“Hosts Yoshi and Seongmi are really friendly and genuinely care about you having a great time. They gave us good tips for things to do and places to eat in the local area which really helped us. The place itself is really accessible via public transport and a great place to explore further from - we walked to the snow monkeys and used the train a couple of times to explore the local area.
Rooms are very clean and comfortable, and the shared bathrooms were also exactly what we needed for our stay.
Highly recommended to stay here!”
“At first I was not sure if the previous comments were exaggerated, but it turned out they were not: my stay was amazing and one of my best experiences in Japan. A beautiful Japanese-style room all for myself, a delicious breakfast, and many cheerful conversations with Yoshiro-san. The mountains and garden are delighting, and the place is so quiet that I slept without earplugs. Being here off-season was also very relaxing: Monkey Park, Shibu-onsen, Hokusai-kan at Obuse, and so on, with no crowds at all. Yoshiro-san is a wonderful host and he generously gave me a ride to many places to see. Thank you so much Yoshiro-san!”
“I loved the look of this hotel from the outside in, it's so cosy. The beds were great and particularly the duvet / quilt. I'm still dreaming of the cosy quilt! Everything inside was so well thought out and beautiful - the games room with tatami, the inside garden window area, the dining room. I loved the breakfast of fruits, cereal, yogurt, toast, tea, coffee, juice - plenty to set us up for the day and nice and healthy. Hosts Yoshi and Sue were really welcoming and helpful, offering recommendations and help. We loved the sake on arrival too! We found Aibiya very convenient for the station and the bus to the snow monkeys and it was a lovely walk back from the snow monkey park, even in rain. Shiba Onsen, just up the road, is a more atmospheric town than Yudanaka, but they join together, and it's less convenient for the train! I also loved their ethos to have a little local craft shop at the front, to recycle and compost and to have an area in which guests could leave anything they didn't want to travel on with and Yoshi and Sue would repurpose, donate, or rehome it.”
“A truly memorable stay! The owner/manager and his family run this as an efficient labour of love. Super comfortable, spotless and with a lot of character. Lovely staff/owners, great food with local beers and wines, amazing onsen rooms. Short walk to the base of the slopes in the best (in our opinion) part of shiga-kogen for skiing. Popular for good reason, don't leave it too long to book!”
“The location is remote, but the host is happy to drive you around, honestly had an amazing stay, he uses google translate so you can understand each other.”
“It is set about a 10’ walk (slight uphill) from Yudanaka train station, and is a convenient base for visiting the snow monkeys, and onsens.
Inspite of it being an old wooden house, it was calm and quiet; and I had most peaceful nights.
The hosts were very caring and gave me good tips on places to visit.”
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