Japanese Onsen Ryokan Kohakuen

The room was clean. Amenities were provided. The breakfast was varied and delicious. It was a wonderful hotel with a Japanese feel throughout. I also used the large public bath, but there was visible dust on the fan in the changing room. The ice cream and lemon water after the bath was very good. I would like to use it again.

The Gubaiyuan Hotel in Shihe Hot Spring Township has an elegant environment, good hot spring quality, good attitude of the waiters, and comfortable and large rooms. You can see the Southern Alps, and the breakfast is delicious. It is a good hot spring hotel.

It's old in a very good way, but it feels nostalgic. The building has a nostalgic feeling that makes you feel like you've traveled back in time to the 1960s and 1970s, but it's all very carefully cleaned, so there's nothing unpleasant about it, and I rather felt that it had a wonderful characteristic that you can't find anywhere else. We swim together in a pond with beautiful water, and unlike other facilities, the dining area is new, and the meals are quite substantial! The hot springs were very pleasant, and the staff were all kind and smiling. I want to go again.

I stayed with my mother, with breakfast and dinner included. The dinner was excellent. It was a course meal, so the portions were large for me, who eats little, but everything was delicious and I ended up eating everything. The dining area was a large semi-private room, so I was able to enjoy a leisurely conversation. The timing of the tray down was just right. Breakfast was a buffet, and although there wasn't a lot of food, it was just right considering that we had a lot of dinner, and I personally thought the food and balance were good. The room was renovated, but the bathroom (I didn't use the bath because I went to take a bath in the hot spring) was probably the same as it was before. The twin room I stayed in had a low bed and a small table and chair. The table could be a little bigger, but the room felt spacious. It's a Japanese-Western style room, so you take off your shoes at the entrance and spend the time there just like you would in a tatami room. The TV is large and you can watch subscriptions. There was iced water in a pot, which was a nice service, but when you travel abroad all the time, you start to worry about whether the water is new and you can't drink it. I don't want to think like this, but with the recent overtourism, I feel that bottled water is safer. It was unfortunate that the room door opened inwards, making it inconvenient to take off and put on shoes. We were only able to use one of the hot springs, but it was a good size and the open-air bath was nice. It was also nice that they provided lemon water and popsicles when you exited. I had planned to use the lounge, but it seems that you have to buy a prepaid wine card at the front desk, which was a bit of a hassle, so I ended up not using it. It would be nice if there was something like a ticket machine... I stayed here before, about 20 years ago, and while there was still some nostalgia from back then, there were also some new things, and I would like to come and stay again with my mother.

I stayed here for the first time in a while. Necessary amenities and small lotions are available next to the front desk. The room is a 10-tatami Japanese-style room without a veranda. It was a beautiful room that had been renovated. The large public bath on the 7th floor had a renovated cypress open-air bath, and it had a nice cypress scent. The indoor bath was also large. Since the men's and women's baths were switched, I went to a different bath the next morning, and the indoor bath had warm water and the open-air bath was larger. The early morning view from here is truly amazing. There was lemon water and new ice cream at the rest area outside the bath. For dinner, we had a restaurant with separate rooms. Dinner was a multi-course meal, and each dish was brought to us separately. All the dishes, including the sashimi and the roast beef on a Western plate, were delicious, and I was impressed with the Shingen Mizumanju, a rare fruit. The food was seasonal. Breakfast was changed from a Japanese set meal to a buffet. Personally, I would have preferred a Japanese set meal, but I guess that's unavoidable in this day and age. The breakfast was a standard buffet, but it was served in a nice private room, so there was no rush and I was able to eat at my own pace. On the 8th floor, there was a lounge and kids room that hadn't been there before, and both windows offered a wonderful view of the mountains. This is an inn I'd like to visit again in a different season.