Sakurajima Seaside Hotel — Hotel in Kagoshima

This hotel is quite dilapidated but have several redeeming quality that ultimately made me give a moderate rating. Firstly, it has one of the cheapest half-board dinner of all of Japan for which the dinner can be arranged to your room. The food quality, on the other hand, both dinner and breakfast was not bad but not entirely delicious. Room is enormously huge, but lacks luxuriousness as it is in need for an upgrading. ||||The hotspring is literally the star of the hotel. I see that many people specially go there JUST FOR THE HOTSPRING, and they leave before nighttime. I was there on a weekday and we were the ONLY GUEST in the whole hotel. It is pretty scary at night, in a secluded island with no other humans around. Service was good, people are nice friendly and endearing. But come on, its Japan! You get good hospitality as guests everywhere!||||Run down building in a need of a facelift. Makes me wonder about safety issues especially when its dangerously located right beside an active volcano. not worth risking to stay there overnight.||||The surrounding establishments are really rundown and abandon. Famous hotel chain, Furusato Hotspring hotel is just a stone's throw away. It's a abandon hotel that gives off extremely eerie vibes. We have a balcony, but what stands beside out balcony is the abandon building of another hotel, giving me the creeps at night especially when we were the only guest for the night. Will not be revisiting them in the future, maybe just the bath.||||TRAVEL TIPS:||1) Do not stay more than 1 day as you really have nothing much to do around there. I advise 1.5day would be sufficient.||||2) They do not have a door lock latch like most western hotel. As we were the only guest in the whole hotel we felt unsafe. We pushed a table to the sliding door as a precaution.||||3) Go during the weekends when its more crowded, you feel more secure.||||4) book the halfboard dinner, it may not be the most fantastic dinner but its nice to be dinning in a tatami room with your partner.||||5) DOnt get the corner rooms||||6) Rent a car, or take a bus. Bus schedule are...

This hotel is quite dilapidated but have several redeeming quality that ultimately made me give a moderate rating. Firstly, it has one of the cheapest half-board dinner of all of Japan for which the dinner can be arranged to your room. The food quality, on the other hand, both dinner and breakfast was not bad but not entirely delicious. Room is enormously huge, but lacks luxuriousness as it is in need for an upgrading. ||||The hotspring is literally the star of the hotel. I see that many people specially go there JUST FOR THE HOTSPRING, and they leave before nighttime. I was there on a weekday and we were the ONLY GUEST in the whole hotel. It is pretty scary at night, in a secluded island with no other humans around. Service was good, people are nice friendly and endearing. But come on, its Japan! You get good hospitality as guests everywhere!||||Run down building in a need of a facelift. Makes me wonder about safety issues especially when its dangerously located right beside an active volcano. not worth risking to stay there overnight.||||The surrounding establishments are really rundown and abandon. Famous hotel chain, Furusato Hotspring hotel is just a stone's throw away. It's a abandon hotel that gives off extremely eerie vibes. We have a balcony, but what stands beside out balcony is the abandon building of another hotel, giving me the creeps at night especially when we were the only guest for the night. Will not be revisiting them in the future, maybe just the bath.||||TRAVEL TIPS:||1) Do not stay more than 1 day as you really have nothing much to do around there. I advise 1.5day would be sufficient.||||2) They do not have a door lock latch like most western hotel. As we were the only guest in the whole hotel we felt unsafe. We pushed a table to the sliding door as a precaution.||||3) Go during the weekends when its more crowded, you feel more secure.||||4) book the halfboard dinner, it may not be the most fantastic dinner but its nice to be dinning in a tatami room with your partner.||||5) DOnt get the corner rooms||||6) Rent a car, or take a bus. Bus schedule are...

A nice ryokan that you can actually visit without a car! The bus schedule is not on Google Maps. I used the Japanese site qbus.jp to input 桜島港 to 文学碑前 which is the stop in front of the hotel. I attached the timetable where the bus departs from Sakurajima port (as of December 2023).

This bus is not the sightseeing bus so the operators might not speak English. If you don’t have an IC card you need to pay cash and take a numbered ticket when you enter from the back. The screen at the front of the bus indicates how much your fare is based on how far you ride (it increases as the stops go on). You’ll signal you’d like to get off and then deposit the numbered ticket and coins in the front. No bills are accepted and there is a bill exchanger usually but the max it accepts is ¥1000.

The hotel is very charming! Our luggage arrived before we did and they held it until we arrived. The man at the front desk speaks a little bit of English. There’s a separate men/women onsen and then the mixed one outside. They prepared breakfast and dinner for us. Green tea was provided each day and new futon bedding as well.

They could only offer cash on arrival delivery for our suitcases. We were very lucky that our next hotel accepted it for us! Be careful about that.

The buses are very infrequent and are mostly in the mornings and afternoons. If you miss the last early one at 10am or so, you’ll be stuck in that area. The ferry is 24 hours between Kagoshima and Sakurajima though. There’s one taxi I...