Hotel Danrokan — Hotel in Kofu

This was business trip, booked by the company's travel department. The room was Y11,500 / night. This includes a healthy service charge, taxes, and a hot springs tax. There is a small phone access fee when you use your calling card, and a Y1,050 charge to rent a modem for your laptop. Laundry service is expensive, but your clothes come back looking brand new, and packaged.||||The Danrokan is a 5-10 walk from Kofu Station, just a block or two from Kofu Castle, and close to the main shopping area (including a cool toy store). There are several places to eat within short walking distance, including Akiyoshi Yakitoriya right next door; as well as AM/PM and a Manga shop just a block away.||||Danrokan is THE place for weddings in the area, so you may see some nuptial activity on the week-end. You pay tax for the hot springs; but 1) it is way too hot, it feels like you are being boiled alive, and 2) your are essential taking a bath with a bunch of other naked dudes.||||The staff, like most hotels in Japan is embarrassingly polite. Some staff speak some English, at least enough to get you whatever you need. The elevators are comically small, so hopefully you don't have much luggage, and expect to make two trips if there are more than 3 in your party.||||American breakfast is the same eggs, tiny sausages, and roll every morning. I prefer the Japanese breakfast which has salad, rice, miso, and an alternating selection of fish (salmon and, I think, tuna).||||The rooms are the second biggest in town, after the Fujiya. They include 2 VERY HARD beds (it feels a little like sleeping directly on a box spring). A desk, a TV (sorry, no English broadcasts), a mini fridge, and one of those super-high-tech toilets in the bathroom. ||||The problem with my room was that it smelled very strongly of cigarette smoke; and I mean REALLY strong -- bad enough to wreak havoc on my sinuses. I would open my window before I left each day to try to get it to air out, but every night I would come back to find the window closed tight and the heat turned on full blast.||||I give the hotel 3 stars for the Japanese style breakfast, the big room, and the great staff. But it's really only 2 and a half due to painful beds and the bar-room smoky air that made me feel sick most of...

Japanese business partner company booked me and a Japanese engineer into the Danrokan twice in the 1980s. Spent half a 3 week trip and all a 2 week trip there. American breakfast was ok but Japanese Breakfast, in those days, had dried Salmon at least once every 3 days. Dried fish, vegies, rice, and a raw egg to crack into the rice. No matter which you ordered, you could get coffee. Silver pot, white-gloved server. Worked for me! I always gave the other engineer my egg. Heat and Air-conditioning both worked fine. ||All the wood in the room, including the doors, was the same, including the box the HVAC was in, table, moldings, desk and night stand. Very comfy, homey. It'll be a sad day when they "update" all that wood. ||I used my romanji dictionary and "Japanese for Busy People" grammar book to laboriously construct one-sentence questions but just looked confused when the response was a sentence. Counter person always went to get someone who spoke English. Not like Tokyo. But clean, and we worked too hard to even contemplate...

I had heard this hotel was most recommendable but I cannot say that. |Don't expect any perfect services there. I told the front desk that I wanted some stamps. The hotel man replied I could buy them at the nearest convenience store. mmm.. He would have gotten them!|In my room, the electric codes were not concealed. Those were messy.|I like dark light in the room, but it was too dark to do business. |When checking out, they charged a fee for my hotspring use. I felt bad in spite of the small amount of money.|On the contrary, the basic condition is good there. For example, bedroom and bathroom cleaning, preparing the tooth brush, and so on.|I recommend it to people who don't need extra services and simply want to enjoy the hotspring.|Showing the photo, a round type electric plug is available but there...