historical, nice onsen near Iida city with a beautiful small garden. cosy Japanese bath. It’s worth to stay a night. reasonable price.

we arrived at 4 p.m.; it was not possible to arrange for a dinner ( Japanese ryokan are in general not very flexible). we found a nice restaurant 600 m away (Hoshizora, Japan, 〒395-0304 Nagano, Shimoina District, Achi, Chisato, Hirugami−5−3) with a real good menu selection ( but order starter, intermediate, main course, desert one after the other!… otherwise you get everything at the same time🫤)

we like the Japanese style of environment

the strange sounds of the heater, it’s a little annoying at night

- This is probably the nicest and most spacious room I’ve ever stayed in. We were all very happy with that. Our party of 4 had 2 rooms to share and a common space with a little TV. We didn’t use the wooden tub (partly because it was blocked by a cart and hard to open so we didn’t realize till it was too late) but it looked nice. Overall the room was the best part of our stay. - Very kind staff who showed us to our room and helped with some of the luggage. They also told us about the local fireworks show and we were just able to catch it thanks to them. - A nice onsen, not tattoo friendly, but I’ve been in better ones. There are private spaces available to rent as well. - Just overall a very pretty ryokan, especially the entryway with the rock garden and water features.

- Wifi was very spotty in our room. Not sure if it’s that way in all of them as we were staying in a corner room at the end of a hall - Pillow was small and full of beads, which is common in Japan, but never very comfortable - Breakfast is not bad per se, but it’s very traditional washoku (Japanese) style. We’ve had better washoku style breakfasts in the past at other ryokans so I wasn’t blown away by that aspect

Amazing facilities, great atmosphere including the beautiful inner Japanese garden, the leg onsen, and the rottenburo (outside onsen). The room was spacious, clean and elegantly ornamented. Kind staff and amazing breakfast!

The staff were very helpful. Being able to have breakfast and dinner at the property was essential as there were very few options in the immediate vicinity. Both breakfast and dinner each day were very enjoyable, traditional Japanese meals with a generous and wide variety of dishes. Our family room was warm and comfortable. We would stay here again.