Hotel New Awaji Plaza Awajishima — Hotel in Minamiawaji

Located at the southern tip of Awai Island overlooking Naruto bridge, the hotel is built up on the hill with spectacular view. It is about 2.5 hours drive from Osaka and about 1.5 hours from Tokushima. Awaji Island is famous for producing beef and onion. Interestingly you will see one wind turbine on the way up to the hotel.||||It is a medium sized hotel, with spa and onsen facility, and an outdoor pool perfect for summer time. Reception staff speak a little enough English handling the check in process. The hotel offers more western style room than Japanese style room, so I picked a western style room with beds. Website said the room has 34 meter square and it was spacious.||||The onsen is nicely built and kept in good conditions. Outdoor onsen has a very good view of the Narutio bridge with sunset. There is a rest area outside of the onsen by the pool. But it was very windy the day I stayed, otherwise it would be a nice place to enjoy after onsen. ||||The hotel has only one restaurant but decoration is nice and has nice view. I dined at the restaurant counter. Food is served one by one instead of putting all on the table. Fugu fish is farmed in the area so fugu is a common dish in Awaji. Breakfast is buffet style and offered good selection and quality. Hotel provided 2 free drink coupons to be consumed at the lobby cafe. There is also a sunset bar overlooking the sea.||||I found the room cold as there is no temperature control in the room, I borrowed a heater from reception. With the reasonable price tag the hotel...

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Tailored more for the domestic tourist than the international so you’ll need some Japanese to get by. Friendly staff (big shout out to the super friendly Pool Guy!). Spacious room that had been renovated (other comments saying some have been but some haven’t) although already seemed somewhat dated. Spa and sauna area desperately in need of an upgrade. A bit smelly too. Dinner was good but again seemed to be from 1996. Probably won’t do a return visit unless they modernize the whole concept. Great potential for this property but all felt (and looked in some places) just a bit...