Darren
October 7, 2023
5-10 minutes walk from Nagano station. Although the hotel seems rather old (from the 80s-90s) the room was nice, clean and spacious. Staff were very friendly as well. The reception lounge also had complimentary drinks, coffee, tea, chocolate, which was nice.
Breakfast was buffet, traditional Japanese breakfast style, with some western dishes like scrambled eggs and sausages. Really good spread, atypical Japanese breakfast items like stewed daikon and fish, miso eggplant, and onsen egg among others. They tasted really good too, and gives a warm and homely feeling which made me very happy (both in stomach and heart). Not to mention the restaurant was on the 12th floor, so you get a nice view of the townscape and trains passing by.
Tldr, it was a nice stay for what it was worth, even by Japanese standards.