ホテルやなぎ — Hotel in Yuzawa

One minute from the central train station by a covered walkway, this budget hotel has surprisingly large rooms but quite a number of rules. You need to let them clean from 9am to 12 noon, leaving your key at the desk or they will just place new towels and amenities on your door assuming you don't want your room cleaned. Checkout is at 10am and breakfast from 6.30 -8.30am. |There are three floors with no lift so it's not suitable for those with large and heavy suitcases. However there's a small onsen enough for two people at a time but only one wash station. It's open 24 hours and you take a towel from your room.|The breakfast is adequate with rice and accompaniments, salad and coffee but no fruit. The seating arrangement is ryokan-style and it's best to wear slippers down to take them off easily.|There is air-conditioning but heating starts maybe late October. |All in all, this is quite a traditional ryokan-though there are beds with futons. The daily newspaper is delivered to the room each morning, the staff are polite and welcoming though no English is spoken. |It's easy to walk to the Ropeway station from here and there are a number of restaurants along the way as well as at...

One minute from the central train station by a covered walkway, this budget hotel has surprisingly large rooms but quite a number of rules. You need to let them clean from 9am to 12 noon, leaving your key at the desk or they will just place new towels and amenities on your door assuming you don't want your room cleaned. Checkout is at 10am and breakfast from 6.30 -8.30am. |There are three floors with no lift so it's not suitable for those with large and heavy suitcases. However there's a small onsen enough for two people at a time but only one wash station. It's open 24 hours and you take a towel from your room.|The breakfast is adequate with rice and accompaniments, salad and coffee but no fruit. The seating arrangement is ryokan-style and it's best to wear slippers down to take them off easily.|There is air-conditioning but heating starts maybe late October. |All in all, this is quite a traditional ryokan-though there are beds with futons. The daily newspaper is delivered to the room each morning, the staff are polite and welcoming though no English is spoken. |It's easy to walk to the Ropeway station from here and there are a number of restaurants along the way as well as at...

The hotel is quite old. The room is filled with cigarettes smell. The furniture is old too. |But all these pale against the superb location and the slightly spacious room, esp when you consider that you have to drag 3 heavy luggage along the thick snow floor from the station and out and realized that is is really less than 5 min from the station!!! |And since you do not stay in the room but out at the ski resort. It...