Location and Breakfast/Dinner

Very quiet in the lobby, may be we visit at low season

Excellent and super friendly staff.

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We were here on an off-season deal in June. For 140USD pn we got a huge Japanese room (lovely) with breakfast and dinner included. When busy both dinner and breakfast were full buffet and excellent. When quiet we were served a great selection of too much food but it was still excellent quality. Local beers and gin tonice were really nice and not overpriced. The staff were mainly Myanmarese, but included Indonesian and locals, and all were polite and lovely. They were all fantastic. The private onsens are small but great. Its just across the road from the Shigakogen visitors centre, trail heads and cable car There is a well scheduled regular bus service into Yudanaka (direct to train station for connections .. takes credit cards) and the Snow Monkeys. There are Express buses to Nagano a couple of times each day. We used them for our train to Kofu, a stopover otw to Fuji. We loved this place. We only had 2 nights but would recommend 3 or 4 to do some walks, explore more, and support the youngsters who work here.

We couldn't work out how to use the air con and it was a bit warm early night

proximity to ski

staff was meh