Hotel Perniagaan di Yamanouchi

Snow heaven at the Prince East Wing! A wonderful scenic location with great skiing outside the door. Good ski hire on site, very good dining and beautiful mountain views from everywhere. The staff were very, very good! Our special thanks to Saito San, Takano San and our bubbly waitress Hashimoto San in the main dining room. Each meal was extra enjoyable due to their willingness to converse with our very poor Japanese and their own much better English. We all laughed at what Google can mess up too! All staff were helpful, and the gondolas and chairs were a great way to meet people from all over the world, as skiers always do! All of the mountain runs (green and blue) I tried were challenging and enjoyable for a very average senior skier from Australia. Bus from Nagano to the resort was wonderful to see incredible views. Our 5th floor Comfort Room was very good with wonderful vista of ski slopes to enjoy. Very clean and overall quiet hotel, and hopefully once staffing levels are back to normal the bar area will reopen. We enjoyed the very best Shiatsu massage at the Prince west Wing by a lovely experienced lady. Yes there are elements that reflect the Japanese Ski Bubble era but overall the one and only drawback was no hot spring onsen on site. Will most certainly stay there again if lucky enough to ski Nagano again.

The accommodation was amazing value for money. The futons were very comfy with the pillows were soft. There are three indoor hot springs you can use: one private, one public for men and another public for women. The onsen was refreshing and you can easily adjust the temperature. The host, Mr. Yumoto was extremely helpful and kind. He also fetched us for free to the snow monkey park. Definitely worth a stay if you want the quality ryokan experience at a budget.

Very helpful staff and friendly given we didn’t speak the language- night staff researched wooden article I bought and showed me the local tree it was made from. Just went the extra mile.

I booked a night in Yudanaka with my partner so that we could visit the Snow Monkey Park. Most places were already booked up, so we went for Yorozuya (sometimes romanised as Yoroduya) even though it was a little beyond our budget. At £300 a night for a double room with dinner and breakfast, I thought “this had better be good…” Honestly, it was probably worth double that. The ryokan itself is massive; the atrium has a scale that almost defies sense. We were greeted by staff who were awaiting our arrival, and took our luggage up to our room while we enjoyed a complementary matcha tea. A guide led us up the stairs, handed us XL yukata to wear during our stay and explained the situation with towels. She took us in the lift to our room, and showed us how to access the onsens and where the dining halls would be. We took a few moments to settle into our tatami-floored room, change into our yukata, and investigate the albeit pretty boring view from our balcony. For the record: the joy here is _inside_ the ryokan rather than outside. We tested both the on-site onsen; they operate on schedules so that male guests and female guests bathe separately, but can both enjoy both of the baths. It is worth trying both. It’s a cliché to say, but particularly coming from Europe without much experience of this kind of venue, they made me feel like I was in Spirited Away, if Spirited Away was a series of Hokusai prints. I loved relaxing in the heat of the outdoor bath surrounded by rocks, trees and classically Japanese sculptures, with snow gently falling. Suitably relaxed, it was time for dinner. This was worth the whole booking price alone. We were served a 10-course kaiseki dinner, in a private booth, with attentive staff bringing us fresh water and sake whenever we desired. Every single bite was exquisite. While not 10 courses, this extended into breakfast which was a similar luxurious experience. I was sad we only had one night there, and would go back in a heartbeat. The experience of staying here creates a stronger draw for me to return to Yudanaka than the snow monkeys. We were treated so well, and truly unwound in a setting that felt almost too good to be real.

If you plan to ski in Shiga Kogen and you’re wondering where to stay, you have to answer a first basic question: do you stay in a contemporary hotel up on the slopes, or down in the valley in a traditional Japanese ryokan with an onsen fed by natural hot springs? This review is a recommendation to go for the ryokan experience, and specifically for the Shibu Hotel in the village of Yudanaka. To understand the Shibu’s charms I’m prefacing my comments with what I think is important context and useful info. Shiga Kogen is a vast ski area of 18 interlinked resorts. The resorts are located on the slopes of the mountains at about 1400 meters (4600 ft). Many appear to have been built in the 1990s for the Nagano olympics. Many of them are ski in/out. We did not visit any of them, but as best we could tell there are few if any restaurants, bars or convenience stores that aren’t located inside a hotel. These are resorts. The resort experience is probably great. There are so many lifts and gondolas that we literally did not have to wait in line once. There are so many trails that we never felt crowded. There were even times we had an entire piste to ourselves from the summit at 2000 meters to the gondola station below. In five days skiing we managed to explore a fraction of the Shiga area. It’s fabulous. If all you want to do is shred, ski out at 8:30 and ski back in at 4:30, this is the place to do it. You can ski till you drop. But if you also want a bit of the Japanese cultural experience, you should stay in Yudanaka, an ancient little village built around the Shibu Onsen hot baths whose history goes back more than a thousand years to when it was the place for a bath and a rest for pilgrims on their way to the Zenkoji Temple. Yudanaka is the last stop on the Nagano Dentetsu electric rail line. The main village lane is a charming narrow street cobbled with small pavers and lined by traditional wooden ryokan and small stores (one converted to a free public table tennis hall), interspersed by skinny alleys that lead up the hillside to who knows where. There are also little restaurants -typically seating no more than a dozen people- next to shrines, old carved-stone, spring-fed foot baths and, of course, the onsen. There are nine onsen in Yudanaka. Each taps a different hot spring in the mountains above - each is said to deliver water with slightly different mineral properties, to treat different types of ailments. Some people buy a commemorative junyoku on which to collect a stamp from each onsen. All guests staying in the member-ryokans are welcome to use the onsen for free (non guests pay a small fee). So foreigners and Japanese both walk the village lane, wearing their yukata and geta, more about which later. These nine public onsen are maintained by a group of village ryokan owners. We stayed in one of these inns called the Shibu Hotel. It was one of the most charming travel experiences of our lives. Management of a ryokan

I had one extra day at the end of a business trip, so I took the train to see the snow monkeys. I'm glad I stayed overnight at this ryokan. Excellent hospitality and friendly helpful staff. Gave me ride from local train station to ryokan, and from ryokan to Snow Monkey Park (even better, suggested I leave my luggage at the Roman museum since they noticed that the Snow Monkey Park gift shop had not opened promptly at 9:00 AM the previous day, drove me to the Roman museum, helped me drop off my luggage (no help needed, but they insisted...), and then drove me to the Snow Monkey Park). Large room and excellent food. Fun to wander the streets and try all of the onsen. Highly recommend!

Dengan penginapan di Shibu Onsen Sakaeya di Yamanouchi, anda akan berada dalam lingkungan 5 minit memandu dari Kawasan Ski Shiga Kogen dan Mata Air Panas Yudanaka. Ryokan ini berada 2.7 km dari Taman Monyet Jigokudani dan 29.3 km dari Pusat Peranginan Salji Nozawa Onsen.Gunakan peluang rekreasi seperti mata air panas atau kemudahan lain yang termasuk akses Internet wayarles percuma dan kedai hadiah atau gerai surat khabar.Dapatkan santapan anda di salah sebuah daripada kedai kopi atau kafe di ryokan, atau pilih untuk menjamu selera dalam bilik dengan menggunakan perkhidmatan bilik (semasa waktu terhad). Hilangkan dahaga anda dengan minuman kegemaran anda di bar/ruang istirahat. Sarapan Jepun disediakan pada setiap hari dari 7:30 hingga 9:00 dengan dikenakan bayaran.Kemudahan yang ditampilkan adalah termasuk stesen komputer, tempat simpanan bagasi dan peti simpan selamat di meja/kaunter hadapan. Perkhidmatan pengambilan dari stesen kereta api disediakan tanpa dikenakan bayaran manakala tempat letak kenderaan sendiri percuma terdapat di tapak hartanah.Selesakan diri anda di salah satu daripada 25 bilik tamu yang menampilkan peti sejuk dan pemain DVD. Akses Internet wayarles percuma membolehkan anda sentiasa berhubung, sedangkan televisyen skrin rata disediakan untuk hiburan anda. Bilik mandi dilengkapkan dengan kelengkapan dandanan diri percuma dan bidet. Kemudahan yang disediakan merangkumi peti besi dan cerek elektrik, manakala pengemasan disediakan setiap hari.

Dengan penginapan di Hotel Takimoto di Yamanouchi (Tanah Tinggi Shiga), anda akan berada dalam lingkungan 10 minit memandu dari Kawasan Ski Shiga Kogen dan Tanne no Mori Okojo Ski Resort. Hotel ini berada 12.8 km dari Taman Ski Ryuoo dan 17.6 km dari Mata Air Panas Yudanaka.Nikmati pemandangan dari teres dan gunakan kemudahan seperti akses Internet wayarles percuma dan tempat simpanan peralatan ski. Hotel ini juga menampilkan dewan bankuet dan mesin layan diri.Di Hotel Takimoto, nikmati sajian yang memuaskan di restoran.Hilangkan dahaga anda dengan minuman kegemaran anda di bar/ruang istirahat.Kemudahan yang ditampilkan adalah termasuk tempat simpanan bagasi, kemudahan dobi dan peti simpan selamat di meja/kaunter hadapan. Tempat letak kenderaan sendiri percuma terdapat di tapak hartanah.Inaplah di salah satu daripada 29 bilik tamu yang menampilkan televisyen skrin rata. Akses Internet wayarles percuma disediakan untuk membolehkan anda sentiasa berhubung. Kemudahan yang disediakan merangkumi meja, manakala pengemasan disediakan setiap hari.

Dengan penginapan di Yudanaka Yumoto, anda akan berada betul-betul di tengah Yamanouchi, tidak jauh dari Mata Air Panas Yudanaka dan 12 minit berjalan kaki dari Kawasan Ski Shiga Kogen. Ryokan ini berada 27.8 km dari Pusat Peranginan Salji Nozawa Onsen dan 4 km dari Taman Monyet Jigokudani.Berseronoklah dengan kemudahan rekreasi seperti mata air panas atau kecapi pemandangan dari taman.Sarapan penuh disediakan pada setiap hari dari 7:30 hingga 9:30 dengan dikenakan bayaran.Kemudahan yang ditampilkan adalah termasuk tempat simpanan bagasi dan peti simpan selamat di meja/kaunter hadapan. Tempat letak kenderaan sendiri percuma terdapat di tapak hartanah.Selesakan diri anda di salah satu daripada 5 bilik berhawa dingin yang menampilkan peti sejuk dan televisyen skrin rata. Akses Internet wayarles percuma disediakan untuk membolehkan anda sentiasa berhubung. Bilik mandi dilengkapkan dengan kelengkapan dandanan diri percuma dan bidet. Kemudahan yang disediakan merangkumi peti besi dan air botol percuma, manakala pengemasan disediakan setiap hari.

リフト券付きプランで宿泊。 到着したら、荷物置き場に全部トランクから降ろして、駐車場までスタッフの方が車で案内してくれて、駐車したら送迎してくれる。 ゲレンデまでは、ほぼ目の前。リフト券を朝フロントで貰えるので面倒無し。 お部屋は洋室でキレイ。 お風呂は温泉ではないけど広くて寛げる。 夕食はメインディッシュ付きのハーフバイキング。最近稀に見る豪華な感じで味もいい。 朝食もバイキング。 美味しく頂きました。　 接客も丁寧で、楽しいスキーの二日間を過ごせました。 駐車場まで距離があるのがスキーの後の体に堪える。