Hotel berhampiran Mingei Taketou, Aizuwakamatsu

12月の土曜日に一泊しました。只見線の始発に乗るためにとった宿ですが、汽車は動かず結局会津の敢行のために泊まったホテルです。駅前にあるのが最大の選択のポイントでした。 駅前でとても便利です。近くには駅ナカのコンビニやスーパーがあります。ホテルの中にも飲食店はあります。フロントデスクの対応は高いレベルでとても親切です。ホテルはくたびれた印象ですが、清潔さは保たれています。駅前ですが、車の音がうるさいわけでもないし、騒音は皆無です。窓から駅がみえるので旅情がかき立てられるでしょう。 近くの入浴施設の利用券が付いているプランでした。ホテルの狭いお風呂よりは利用価値が高いですが、雨が降った寒い日だと行き帰りで湯冷めするでしょう。 全体的には普通のビジネスホテルです。お値打ちプランがあったら次回も泊まりたいホテルです。

I stayed overnight in a very compact but also very practical room with everything I needed. The space was well-designed with a good-sized desk which had three powerpoints above it (yay! doesn't happen everywhere), so easy to plug in tablet and accessories, and also charge phone and camera battery. Small fridge and tv, humidifier, electric jug, nighshirt and complimentary slilppers. Lovely ceramic tea mugs. I did find the waste bins a little small (no recycling but that's often the case in Japanese hotels). Wi fi worked well, and there was a radio. The comfortable bed had a nice flat pillow and lighting console conveniently placed. The bathroom was small but there was a good deep bath. Interesting city and mountain views from the room. The hotel lobby was attractively decorated. The location was conveniently close to the JR Station as well as eateries and some shops. Good value, and would stay again.

The location is far from Nikko, located on the mountain. The lobby has been updated but the rooms were kinda out dated. Dinner and breakfast were very unique experience. The quality is ok as similar to other onsen style hotel. We still enjoyed it. The late night noodles snack was great.

Great hotel located next to Aizuwakamatsu Station. It’s a great location for being a base to visit all the attractions and great restaurants around the area. It’s a standard Toyoko Inn Japanese business hotel with basic amenities. Room wise it was definitely above average but it’s a bit on the old side. The bed and pillow was comfortable. Great water pressure too. The room came with breakfast so we managed to have a go just before they close up (pretty early at 9am). The food was basic but tasted really good. They also provide a common washer and dryer which was very useful for us travellers. Would definitely consider it as it’s a good budget, centrally located and comfortable.

What a wonderful family oriented hotel. Good for couples, families & extended families. Staff wonderful and atmosphere relaxed. We would recommend a visit to this town of samurai and sake. Easy to get around and different to the big cities. A great place for a few days. The hotel has large hot spa areas and we enjoyed every minute.

We visited Aizuwakamatsu at the national holiday weekend so there were limited options to us in this famous onsen town, Hagishiyama. We wanted a more modern hotel, and while the shots of the room look good on their website, the reality is that it is much smaller than I had expected. Though the room looked new, the bathroom was a disappointment, small and shabby. With two large beds in the room, that leaves little space for moving around. And they try hard to squeeze all essential items of an onsen hotel room into the smallest space possible, including placing the vanity unit in the living room opposite the sleeping platform, sharing space with a kettle and drinking water glasses. There is a shoe stand and a folding screen in-between the toilet and bathroom, which is hugely strange and inconvenient. Ours is a 12-tatami room, which I expect would be good for 3 people, but the reality is that it is so cramped that one would not want to spend much time in the room. Perhaps that’s the reason why the hotel provided a lot of public sitting areas. Yes, for guests to admire the magnificent view of the mountain stream, but also to stay out of the uncomfortable room. The room was a huge disappointment but there are some nice sides of the hotel. Dinner was really good; we had window seats facing the waterfall and the Aizu beef was very delicious. The public onsets, especially the outdoor ones, are nice, situated just next to the mountain stream. All in all, for the US680 I paid for three, it was not good value for money.

ホテルは東山温泉のどん詰まりに近い場所に（道路も狭いので注意）。駐車場もホテル入口から１００Mくらい離れた場所に。 夕食は川床をチョイス。場所は駐車場よりももう少し行った場所。 テーブルが並んでいるが写真で見るような川べりの席は限られている様で、見ていると 選んだコースにより場所が決まっている感じ。当日はほぼ満席であったが空いている時はどうなのかは不明。 我が家は夫婦そろって大食漢なので少なく感じたが、同年代【６０歳代】は十分な量か？ で料理はといえば、すでに作り置きの料理が置かれており、メインの食材は後から運ばれたが全体的に量はどうなの？ 川から離れていた席ということもあり、全体で評価すると納得する場所・料理ではなかった。 川床は勧めない。 【風呂】 男風呂の露天風呂は川のそばにあり、滝も目の前に。妻に聞くと女風呂は滝がちょっと遠くに見えたとのこと。 もうちょっと時期ずらし紅葉の時期が良かったのかな？

スタッフさんがとても優しくて良かった。 赤ちゃんの離乳食も置いてあって私は持って行ってましたが忘れちゃった方にはありがたいサービスだと思います。 山奥なのでWi-Fiがフロントあたりしか入らないですが、スマホとかは使えるので気にしなければ問題ないと思います。 子供が回線繋いでゲームできなくてちょっと残念そうでしたが、なければないで娯楽も沢山あるのでちゃんと満喫できてました。 ママは売店に地酒がなくてちょっと残念でした（苦笑）バイキングの時に飲めたり、一階のお食事処に行けば飲めましたが、お部屋でゆっくり飲みたかったのでちょっと残念。 きっと皆んな宿屋に行く前に買うのでしょうが忘れちゃったのと、売店にお土産と一緒にあるかなぁーと期待してただけにちょっと悲しかったです。 でも全体的にはとてもいいお宿です。

Stayed two nights in the traditional tatami room. Nightly kaiseki (set menu) with wonderful variety of local dishes. The hotels two main features include the beautiful hotel lobby with the water flowing through and the nightly Shamisen performance. The second is their Onsen with those brave enough in winter to venture to both the outdoor Onsen, it’s well worth frozen toes

Keikokubinado sits high above a bend of the Aga River in it's beautiful forested valley. Friendly staff offer the yukata/tatami/onsen experience in traditional rooms in a somewhat confusing complex layout of two separate buildings. If you do not have a meal plan, there is an excellent izikaya bar just 100m away that opens at 18h30, and very good self-serve coffee is available in the lobbies until 10h00. Complimentary shuttle van service from AshinomakiOnsen ” Cat StationMaster” station on the AizuTadami line. I enjoyed it so much I'm rebooking for next year.