KYUKAMURA IWATE-AMIHARIONSEN — Hotel in Shizukuishi

Kyukamura Iwate-Amiharionsen is a Japanese style resort which I stayed at as part of a ski tour. Japanese style bedrooms were available with futons but I chose a western style bedroom. The room was comfortable, had a toilet, was clean and warm but had no shower or bath as this part of the hotel apparently has an Onsen which doubles as the communal bathing facility. While I quite enjoyed this aspect of my stay and it complemented my daily activities in that I enjoyed the hot soak, it was a little annoying as I also like a quick shower in the morning. Still, it was only for a few days. Breakfast and dinner was buffet style and surprisingly extensive, with many "japanese" options as well as more recognisably western options. All in all I thought the meals offered were as enjoyable as any I've had at any hotel, and certainly filling and tasty.||||Wifi was good but it became clear to me after failing to connect to the internet with either my phone or my laptop, that the hotel's router needed to be rebooted. For entertainment try to explain to non-english speaking Japanese reception staff that their wifi router needs to be re-set. In the end it happened and the wifi worked properly. I realised that the Google translation app would have been perfect for this situation with me typing my comments and being translated onto the screen. the only problem would have been that it needed internet access for the actual translation by Google servers. Either that or switch on international data roaming....||||All in all this hotel was c and I would happily stay again. I understand that in summer this is a very pretty part of Japan so if you are contemplating a visit to this region this hotel would be...

If it's the great Japanese outdoors this is a good hotel. Stayed in a number of the Kyukamura Park Hotels. They tend to cater for nature lovers, excel on the food and the baths for those that enjoy that part.||||We drove directly to here after flying into Sendai since we were doing a anti clockwise loop of the top area. The staff are most attentive. Knowing I don't use chop sticks they kindly had a knife and fork out for me at breakfast and dinner. ||||The sake they serve using the over flow method and giggle. It's the first time I had come across this method of serving sake. The bit that over flows into the box you pour back into the glass, but due to viscosity if you don't drink a lot you can't get the glass back into the box if you don't tip the contents of the box back in. You will know what I'm on about it when you come across it. The box is called a masu. Sosogi-koboshi pouring method. It's suppose to indicate that the house is generous.||||Meals are very good, buffet breakfast and dinner. If you stay for a number of days you get little treats as well served at the table in addition to the buffet. ||||Wifi in this Kyukamura is to the room as well, so you don't have to sit outside in reception for surfing, emails and phoning back home. Guests are very friendly as they generally are in Kyukamura hotels.||||There are western rooms but generally to get one of these you have to contact the central booking office as booking companies cater for the Japanese futon market and do not show these rooms that are generally limited in number...

Kyukamura Iwate Amihari Onsen Hotel & Ski resort|- Despite being a dated site, the hotel was very well maintained and is extremely clean and bright. An example is, the hotel rooms are still opened with keys, but with a tag with QR code for check-in and check-out with digital recording. And while we thought the ski resort still used the old style hard copy lift ticket, the resort had proved we are wrong and they have already changed to IC card. |- The rooms are quite spacious. |- There are 5 onsens including one foot soak. 2 are inside the hotel, another 2 are away from the hotel but within walking distance and shuttle bus available (we have not gone to those two as we went skiing)|- Buffet style breakfast and dinner, both were phenomenal. Quite a wide variety of food and all of very high quality. |- 5mins walking distance from the ski resort.|- Great hospitality provided. They even drove us to a nearby ski resort for skiing/snow boarding. |- Only a few pistes in the ski resort, lifts are slow. But as mainly visited by locals, there was no crowd. Some foreigners come for snow shoeing and back/side country skiing|- We concurred with a foreign website which made this place known to us that this is a nice...