Reviews
Ramon Wildfeuer
The location is quite good when relying on public transport. You also do not expect the Hotel to have a beautiful public bath and Sauna. Breakfast selection was delicious. Room service can be booked via TV and more importantly you can also opt out if you don't need it. Overall a very good experience!
R. Zehmke
The hotel is fine. Decent rooms. But the onsen is a nightmare. Hordes of Chinese tourists talking at the top of their lungs, taking their towels into the water, and being general menaces to other guests. Never again. The worst is that a staff member came to check ph levels of the onsen and saw this grim anti-social behavior and didn't do anything. It got so loud in there I left. Completely opposite to what an onsen should be. The Chinese are back in full and it's ruining tourism.
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Nice room with good space. Good onsen and related facilities, snacks & beverage for post-onsen.
The ramen supper is well cooked too. Love this hotel, it is like a lite-version Ryokan.
Hotel guests are very civilized, cleaned after themselves and return food tray even though the super friendly staffs are working fast to get the returning food tray, to prevent the kind guests doing the cleaning.
The breakfast is really good. There are plenty of Iwate based food, and I appreciate the effort for creating local selection for us hotel guests. The reimen cold noodle is good, so is the sashimi mixture in the jar thing.
Ricky Chua
There are a few things that just blew our mind. First, the Onsen is very clean and high quality, but we did not expect to have free Hershey's ice-cream outside the Onsen. There's also a reading space filled with manga comics (all in Japanese) for you to read while you enjoy your ice cream. Second, free Soba noodles between 9.30pm to (i think) 11.30pm. We expected a small bowl of make-do noodles, but it turned out to be a proper bowl of flavourful Soba. Third, the breakfast selection is incredible! Lots of choices, including some local delights like the seafood in a bottle and Reimen (Morioka's specialty cold noodles). To top it all off, the price point per person per night worked out to be 80 dollars. Definitely not the cheapest, but a steal when I think of how high quality everything here is. I cannot recommend this enough.
Chris Halpin
One night stay in Morioka. A few issues encountered, however. As I now see others have mentioned, there's no tattoos allowed in the hot springs. Understood; that’s the practice for the most part in Japan. However, this information was only supplied after I had paid a “bathing tax”. Only 150 yen, but still quite annoying when I couldn’t then use it!
However, the bed was also quite uncomfortable and the room is very noisy! Constant loud vibration sound. It also felt like the room was rocking (I genuinely thought to check if there was a minor earthquake at one point) which was quite disconcerting.
For a similar price there’s many better hotels I stayed in around Japan on my trip.