Kuroshio Honjin — Local services in Nakatosa

This hotel is a perfect place if you like to avoid from hustle and bustle. Quietly and solitarily located at Kochi Prefecture, found at a peak facing Pacific-ocean panoramically!||||Traditional Japanese architecture, the interior design and decoration bring you back to old time Japan. The furniture, the teapot set, the clock, the tea table and the closet and so many other details you get in your room and the hotel concourse are pieces of arts.||||As this hotel is being so attentive to every detail, the food quality speaks for itself too!||||Our room is 305 which is very good one which you can enjoy the panoramic view of Pacific Ocean at the balcony. Sea breeze and the sound of mother natural makes you calm and forget temporarily "work"! ||||Very spacious and you won't have any problems with doing your odds and ends. This hotel offers hot spring indoor/outdoor in a separate floor, but the bath tub in my room can be easily become a private hot spring, again Pacific Ocean view!||||Staff is very professional, exquisite , polite and very helpful in all aspects. My wife and I did not speak Japanese, no problem at all as several staff can manage English communication. ||||Every staff there as far as we see are willing to help their guests for any enquires. This hotel offers pick up service at nearby JR station, a courtesy van is available to drive their guests to the nearby downtown, to see few sight seeing.||||Lastly we would like to take this opportunity to give our credit and gratitude to Ms. Komatsu and the driver who picked us up at the train station. Komatsu took great care of our visit all the way through from email enquiry at the very beginning to the reception at the hotel, they make us fall in love with Koch and this hotel ||||Highly recommend this hotel for any travelers who love traditional beauty and culture of Japan, the people of Japan just so wonderful...

We stayed one night in this fantastically located onsen-ryokan. Location is high on a cliff overlooking a bay towards the Pacific Ocean. We had the fantastic view both from our room (in the main building) and from the indoor as well as the outdoor onsen. Beautiful!!||The indoor onsen is warm freshwater and the outside is warm saltwater and a small pond with cold freshwater. There is also a sauna. Excellent experience which I totally recommend. ||Our room was very nice with enough space for 4 including luggage. We also had our own mini-onsen overlooking the Pacific!||However, there is room for improvement:|- Staff seemed to try to keep us away from their neighbors, the small restaurant serving excellent tataki. Not a sympathetic trait...|- We were provided one (n=1) medium sized towel each for the whole stay. That is not a lot, if you bathe all the time and for example have long hair.|- In the room, we had one small towel in the bathroom for us all to dry our hands. It got soaked very quickly. |- There was no complimentary water provided, neither in the room nor in the onsen. Especially in the onsen there ought to be a possibility to drink water, as you lose a lot of liquid due to the heat. |- There were 3 massage chairs, but you had to pay to use them!!! So they were left unused. I find this quite tight-fisted. Either you provide this service to costumers or you don’t. You should not charge a few yen for a massage chair?|- At places in the onsen the wood was quite damaged, which gives a slovenly impression. Suggest to renovate this. ||The food was good, I have provided review elsewhere. ||In conclusion, we totally loved this place, which we can highly recommend. It’s a world...

We had a wooden house with traditional tatami rooms and a private balcony overlooking the sea. As usual in Japan they provide Yukata for the dinner and the visit to the onsen. The Sunrise view from the room was wonderful. Quiet location, tremendous dining experience. The dinner was a seven course meal and was delicious. You have naturally to love fish.||||The front desk staff were very welcoming to us as foreign tourists, though they spoke no English. ||||The outdoor onsen with heated sea water was an experience and the view from the onsen is gorgeous. ||||Hotel is located high on a cliff looking out to sea and a couple of kilometres by road to a very picturesque fishing boat harbour. There is a short cut track through the bush. Th e cut is an official tsunami escape stair and is...