What People are saying
Beautiful Onsen Hotel Right on the Lake
VagabondChimpon 13/04/2017 01:09Stayed here for one night in a Japanese style room with my family. It's a very beautiful hotel, with a Zen rock garden, Ashiyu (foot onsen) and a nice full onsen. The staff were very helpful and attentive and they even had a yukata for my 2 year old son when we asked. The onsen is very relaxing and open almost 24 hrs to hotel guests. Around 00:30 the male and female sides change and so it is possible to try both sides of the onsen (I prefer the one on the left as pictured above). I went to the onsen 3 times while I was there. We opted not to do a dinner at the hotel, since they were asking 6,000 yen per person and that seemed a bit expensive for us. We did do breakfast and it was quite nice. I would definitely stay here again, but there were quite a few other hotels around that looked tempting too.
Authentic Japanese style ryokan
beluvboon 21/02/2017 17:41Just came back from a four-nights stay. The food is always prepared with finess and delicacy. Everyone in the hotel is so friendly, especially Melody who is the room attendant for dinner. Location is unbeatable with th beautiful view of Suwa lake. Onsen is also set in an appropriate environment. The in-room onsen is a good try if available. Would recommend to others who visit Suwa lake.
Stay at a traditional Japanese Hotel
Nicole Pon 02/06/2016 09:40We stayed at his ryokan as part of a tour with other Canadians. It was a good ryokan experience. Hotel is located across Lake Suwa nice area for walking.
The hotel isn't the newest or fanciest but it is still very clean and beautiful. The traditional set Japanese dinner and breakfast was a great experience and the service always professional and polite. Free Wifi is best in the lobby. The room looked quite tired and the bathrooms were really showing their age (not great). A peacock screeching did not make for a quiet stay.
Hotel has separate men and women Onsens hot spring bath house - not used by many of our group. Note that bathing suits are not allowed (not for the shy) There are also foot baths outside.
A Japanese room provides a very different experience. Sleeping on a mat on the floor takes some getting use to, we did not find it very comfortable as well as the chairs with no legs. If you have knee or back problems it may not be the best choice. We only stayed one night.
It was a treat to stay in a traditional Japanese hotel
Ronnie Bon 01/05/2016 10:21We arrived very tired and we got to our rooms in a very narrow and slow elevator to the 3rd floor. Our room was laid out in the traditional Japanese style. Slippers, minimal bedroom, a lovely living room leading on to the bed room. In the closets along the walls there were bedding and kimonos which we adorned for our group's traditional evening meal which was a great treat for all of us (photos attached.). On our return from the evening meal, we found our bedding was removed from the closets and laid out on the floor. Although nearly at floor level, but we were quite comfortable.Breakfast was traditional Japanese cuisine excellent. On the whole a great hotel although I was disappointed by the run down shower, and its appliances, rusty and in a bad shape. I hope management take this into consideration. This was certainly off standard. Staff so very friendly. WiFi free but weak.
Wonderful lake view and delicious beef shabu-shabu dinner
edmundduckon 30/03/2016 15:27This Ryokan locates besides the Suwa lake and quite close to the Kamisuwa station. There are convenient stores and a few restaurants nearby. In general, locations of onsen-ryokan are quite remote, so this Ryokan is definitely an exceptional one.
My friend and I stayed one of the rooms inside "秀芦閣" building. It had a marvelous lake view with sunset. The dinner was "Shinshu beef" (信州牛) shabu-shabu, that was so delicious and juicy! Besides the dinner, the breakfast was also very tasty. The service was great and staff was friendly. I did really enjoy my stay there.