Spa Resort Amami Yagijima Hotel <Amami-Oshima>

The open-air bath is so beautiful!!! The breakfast was also delicious♪ I came to Amami Oshima for the first time, but it's really good.

When I stayed there alone before, the food was delicious, so this time I booked with my family for two meals, which I think was about 46,000 yen per night for two people, looking forward to the first night. At dinner, we were shown the menu and told to choose between Western and Japanese food, and each of us chose sashimi and the local dish boiled pork? from the Japanese menu. The sashimi was very small and thin, and the boiled pork? seemed like leftover soup stock. It was disappointing. I was not satisfied, so when I asked at check-out, they showed me other menus. If they had given me a word of information about the other menus, I could have chosen other menus even if I had paid the extra fee, and I regret disappointing my companion. It did not live up to the slogan "Special course to reward yourself". It was poor value for money, and I will not go again.

It's about 1000 yen by taxi from downtown Naze. There is a restaurant and a large public bath where you can see the town of Naze and the ships across the bay. The building and facilities are beautiful, but the hotel has a nostalgic feel. I stayed there with a plan that includes two meals. A tourist I met recommended Western food, but I was feeling a bit tired, so I chose Japanese food (sashimi). This is a system that you can choose when you check in. It consists of a sashimi set meal on a plate of about 8 inches. It's not luxurious, but the amount is just right. The twin room faces the town of Naze, while the double room is on the other side, overlooking the parking lot below, but beyond that you can see the blue sea. The river mouth directly below is deep blue, and it really feels like you can catch something. There are no amenities such as lotion in the room, probably because the main attraction is the large public bath. The bath in the room is large, but not really necessary. It takes 5 minutes to climb to the observation deck on the mountain behind the hotel. It's deserted, but the view is open, so it's worth going. The large public bath also has a mist sauna and an open-air bath, and there were a few visitors who seemed to be locals. The changing room was very clean. There was a space where you could eat and drink just outside the large public bath, so it was probably positioned as a so-called health spa where visitors could rest. The breakfast buffet was small but included chicken rice, and the lineup made me think, "Wow, I can eat all the local specialties here." It was a good morning while looking out at the beautifully manicured lawn. On the way back, I stopped by Tanaka Isson's art museum, and apparently Isson held a solo exhibition at the Seaside Hotel, the predecessor of this hotel. It would have been even better if there had been a painting by Isson hanging there (or maybe there was one...). The staff were not too close or too far away, and provided good, heartfelt service. In short, it was a cozy hotel.