Hotel Pemandangan Gunung di Furano

Excellent hotel with great onsen and staff service. We got a free upgrade to supreme twin room at Checkin even the hotel was quite full. We were very impressed with the room, the 3 private and public onsens and all the refreshments such as ice cream, popsicles, yakult pre midnight ramen and coffee orange juice and tea provided throughout the day and night during the stay. Front desk staff speak good English and very helpful. The rooms bedding is comfortable except the pillows were a bit hard. Onsen was excellent with both indoor and outdoor and sauna. We are pleased with the hotel parking next to hotel and very pleased with the stay. Greatly recommend!

Stayed 2 nights. Corner room has a weird configurations. Room door opens into a long hallway facing the bathroom with a sink in the hallway and the bedroom off to the side via a door. The hotel is showing age but decently maintained as much as possible. The hardware seemed typical old style Japanese hotel. We had two rooms and somehow one room gets toiletry packs with coffee and another didn’t consistently. Breakfast and dinner buffet had decent spreads but nothing impressionable. No porter service was provided.

Great service and breakfast. The hotel car park is a distance away. Pretty dark n cold at night. The hotel room is new n spacious. Only concern is after 2 days, the toilet start to smell. If possible, for daily room making , please help clean the toilet.

We stayed at North Country Inn for two weeks as part of a Whiteroom tour. The rooms were huge by Japanese standard and the futon beds were just as big (super king?). The beds are a little hard by western standards but after a day of skiing I still managed to get good night sleeps. Rooms only have green tea so if you want anything else you’ll have to purchase in Japan or bring your own. There is a tv but it only has Japanese channels. The restaurant serves a fantastic buffet breakfast with muesli, toast, yogurt options as well as salads, curries, bacon, eggs, spaghetti bol, soups, potato wedges and breads etc. The staff that run this place are what make it. Their English is pretty limited but with google translate and hand gestures you can get by. Everyone is so helpful and always has a smile and willing to help where they can. There is a small lounge where you can sit with others but the bar doesn’t open until 6pm when the restaurant opens. There is a vending machine that sells beer and strong zero (alcoholic lemonade?) which you can drink in your room. There is a good drying room too. The location is about a 20minute walk to Furano ski field and there is a snow shuttle. There is a hotel restaurant that serves basic Japanese cuisine and if you want to venture further afield there are more restaurants about 30min walk away. Bear in mind you will be walking in the dark, in snowy conditions along a main road so you might just want to go by taxi. In summary we had a fantastic stay and thoroughly recommend staying with them.

Pros - 1) Convenient location close to many good eateries (Kumagera, Masaya, Sennari etc), a drugmart and a supermarket. 2) Free parking (30 lots). 3) Our room (777 - where they previously filmed a Korean drama) was spacious, clean and had a great view of the surrounding mountains. 4) Service was great even though English is a tad limited. Cons - 1) TV channels are predominantly in Japanese save for BBC and 1 Chinese channel.

部屋も広く　大浴場も大規模ホテルと違って落ちた感じでとても良かったです。 夕食の量、味とも最高です。　朝食のサラダがとても美味でした。 景色も雪景色の十勝岳が見れてしかも雲海も見れてとても良い休日を過ごしました。マイクロバスで富良野駅までの送迎があり便利です。ただ富良野スキー場からは遠くタクシーで１０分程度かかります。スキー客には難がありますがアフタースキーの温泉や午後のおやつや夕食後のアルコール、つまみ類も無料なので助かりました。

Highest praise to this inn’s fantastic staff, specially Carla, Sigi, Yuki, and Amana! They went out of their way to make our stay pleasant: booking cabs, helping us book a bus tour (Japanese only website), and always accommodating. Their English was very good, so communicating was easy. Thank you! This is not a hotel: it is an inn, and the room is more a bedroom in a house, but charming. Breakfast is good, with the main course plated; no choices (so don’t expect a buffet). What was a nice surprise was a daily late afternoon cocktails (they call it “welcome drinks”) which lasts until late in evening, and includes whisky, wines, juice, and yogurt milk. And daily free coffee (espresso type) which was particularly good! The free shuttle pick up and drop off when you check in and check out is very useful, and saves you the price of 2 cab rides (approx US$22). Be warned on Furano Station: no elevator, so you need to climb up then down steep stairs to get to the platform! Not easy with big luggages! Negatives: while room was charming and large by Japan standards, the bathroom was tiny, so if you are a plus size, you bathe with your body hitting the shower curtain or wall. Location is far from everything, so you need to take cabs all the time, with each 1-way trip to the town center costing approx. US$9-10. Nearest convenience store is maybe 15mins away, and an uphill climb back. The onsen (traditional Japanese bath) is an artificial hot springs, but a pleasant experience. A charming town, and I would consider going back to this inn if I go back to Furano.

We are a family of 4 people. We recently stayed in the two bedroom apartment for three nights. The apartment is new, airy and clean. There is even a balcony. We spent quality family time together in the living room at night which is priceless. It is cosy and comfortable. The apartment provides a full kitchen and a washing machine/dryer. Because Furano is in the middle of our Hokkaido trip, the washing machine helps a great deal for our clothes. There is even an air-conditioner which works well when the temperature was high in one day. A car park right in front of our apartment provides great convenience. The apartment is located in the beautiful Shimogoryo area. It is right in front of the famous dessert shop - Furano Delice. We walked around early morning and evening. The neighbourhood is pleasant and beautiful.

Stayed 4N at Kaku Place over he ***** New Year. We booked two 1BR apartments on different floors as they had sold out of the 2BR units. The cosy apartment had a view of the mountain and came fully equipped with kitchen, washing machine, dryer and heated towel racks. The furnishings and fittings were well maintained but the wooden floor boards showed signs of wear and stains. The bed was on the softer side. The heating worked fine but hot water took a while to heat up. Apartment came with fast WiFi and Smart TV (great for watching Netflix). The apartment had a very small closet to hang clothes. Without cupboards to store clothes we were forced to live out of our suitcases. The apartment is located in Kitanomine town and was a 15 min walk *uphill* to the lift station. The best restaurants are all located in Furano town across the river (one way ＞JPY1000 taxi ride). Upon arrival at Kitanomine town, H2 Life provided free pickup from the bus stop. On the last day, they dropped us off at the Furano Train Station. H2 also provides us with free shuttle to the lifts each morning which worked well except for 1 day when they did not turn up. Each apartment comes with its own ski locker for us to store boots, skis, bards. One evening, my daughter could not unscramble the PIN on the locker and it took us the whole night of calling H2 HQ who would then relay the message to H2 Furano. Unfortunately nobody from H2 Furano returned our calls and the locker issue was only resolved the next day.