Nishimiyasou — Hotel in Fujikawaguchiko

Check in strictly not before 3 pm check out 10 am. Between 10 am and 3 pm owners switch on an answering machine there is no way to phone the hotel during this time. In our case they started answering the phone at 3:20 pm. If you arrive early you need to store your luggage at the station.(luggage storage opposite station, 500 Yen per piece).||The hotel is too far to walk, a taxi will set you back some 1500 Yen.||I recommend you go to the tourist information center at the station – not before 3 pm. Very helpful English speaking ladies will try to call the hotel. Be patient. It might take a long time before they send a shuttle to pick you up. No food, no breakfast, no restaurant, no shops nearby ! I suggest you buy some food near the station before you go (there is a LAWSON supermarket nearby).||Location: If you want to make it to the hotel on your own: Take the green line bus from platform 1.||Get off at bus stop 54 “Fuji Omuro Sengen-jinja shrine”. Anyone knows this shrine. The shrine has a lake entrance, with an uphill path. To the left of the shrine entrance is a road going slightly uphill. On this corner you will see two signposts. A 1 x 3 meter lit sign with an arrow and a 1 x 1 meter blue sign with an arrow pointing to the hotel, all in Japanese ! From signpost just 60 meters to hotel.||||Large traditional room with lake view. Sleep confortable on mattress on tatami floor. The onsen is wonderful. Elderly owners speak very little English, written instructions in English available. Good WiFi.||Our visit was in November. High Season might be different.||||Don't miss walking over to the shrine complex. (walking uphill next door). Especially at sunset, with hundreds of black crows...

Check in strictly not before 3 pm check out 10 am. Between 10 am and 3 pm owners switch on an answering machine there is no way to phone the hotel during this time. In our case they started answering the phone at 3:20 pm. If you arrive early you need to store your luggage at the station.(luggage storage opposite station, 500 Yen per piece).||The hotel is too far to walk, a taxi will set you back some 1500 Yen.||I recommend you go to the tourist information center at the station – not before 3 pm. Very helpful English speaking ladies will try to call the hotel. Be patient. It might take a long time before they send a shuttle to pick you up. No food, no breakfast, no restaurant, no shops nearby ! I suggest you buy some food near the station before you go (there is a LAWSON supermarket nearby).||Location: If you want to make it to the hotel on your own: Take the green line bus from platform 1.||Get off at bus stop 54 “Fuji Omuro Sengen-jinja shrine”. Anyone knows this shrine. The shrine has a lake entrance, with an uphill path. To the left of the shrine entrance is a road going slightly uphill. On this corner you will see two signposts. A 1 x 3 meter lit sign with an arrow and a 1 x 1 meter blue sign with an arrow pointing to the hotel, all in Japanese ! From signpost just 60 meters to hotel.||||Large traditional room with lake view. Sleep confortable on mattress on tatami floor. The onsen is wonderful. Elderly owners speak very little English, written instructions in English available. Good WiFi.||Our visit was in November. High Season might be different.||||Don't miss walking over to the shrine complex. (walking uphill next door). Especially at sunset, with hundreds of black crows...

The room looked nice like a traditional Japanese room, with low tables, paper windows, and this Japanese straw carpet. And a bed with nice blanket on the floor. More like a mattress. The jacuzzi was nice. Location ok and price ok. No food served but I could order in through them. Service was not bad although they don't speak any English. But... And it's a BIG BUT. I came back from the Jacuzzi (it's not onsen) and say down in the room on the chair on the floor to eat dinner, when I dozed off and grill asleep since I was tied from the whole day, when I woke up FREEZING. I was shivering uncontrollably. It turns out that no matter how high I turned up the heading from the air condition, the floor was freezing cold and the cold was coming in I don't know from where. When you stand up, it was a bit better, but you can't sleep standing up. I had to sleep in my coat, with the warm hat on and my gloves. NOT A NICE EXPERIENCE. This place must be nice in the summer time, but STAY AWAY in the...