Ryokan Otsukien

It's been about 10 years since I came here. Three years ago, the guest rooms in the main building were completely renovated and turned into detached guest rooms with an exterior entrance, which together with the six existing detached buildings, evolved into a detached inn. The magnificent entrance that had been in use for a long time now serves as an entrance exclusively for outpatient bathers, and a reception desk exclusively for hotel guests is now located in the connecting passageway that separates from the main building. That's fine, but the location of the front desk is difficult to find, there's no staff on site, and you can enter the guest rooms without passing through the front desk, so I felt there were some security issues. I used the detached area again this time. After all, the bathroom here is unique and interesting. What's more, it's a smooth hot spring with a sulfur smell and plenty of hot water. You can come in as long as you want. When I first came to the public bath, there was an open-air bath, but unfortunately it is now completely covered with a roof. Meals are served at the semi-private dining room in the main building. Previously, the main weakness of this inn was its food, but when I came back for the first time in a while, I was very surprised at how much it had evolved. To be honest, I didn't have high expectations for the meal, but this time the quality of the food had improved considerably and it was incomparably more delicious than before. The dishes using spiny lobster and Ajisai beef from Kumamoto Prefecture were very good. However, there seems to be still room for improvement in hotpot and chawanmushi. Since it's a hot spring in Kumamoto, I'd like to try horse sashimi if possible. Although I feel that we have made considerable progress with this major transformation, there is still room for improvement in terms of front desk response. However, 21,000 yen per person on the day before a holiday for a luxury course meal of spiny lobster and Ajisai beef in a detached room for two people is really affordable. I would like you to aim for further improvement.