オイソ

electricity outage, not enough daily items.

Bus stop in front of the door.

Over priced. The traditional japanese room is NOT traditional style. Hallway is packed by random stuff. Not much to do in Iiyama. Host was not very hospital to us.

Checkin wasn’t till 4pm but we wanted to check out the Iiyama snow festival so they allowed us to leave our bags inside the hotels hallway. The hotel is above a Korean restaurant with a little door off to the side to enter. It was a great location with a bus stop to nozawa onsen and madarao right outside and a short walk to the castle park (which is where the snow festival was) and only 10mins easy walk from the train station. We went to nozawa onsen for a day trip after checkout and they allowed us to leave our luggage there while we were away. They have an area downstairs for skis/ snowboard it’s kinda like an open air (but enclosed) laundry area. They do have a couple of washing machines so I’m sure you could ask to use them. They had a communal hot water machine, microwave and fridge on the room level with the sinks. A 7 eleven is across the road and a huge drugstore is just a few doors down which has really good cheap snacks, drinks, alcohol, medicines etc. The owner is a (maybe alittle shy) Korean lady who used a translator (as we speak both English and easy Japanese and she speaks I think easy Japanese and Korean.) We got toothbrushes and tooth paste sachet thingo to brush our teeth.

We couldnt find the entrance to begin with and went into the Korean restaurant which they also own and run. The owners dont know any/ much English and just said "checkin not till 4pm" and waved us out, but we wanted to leave our luggage there. Even though there was only 1 person dining at the restaurant at the time it seemed a bother for her to come show us where to leave our luggage. When we came back after 4pm got our room and it had one single bed mattress and one futon so we had to choose who got what. The mattress was hard and the futon was so thin it was like sleeping on the floor so I think we both got same same comfort. There was no tea or coffee in the room or Tv. The heater kept turning itself off so we had to turn it back on several times during the night. There was only one shower which everyone has to share so you have to wait at peak times when everyone comes back to the accom. There is also only 1 toilet upstairs and 1 downstairs. You take your shoes off and wear slippers in the hotel which is fine except I got my shoes stolen once at a hotel and as I only had one pair of shoes with me for this trip I took them upstairs to put in the suitcase to keep them safe. We got a message later asking us to please leave our shoes downstairs and there is cctv so nobody will steal them. When we hadn’t responded to the message in 5 mins they messaged us again to please respond once we understood. I said thanks. They didn’t message us again. The wifi was awful and barely worked so we were lucky we got the message in the first place. There is no elevator so not good4 heavy luggage. The towels were small but I think that’s a Korean thing. One side of our window was cracked. This was the only hotel with rooms left in town during the snow festival which is why we booked it. It was a bit noisy once everyone came back at night& in the morning when everyone was getting ready to leave.