Hotel 5 Bintang Terbaik di Kushiro

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!

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.

This is our 2nd stay at this hotel. Stayed for a night on our drive while visiting north eastern Hokkaido between Rausu n Tsurui. Had a twin room with views of the ocean. Nice comfortable room with modern amenities. There is a charge for the carpark and did not have any meals at the hotel. Most stay around here if you want to visit Lake Akan district (still an hour drive as speed limit n single lane road most of it). Good hotel base if you want to visit Tsurui as it’s about 30mins drive and there are not much accommodation choices in Tsurui.

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。

We stopped here for one night between Lake Akan and Sapporo - we had a car and wanted to see the red crane sanctuary. The hotel picture is deceiving. It is not, or is no longer, a glamorous hotel. This average hotel is ”on the wrong side” of the river and the town of Kushiro is sad and despairing. Two out of three establishments were closed and/or boarded up and the town was shabby and down at heel. We heard 2 of its 3 big industries (coal and paper) are under pressure with only fishing bringing in the revenue. In short, it is not worth stopping in Kushiro even for one night. In hindsight we would have got up early and driven through to Sapporo (no other town hit us as a stopover as we travelled through the next day) and as it happens the best crane reserve (Tancho), in our view for this time of the year is en route to the expressway anyway. We were in Kushiro on a Sunday and there was almost nowhere to eat for dinner - the hotel restaurant was not open and the recommendations given by the hotel were not open either and were on the other side of the river. We ended up walking to the other side of the river to the ANA Crowne Plaza for a ”coffee shop” dinner = we felt lucky to find anything open - Lawsons was looking like our dinner diner! We could find literally nothing open for lunch other than a Tullys Coffeeshop hidden down a deserted ally. The choices were very limited. I had what turned out to a honey pizza - not what I had in mind ordering a pizza - the photo did not indicate this surprise either.

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 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.

The dormy inn is a bit small and older than the other dormy inns i have stayed before. However, we were surprised to learn that this dormy inn offers iced coffee, oolong teas, and pops during 3-9pm, where normal dormy inns would just offer regular hot coffee and americanos. We were so lucky to be able to watch and experience the sunset on the top floor resting area (where the onsen is also location on). The sunset was stunning (tho the ANA Crowne Plaza blocked some of the view) and it was one of the most beautiful sunset i've ever experienced.

I booked a room at this hotel through Bookings.com, where rooms at their so-called 'Crystal Wing' were the only ones offered. The room cost me 28,000 yen a night but I decided to fork out the exorbitant price for a nice resort by the lake. However, as it turned out, the 'Crystal Wing' is actually an annex. It is originally a different hotel called the Crystal Hotel, which was acquired by the Hotel New Akan next door. The lobby and restaurant of this 'annex' were closed, so we assumed that only the rooms were used to accommodate guests. I don't have problems with annex rooms in other hotels, but for this one, I do. The Crystal Wing is so shabby and run down. The hallways are musty and smelly. It has its own small elevator with buttons so dirty that you don't want to put your finger on. The room looks like it does in the website picture. It looks clean. What is unseen though is the stale musty air! It was so awful to be breathing in the room. The windows cannot be opened, so you are forced to inhale the stale air from the old central AC. It’s really ironic because the fresh mountain air is just outside. What's worse is that the room smells of cigarettes even when it is supposed to be a non-smoking room. Also, the door does not close properly and has to be slammed to shut. The bed is reasonably comfortable, but the sheets do not have the scent of freshly laundered linen, and neither were the yukatas. This gives the impression that the room has not been used in a long time. The yukatas are so worn out, I did not feel like putting them on. The toilet, though very clean, faintly smelt of the sewer. We never saw any other guests on the same floor as us in the annex building. When we looked at the building from the outside during an evening stroll, our room was the only one lighted up. Coupled with the dark, uninhabited lower floors and the sealed-off lobby of this 'Crystal Wing', we felt like we booked a room at a ghost hotel! I complained to the hotel, but all they offered was a different room in the SAME annex building. I wrote a negative review on Bookings thinking it would help other unknowing guests. However, only positive reviews are being featured on the site. Bookings is still selling these Crystal Wing rooms on their website! (No rooms in the main building are available, so this misleads guests to think that the Crystal rooms are NOT the shabbier, older rooms in a different building) Selling these old run-down rooms in the dilapidated building next door for exorbitant prices is simply unscrupulous. Avoid these Crystal rooms at all costs if you want a good night sleep and no creepy, eerie feelings as a holiday memory!