This is a beautiful hotel. The hotel staff are excellent, the rooms are beautiful, the location is really gorgeous (on the beach), the food is delicious (dinner and breakfast). The stay started with fruit and drinks being brought to our room by a very friendly member of staff. The room was incredible; fabulous view over the beach and sunset, outside bath on the spacious balcony, bedroom, lounge, tatami room, bathroom and separate toilet. The coffee maker in the room had enough fresh coffee beans in it to last a week. Dinner was really delicious . There is a choice of dinner plans available and we chose a light dinner. I am so glad we did as it was really very large, filled with the most wonderful fresh fish. The hotel is relaxing and after the stay we felt really refreshed. There are a number of onsens in the hotel available which is great as each one is never very busy. During our stay there were a number of single travelers and I think that this hotel must be very good for single travelers as well as families, couples and groups. Highly...
Read moreShiomiso is marketed as Ooedo-Onsen Monogatari Premium Shiomiso .||It's a large modern building, right on the beach, and all rooms look out over the Sea of Japan. ||Although it has tatami rooms, and guests dress in yukatas, it has a western ambience, with meals self served in a large dining room from a huge buffet.||Special bonus - free beer, wine and whiskey sours every evening in the sunset view lounge, plus coffee and snacks.||Large ofuros, rotemburos and sauna.||Pre-book complimentary shuttles from Murakami station, plus local bus service from a stop next to the small tourist office 100m away up on the main road.||Staff very friendly, but minimal English spoken - definitely not on the gaijin tourist trail.||HOT hotspring foot bath just outside the main entrance.||SF: Hyvä...
Read moreI stayed at this hotel while attending to a business meeting and let me tell you, I was not expecting anything and left with a whole new experience under my belt.||The hotel has natural hot spring baths right on the 1st floor. The bathing area is old style Japanese decor and architecture. The rooms are great, however for business are very uncomfortable. Everything in your room is not higher than 50 cm which makes working in the room very unpleasant.||The food is ok, nothing out of this world but good.||I...
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