Auberge Kitano Dan Dan — Hotel in Abashiri

We loved this place. It is located 5-10 min. car ride from central Abashiri.||||Our room had a beautiful view onto Abashiri Lake. The twin bedded room (about 120cm wide each?) was not large but good enough for our one night stay. It was without bathroom but with a decent shower booth with functions (but we did not use it). Nothing luxurious but charming with local touch of decoration. ||||Open-air public bath with view as well as indoor bath. Both pleasant. Not so large.||||Dinner at the in-house restaurant was very & very good. Basically French with Japanese ideas. Refined and quite vegetalian with excellent seafood. Local Japanese sake was also good. Breakfast like-wise delicious. You can choose between Japanese and Western.||||The reception area is without air-con but our room as well as their restaurant were air-conditionned. ||||Warm welcome throughout our stay.||They may also well accommodate foreign visitors, as I see many have come from Korea.||||This place with local taste is what I hoped for my trip and I...

We stayed at the Auberge Kitano Dandan for three nights, and we could have spent our whole vacation there. We had the chance to be the only guests (end September). The room had a fantastic view on Lake Abashiri and was very convenient, clean and with two separate beds, and a shower. The auberge is full of antique furnitures, photos from another time and a lot of other old items so that it's almost a little museum. The employees were exceptionally friendly. As we had to take the train every morning very early and couldn't therefore have breakfast at the auberge, they especially prepared for us lunch boxes every day instead. The Japanese breakfast we finally could enjoy the last morning was just outstanding. We only can recommend this hotel and would...

We stayed at the Auberge Kitano Dandan for three nights, and we could have spent our whole vacation there. We had the chance to be the only guests (end September). The room had a fantastic view on Lake Abashiri and was very convenient, clean and with two separate beds, and a shower. The auberge is full of antique furnitures, photos from another time and a lot of other old items so that it's almost a little museum. The employees were exceptionally friendly. As we had to take the train every morning very early and couldn't therefore have breakfast at the auberge, they especially prepared for us lunch boxes every day instead. The Japanese breakfast we finally could enjoy the last morning was just outstanding. We only can recommend this hotel and would...