Chose this place due to its proximity to Hell Valley and main shopping street. Twin room is a good size with a small bathroom. Flask of boiled water and chilled water jug is a nice touch. After exploring trails of Hell Valley, feels great after soaking in 7 different types of onsen in sister hotel Daiichi. Recommended stay.
Hanayura kept appearing as one of the top ryokans in Noboribetsu whilst researching, so we decided to try it for 1 night. First impressions - I thought it would be a small ryokan, but it turns out that it is more of a mid-sized establishment spanning over 8 floors. The entire ryokan is very dated; one gets the feeling that you have been transported back to the 80s. Perhaps this may have passed off as 'traditional' to some but I think it is possible to do traditional yet elegant - this just felt extremely dated. I suppose this would not be too bad if it were priced accordingly, but having paid US$600 a night, I definitely did not expect this standard. It felt more like a 3-star hotel. The main upside that the kaiseki dinner was very good, surpassing expectations. The staff were also very friendly and helpful. In short, a reasonable stay but I did not think it was value for money.
不論是商務還是休閑旅客,雅亭酒店(Park Hotel Miyabitei)都能讓您的登別之行變得更加美好而難忘。從酒店很方便到達JR登別站,僅有6km距離。包括湯澤神社、泉源公園和登別温泉鎮都在短距離內,入住酒店的旅客在該地區遊覽會很方便。酒店鄰近多個熱門旅遊景點,包括新登別大橋、俱多樂湖和登別伊達時代村,旅客可以將行程安排的更加緊湊。在結束一天的行程後,您可以盡情享受酒店的按摩室。酒店會為自駕的客人提供停車場。
Noboribetsu, Hokkaido Prefecture. Filled with the mists of the North Pacific Ocean deep in the forrest valley lies the home of the thermal volcanic “hell valley”, all-natural hot springs, lakes, and the cuddly Bear Mountain Park. This is a tourist’s escape from whatever burdens them in the city, into the natural wonderland of mountains, hot spring streams, and warm local hospitality. The Noboribetsu Grand Hotel was opened in 1938. What was the Noboribetsu Guest House now revolutionized and expanded into a 300 plus room hotel with a finished off with a hot spring spa. Now a popular holiday getaway for the tourists both from Japan and abroad, this hotel packs itself to the brim both during the hot summers and the freezing winters. As part of our adventures down and around Hokkaido, we experienced this hotel and here’s our honest review of the Noboribetsu Grand Hotel: Our stay occurred from July 22nd to 23rd, this was our first night in Hokkaido after a long flight from Shanghai. A long hour drive from the highly trafficked New Chitose Airport would lead you to the Grand Hotel. Upon driving up, you would see how old the hotel is with its grey tiled walls and white drive up area. Greeting us at the hotel were the bellmen bowing as they would in the Japanese-style etiquette as you enter the lobby filled with one of Noboribetsu’s gift shop, monster figures, and marbled front desk area. None of the staff members spoke much English, so our lovely tour guide helped us in translation. Our check-in agent guided us through the specific details of the hotel facilities, breakfast facilities, and tatami installation times. We were given a 4-person Japanese-style “VIP” room, which consists of an at most 30 SQM space with a tatami floored living/bedroom space combination, a sitting room, a toilet room, a sink area, and a compact bathroom with separate shower & bathtub facilities. During the daytimes, living room acts a place for dining and seating with tatami chairs and a table. The TV stands at a corner. At around 7PM, the room attendants would turnover the tatami beds by moving the tables and chairs into the closet space and setting up the tatami beds. The tatami beds were rather inconvenient for us because of the size of the pillows that made of the tatami rather hard to sleep on. Don’t get us wrong, tatami beds are an efficient sleeping beds for families, but a single small sized pillow per bed makes the difference between authentic Japanese comfort and discomfort. Much of the challenge during the sleeping process was making sure your body stayed on the mattress when getting used to the firm yet small bean-filled pillow. I would recommend rooms that they provide that caters to a more westernized style with full beds. The tatami issue is a situation the hotel needs to revamp on. If they can start providing extra pillows in the closet or thicker sized pillows, it would be a great turnaround. The Japanese Hot Spring SPA concept is quite bizarre. Unlike mos