I appreciate that the breakfast is Japanese style, but most of it was cold. I prefer hot breakfast options.

There was no shower in our room. And the bedding needed more futon layers.

Overall, it was a lovely stay and provided a beautiful traditional Japanese experience and were glad we found this gem on Powderhounds. We stayed in a washitsu which was rather spacious and had a nice Japanese style sitting area. We requested an extra futon each (as we typically do unless there are extra futons in the cupboard) to make sleeping on the floor more comfortable, and then it was great. We had a private bath and toilet, although I don’t think we used the former considering the amazing onsen. The onsen baths were lovely. Despite the ryokan only having 9 guest rooms, the indoor bath was larger than some of the Nozawa public onsen baths, and then there was a small outdoor bath for each gender as well. We might have had onsen soaks about three times a day! Breakfast in a private dining room was fantastic and included lots of different Japanese creations. After breakfast, they brought coffee up to our room. This was just one element of the amazing service levels, which included bringing our luggage to and from the carpark (which was undercover and a rarity for Nozawa), accompanying us to breakfast each morning (it would be easy to get lost in the inn!), and fetching ski boots etc.

The only limitation of the room was that the internet was patchy or non-functional (it worked well downstairs).

Location is fantastic, a few minutes walk to the yui ropeway and straight to the ski area. Also in town so walking distance to restaurants and cafes. Service was so good, the staff even offered us use of their wellingtons over our regular shoes on a particularly heavy snowy day, which was excellent advice as the snow was deep enough that we would have got all wet. Onsen also beautiful after a long day. Will definitely stay again. Arigato gozaimasu!!!