📍Samana Hotel Yakushima
Samana Hotel Yamkushima, which just rebranded and reopened at the end of April, is a super high-value hotel, so I've summarized its recommended points 💡
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①Food
The breakfast and dinner buffets are absolutely delicious!
The variety is wide and the menu changes every day, so you won't get bored even if you stay for several nights 😋I liked the risotto at the live kitchen in the evening and the seafood bowl in the morning 🤤
Above all, the 90-minute all-you-can-drink option for ¥2200/¥3300 is amazing, so if you're going to drink more than three drinks, this is definitely the place to go. It's fun to try a lot of local sake 🍶
At night, the lounge turns into a bar, so you can also drink cocktails inspired by Yakushima 🍸
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②Hot springs
The large bath is a thick natural hot spring with a spectacular open-air bath ♨️
It is said that it is alkaline and contains baking soda, so it has emulsifying and cleansing effects.
After hiking every day, we were exhausted and covered in sweat and rain, so the hot spring at the inn was a must 🫠
When we got back from hiking, we went straight to the hot spring → laundromat → dinner while doing our laundry was our routine 🧺
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③ Spectacular views
Actually, this is a hotel with beautiful sunsets, as recommended by the lady at the rental car shop 💯
You can enjoy the spectacular view of Yakushima's mountains and the sea from the open terrace 👀
What's more, the starry sky is also amazing, as Tanegashima, which has the space center next door 💫
We had an ocean view room, so we were able to soak up plenty of sunshine from the morning ☀️
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④ Value for money
Even with all this, the cheapest price on Ikyu was only ¥22,296 for a room only 🤣
The food was delicious, so I definitely wanted two meals included, but even then it was only ¥36,310~, so it was about ¥18,000 per person 😳
There may be some cheap ones as they just opened, so hurry before the price goes up 💨
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⑤ Access
We recommend renting a car to get around Yakushima, where there are few buses. But even if you can't drive, the hotel entrance is a bus stop so it's easy to get around 🚏
The Jomon Cedar tour pick-up was also at the hotel entrance 🚌
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⑥Hospitality
As it is part of the Sankara chain, the most luxurious hotel on the island, the hospitality is outstanding.
They will help you with tours and rentals, and if you order a lunch box for the hiking day (¥1,050 for breakfast and lunch) by 7pm the day before, you can pick it up at the front desk before you go out 🍱
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Personally, I recommend staying at Samana for two nights and then Sankara for one night before heading back.
Sankara is too expensive for ordinary people to stay for multiple nights, so I'd go to Samana for active days, and Sankara for relaxing🔥
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📍Samana Hotel Yakushima
🗺️Yakushima Town, Kagoshima Prefecture
🕒Check-in 15:00/Check-out 11:00
💰From ¥23,000/room
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