Great base for Hiraizumi, the bus for Chuonji departs from in front of the statioin, and you can see the hotel from the bus stop. My room was a typical compact business hotel room, clean, quiet. The provided breakfast is laid out in the lobby to help yourself, Japanese style breakfast, completely fine. The location is walkable to see the sights of Ichonoseki (I was given a map and recommended route by the very helpful tourist information office in front of the station west gate). My only issue was finding somewhere to eat, there are a few restaurants around the station area but the family one I enjoyed on a Monday night was shut on a Tuesday night and I didn't see anything else that appealed). Hiraizumi is a lovely town but not much there, only one soba restaurant was open for lunch in front of the station, so I'm glad I didn't stay there. It only took me about four hours to leisurely go around the UNESCO sites (didn't visit the mountain), taxi out to the cave shrine, walked to the World Heritage enter.

Free Japanese breakfast provided. Could only book a smoking room and naturally it stunk pretty bad. Very close to the station and some nice restaurants.

Location is good, less than 5 mins walk to the JR station. There is a good ramen shop downstairs. Free breakfast and all basic amenities are provided. The only thing that I don’t like is there is quite a high step between the room and washroom, might cause some small accidents if you are careless. Also the check in time is 4pm which is quite late comparing with other hotels. But overall I am very happy with the stay.

It's very close to the train station (and visible from the train station). Decent buffet breakfast. Decent wifi. Bed is a little hard, but that's true of most Japanese hotels.

Close to the train station and the staff spoke English

Service oriented reception. Very friendly and also like the breakfast staff who manage it. Felt welcome. Hotel seems to be new, everything is clean and tidy. Very near to the train station.

Everything was comfortable and homey!

nice location

Good service and transportation. Reasonable price and free breakfast. Have everything in the room and couldn't be better.

Great location, well presented property, would stay again

Great location, well presented property, would stay again

5 mins walk from JR station. The room is clean but very small (twin room) that we always get kicked. The TV size in the room is good. The breakfast, unlike other hotels of the same kind, lacks fish and milk and with a long queue which is not great if we need to rush our schedule.

Convenient hotel close to the train station, where the restaurants and convenient stores are near. The hotel also got laundry machines so no more laundry problems during the trip.

Clean & close to station. Good breakfast