Oirase Mori no Hotel

This is a very excellent hotel for a visit to Oirase Gorge. 1) The staff is polite and efficient. I am especially grateful to front desk Kousuke Narumi who patiently made many calls to JR Shin-Aomori station and JR Sin-Hakodate station to find my handphone which I left on the shinkansen at Hachinohe station. He managed to arrange for me to collect it at Shin-Hakodate station where it was found. He also called a taxi for us to Tsutanuma and arranged for the taxi driver to fetch us back. It costs 3300 yen one way. He also reserved a taxi for me the next morning to Ishikedo. It costs 2900 yen. He is very helpful and cheerful throughout our time there. He is an asset to this hotel. 2) The room is spacious with a separate sofa area. Bed is very comfortable. There is a drying rack in the room. 3) There are four separate baths at the onsen room. I love especially the outdoor bath and the jet bath. Toner and moisturizer are also provided. 4) The quality of the food for both dinner and breakfast are very good. The food is tasty and not salty. The quiche is very delicious. Dinner consists of many courses. I could change my beef course to pork. It was the most enjoyable meal during my 8 days trip. 5) After breakfast, I walked up the slope next to hotel entrance and encountered a forest path which probably leads to Yakeyama. However I did not have time to complete the walk. 6) I took the 3 hours long shinkansen ride from Tokyo and transferred to the Oirase bus at Hachinohe station. There are only two timings for this bus at 10 am and 2.40 pm. Journey is 1.5 hrs. I stopped at Yakeyama and had lunch at Garden Keiryu no Eki Oirase next to bus stop. After lunch, I walked up the slope to the hotel( 20 mins). Fortunately, a hotel employee gave us a lift when he saw us on the way.