hiroshima.
Questions about the venue
How many guests fit in the Ribbon Chapel?+
Eighty. The chapel furniture, including the altar and the seating, is wooden and fixed at that number, so the ceremony caps your guest list here even though the hotel could seat more for dinner.
What makes the Ribbon Chapel unusual?+
The structure is the ceremony. Two spiral staircases wind around each other and each one supports the other, so the couple walk up separately, cross on the way and meet at the top, 15.26 metres above the Seto Inland Sea.
How do guests reach Onomichi?+
Hiroshima airport is roughly 90 minutes by car. The Shinkansen to Fukuyama and then a 30-minute drive is the usual route from Tokyo or Kyoto, and the hotel arranges transfers, because there is no useful public transport to the door.
Can guests stay at the hotel?+
Some of them. The hotel has 44 rooms, which is enough for the immediate party but not for 80 people, so a larger guest list spills into Onomichi town or Fukuyama, 30 minutes away.
What does a wedding here cost?+
The hotel does not publish wedding prices. Japanese resort weddings at this tier commonly land between 4,000,000 and 8,000,000 yen for a party of 60 once ceremony, banquet and attire are counted, and the hotel quotes on enquiry.
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Sources and booking notes
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