GEIBOSO — Hotel in Shima

Funny story. We pulled up to this place super excited to enjoy the beach the following day. We planned the trip months in advance. When we woke up the next day all the beaches were closed due to the recent and serious tsunami warning. We spent the day enjoying the very quiet little townsite and mostly lounging at the pool, which though humble, has a gorgeous view of the bay. The view from the room was also excellent. Anyway, after realizing that the tsunami warning probably wouldn't be lifted for the duration of our planned stay, the hotel owner was kind enough to let us check out early. Disappointing as the trip was, given that my notoriously terrible luck triggered a global tsunami event, the kindness of the hotel staff and the general low key vibe of the town made it an otherwise memorable experience. If you want a five star experience, and the associated pricetag, then stay in Tokyo. Don't come here and whine that it wasn't up to your "high class" expectations. Otherwise, if you're a normal human being looking for a beautiful beachside experience, I wouldn't hesitate to...

The hotel management operate a shuttle service that picks you up from the station Kashikojima on the Kintetsu line at certain times.The drive to the hotel takes about twenty minutes.||||The hotel building itself looks a bit weathered from the outside but the rooms and public areas are well-maintained. Its location right at the seaside makes for a good view from your room, which is a spacious tatami room with a seating area and a small balcony. There is no private bath, because you can use the o-furo, but a sink with cold and hot water is in the room.||The public bath is beautifully made of wood and the mens' bath on the fifth floor on the top of the building also has an open-air bath from which you can watch the Pacific and the stars.||The food is tasty and artistically arranged. Dinner consists of lots of different courses. Breakfast is also a treat and throughout typical Japanese. The only concession to western tastes was the coffee jelly as part of...

In our Japan journey, we thought about a relaxing stop of two nights in the Area of Shima. We faced on out way great beautiful nature, as soon as we arrived at the sea-side hotel we were shocked. In whole Area there was no possibility to swim on the dirty Beaches, all "resorts" are build higher than the beach, mostly without ability to enter the sea. The rooms were very traditional Japanese, one Bathroom for us 5, in general it was good to try the traditional way of Japanese way of living, but the hotel was way to expensive and didn't offer the guests any interesting thing. An old tiny Swimming-pool and nothing else. They picked us up with a shuttle from the train station. We couldn't even order dinner in the hotel, we didn't understand why, cause no one spoke even a little bit english. |The whole area is only made for Japanese tourists and...