Hotel berhampiran Akan Lake, Kushiro

We chose a lake view room for a night while driving around north east Hokkaido. The lobby gets crowded during checkin with many local visitors. The room and bathroom are small but acceptable since we have stayed in similar Japanese size rooms before. The breakfast n dinner buffet are acceptable. Guests are given a timing to choose their meal times. This helps with crowd control. The hotel charges for overnight parking and upon checkout, guests have to take a shuttle to about 1.5km away to retrieve their car. In the evening 8pm, we saw fireworks from our room. Excellent.

東北海道の周遊ツアーで宿泊しました。湖畔の遊覧船乗り場の脇に建つ古いホテルです。温泉街の一番良い立地で、アイヌコタンに行くのも時間がかかりません。ロビーからも阿寒湖が見渡せるので、部屋からの眺望も期待出来ます。部屋はレイクビューの和室で、少しくたびれた感じもありますが、格安ツアーでの利用なので特に気になりませんでした。食事は宴会場でいただきましたが、大きな毛ガニが1杯置かれてありびっくりしました。それ以外の料理も美味しかったです。朝食はビュッフェすつぃるでしたが、こちらはいたって普通でした。ちょうど冬華美のタイミングだったので湖上から打ち上げられる花火を見ることが出来ました。アイヌコタンのシアターイコロも近かったです。

stayed one night for visiting lake akan and nearby attractions, onsen bath is great with an outdoor infinity pool on rooftop overseeing the view of the lake. all meals were served in buffet manner and the food was surprisingly good with a great number of choices, mainly japanese dishes. one drawback is there are only 3 coined washing machines for laundry

We spent two nights at this property earlier this month, as Akanko (i.e. Lake Akan) has a variety of things to do and we wanted to make the most of our time there. The Lake Akan area of Eastern Hokkaido is blessed with some of the country's most incredible natural environments including old-growth forests, a pristine lake, scenic mountains, mud volcanoes and the Marimo, a unique and unusual freshwater green algae that is shaped like a green ball and which can grow to about the size of a volleyball. There is also a cultural element to the area, as Ainu Kotan is one of Hokkaido's largest Ainu (indigenous people) settlements with roughly 130 individuals calling the place home. Aino Kotan has a main ***** that has a variety of stores selling Ainu handicrafts as well as restaurants serving traditional Ainu cuisine. There is also a museum and a performing arts center, giving visitors the opportunity to enjoy a variety of Ainu performing arts. You can also reserve a private guided tour with an Ainu descendent who you will follow through a pretty forest while he/she explains how the Ainu used to live. Akan Tsuruga Besso Hinanoza (that's its full name) is a luxury ryokan established in 2004 by the Tsuruga Group, and is just steps away from the lake shore. It's ideally situated - almost everything we wanted to experience (Ainu Village, Lake cruise, hiking, shopping) is within short walking distance from the ryokan. That said, the entire town is clustered in a small area along the South shore of the lake, so wherever you stay, it's going to be convenient. The property is in a nondescript 7-story building, although it's in pretty good shape from the outside (which is not the case with many older ryokans of this type.) Inside, in the common areas there are a variety of wood carvings that are on display; the indigenous Ainu are renowned for their woodworking skills, the displays are a wonderful tribute to the local Ainu artisans. Of the 25 rooms at Hinanoza, 4 of them are Tokubetsu-****su (”Special”) units that are 110m² in size, and are denoted as Ama no Za Suite. Our Tokubetsu-****su was on the 6th floor (the highest floor among guest rooms), and was named the Hina no Za (#601.) As is the case with most suites at top ryokans, it featured a living room, a tatami room and a separate bedroom. The decor and furnishings were Japanese-contemporary and of high quality - the hard product was fantastic overall. The Onsen bath is located on the deck, and is free-flowing and not recirculated... perfect. As was the case with Sanyoan, our Special room had two toilets in different areas of the Suite, although - curiously - featured only one sink. Mrs. KI-NRT would take that trade-off any day of the week. Hinanoza does have the obligatory Daiyokujo (gender-segregated communal Onsen bath), but given that every room here has en-suite Onsen, the vast majority of guests will never leave the comforts of their room. It was empty every time we took a peak in the Daiyokujo. All

We loved the entrance to our room. Modern yet traditional wooden framing. Felt like entering a high end Japanese restaurant. The check in was very welcoming. Everything was explained well an the front desk could speak good English. There were many shops in the hotel and the sister hotel beside it. We could use both onsens. The onsen was like a water park, so many different pools to check out. One night was definitely not enough here. Dinner was a great show! So much great quality food. You would never be able to try everything. The seafood was so fresh. Breakfast was super good as well. Highly recommended!

Service is average as they only speaks Japanese. It's a shared toilet facility which is not so convenience. Have to go all the way down to 1st floor to bath in the onsen room with the mass public make me a little bit embarrasing. All facilities was quite run-down with poor maintenance. Only good things is the breakfast which is quite localised and yummy.

EXCELLENT hotel. Has a minimalist luxury façade the moment your car pulls into the entrance driveway. Staff are friendly and accomodating from the start. The lobby is gorgeous with a view of a section of the Akan river. The onsen is great too. We were BLOWN AWAY by the dinner and breakfast food in terms of taste, variety, presentation and styling. The servers did not speak much English but they were trying their best and were very friendly! We are so sorry we do not really speak Japanese. We had a room with a view of the river. Several deer were just outside the window. Beautiful aura of the place. 10/10 recommend. Wish we had 1 more night :) The room itself BLEW us away! It's small but thoughtfully designed, great for bird watching. Absolutely loved the room!!!!

I stayed for family trip (3pax) for one night. Price is reasonable but not as satisfactory as imagined. Room is small, no big bath in the facility as more and more business hotels are equipped, and the location is a bit far off from the food & entertainment area of the city. Nevertheless if you are looking for a reasonable accommodations I still recommend for consideration especially traveling solo or 2 pax.