Hotel berhampiran Kitakatashi Gotenba Park di Kitakata

朝食がとても美味しかったです。喜多方に来る際は毎回泊まってます。

Even though there are no private bath nor toilets, you can use common ones as there are only 5 rooms in the ryokan. 81 years old land lady are very gentle always smiling. You can walk to Kitakata station, historic warehouses and famous Bannai Ramen shop. Also in Spring you can enjoy walking under Sakura Trees nearby.

Living in Japan as a vegetarian for many years I am used to having to tough it out at hotels. Although there are exceptions, the majority of these facilities in Japan are still in the dark ages when it comes to vegetarian food options and unfortunately this hotel is no exception. This was our second time to stay here and we had hoped in vain that the food selection would be better. Shame on us, yes, but shame on the hotel even more, in my opinion. First, the positives. It is in a great location: you step out of the hotel and you are practically launched on the Goshiknuma trail. If you have a car it is easy to drive to nearby starting points for various excellent hiking options. If you don't have a car you are very limited in how many hiking spots you can access. The staff is friendly and helpful. The previous time we stayed, during the pandemic, there was a near-fluent in English tri-lingual front desk staff member who was great. We don't really need that, however, so I cannot say that this time we encountered any English speaking staff. The room was clean and comfortable. On our previous stay we had a gigantic room for less than what we paid this time but that was during the pandemic when hotels were practically begging for business and we were also able to avail ourselves of the government subsidy program for travel, which has long been discontinued. Anyway, we were happy enough with the room. The onsen is good: spacious and properly maintained. This facility is actually two joined hotels and if you stay on this side (pricier and with nicer rooms) the onsen is less crowded and nicer. The food was another story. Both the first time we stayed and this time, we opted for the buffet meal package: breakfast and dinner. Breakfast is passable if you are lacto-ovo as I am and not super strict, meaning you can drink miso soup that will doubtlessly have at least some fish stock as part of it. Dinner is, frankly, pathetic. There is nothing of substance for vegetarians unless you consider a salad, rice, pickles, and a couple of fried vegetables to be a meal. I do not. Virtually every dish had some meat or fish in it. Why does the pasta have to have bacon? Why does the stir fry vegetables have to have chicken? This hotel is far from the only one that does this, but in 2023 is it not possible to have one or two entree type offerings entirely meat or fish free? The buffet is gigantic and has huge variety but all of that variety is thoroughly saturated with meat and fish. Total fail. We will not stay here again, regretfully. Note: the buffet was equally poor during our first stay and it was entirely on us that we hoped there would be some improvement a few years later. Like I said, shame on us. That does not excuse the hotel from not providing better food options for vegetarians.

We stayed for 2 nights with breakfast. Booked and paid via hotels.com. The hotel is not new but clean and good to stay and it didn't cost much compared with other hotels in this area. The breakfast was a buffet and had many choices. We enjoyed our stay a lot. Sorry for my late review. They might renovate the restaurant so my photo might be outdated.

食事会場での夕食はうるさくて嫌いなので、朝食のみで予約したが、館内のレストランが「炉端焼き居酒屋」しか選択できなかった。 他に良さそうなレストランは有ったが、休業しているか、予約のみ（事前の予約の方法がわからない）だったのが残念。 「炉端焼き居酒屋」に入ってカウンター席に座ったが、雰囲気や料理は文句無し、会津地酒飲み比べセットが良かった。

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。

With a stay at EN RESORT Grandeco Hotel in Kitashiobara, you'll be in a national park, within a 15-minute drive of Ura-bandai and Gran Deco Snow Resort. This ski hotel is 15.2 mi (24.4 km) from Inawashiro Lake and 2.5 mi (4 km) from Goshikinuma Lake.Enjoy the convenience of ski-in/ski-out access at this hotel, which also features hot springs and an indoor pool. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless internet access, ski storage, and shopping on site.Enjoy a meal at the restaurant or snacks in the hotel's coffee shop/cafe. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. Buffet breakfasts are available daily from 7:00 AM to 9:30 AM for a fee.Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, laundry facilities, and microwave in a common area. Free self parking is available onsite.Make yourself at home in one of the 103 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Conveniences include safes and washers/dryers, and housekeeping is provided daily.

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.

nice staff, wifi connection is good. got 2 floors of hot spring, they have sister hotel with another 2 near by, so you can use their hot spring too. the location to the city is around 8 mins drive. it's convient. the breakfast is good , each dish they tell you the ingredients, but just a little sad that If they can also write the English on top. overall, this was a great stay .

有車站接駁，一出火車站就能明確找到接駁巴士，非常方便，到了飯店後服務人員裡立馬上前接待，很周到，提出的相關需求也盡力協助處理，房內空間寬敞舒適，乾淨整潔，如果沒安排其他戶外行程，在飯店裡設施應有盡有也適合閒逛一整天喔！