Tsurugi Koizuki

On a weekend in late November, my wife and her parents visited the inn. It is located in the middle of a rice field, so much so that you may wonder why it was built in such a place. It is a lone inn. The exterior looks more like a training center or a special nursing home than a hotel, and it feels quite old. When you enter the entrance, you will find a spacious lobby, with the front desk and a shop in the corner. The lobby and front desk are on the second floor, and the restaurant and large public bath are on the first floor, which is semi-basement, so it is easy to move between the rooms on the second floor by stairs. My wife and I stayed in a Western-style room on the fourth floor, and my parents stayed in a Japanese-style room with an open-air bath on the second floor. Both rooms are spacious, and the open-air bath in the room has a shower, so we can do almost everything except for meals in the room. My parents are elderly, so they found the open-air bath in the room and the mini-kitchen very useful. The Western-style room is a type where you take off your shoes and stay on the Ryukyu tatami mats, which is very relaxing. The large public bath has a large indoor bath, a reclining bath that can fit up to four people, a dry sauna, a cold bath, and an open-air bath. The water is said to be alkaline simple spring water, but the water is dark brown like the mall hot springs in Tokachi, and it is slightly slimy and lukewarm, so you can enjoy the hot spring for a long time. Perhaps because there are many open-air rooms in the guest rooms, there were only two or three people in the large public bath at any one time. (We took three baths, and it was almost full that day.) Dinner is served in two parts, starting at 6:00 and 7:30. We had the standard course with wagyu beef teppanyaki, and the number of dishes and the amount were sufficient. We thought the wagyu beef was just a bonus, but they brought a lot of it, so much so that the solid fuel for the stove ran out if we were to relax. We had matsutake rice for the last meal. Breakfast is buffet style, and I think the number of dishes is quite large. I think this facility was originally a public facility like Kanpo no Yado and Welfare Pension Wel Sanpia? It has such an atmosphere, and there are traces here and there that make you think it was built during the bubble era. There are many unused wasted spaces on each floor, and the large public bath is too impressive considering the number of rooms, so some of the open-air bath and indoor bath are not filled with hot water. The sauna wall is left partially broken, and the maintenance of the washrooms in the changing rooms is not very good. It seems to be run by a hotel chain that has several hotels in Mikawa and Kofu, but you can see the shadows of their tearful efforts to somehow manage such an impressive facility with low costs, and I felt that the most notable example of this was the dim lighting in the lobby, which is too large. I'm not the only one who feels a little disappointed, as the staff and guests are thoughtful and considerate, such as the provision of two room keys and the slipper clips in the large public bath. I think the staff and guests are on the older side. Thank you for your help.