Taiya Ryokan

매우 친절한 직원들, 그리고 훌륭한 조식, 넓고 깨끗한 룸, 후지산이 보이는 전망 등 최고였음.

The staff were nice. The manager was always happy to say hello and had good English.

Where to start… I mean it wasn’t bad, but I wouldn’t stay here again. The bathroom was all mouldy and set off my asthma everytime I went to toilet. The showers were unisex and 3 floors below. The onsen was quite dirty really and sides were mouldy and same with floor. The bathroom door didn’t go all the way to the ceiling so was very very self conscious having a shower incase someone could look over as I kept hearing people talk right outside. There was no soap in the toilets to wash my hands in so had to go buy some myself to use, same with a toilet or tissue for hands. I got told I was on ladies only floor but my next door neighbor was male. They made me give my key back everytime I left - which I get to an extent of not wanting me to loose it, but it’s left in a basket on front desk that is not manned all the time so anyone can come in and take key and find room number and go in, this caused me loads of anxiety and in the end took so much of my stuff with me throughout day I hurt back carrying it all up the mountain. The kitchen looked horrendously unclean from a distance. It’s very loud in street below and as the walls are very thin, neighbors are very loud. I hardly slept because the bed was very uncomfortable, the head was lower than the rest of it so I was sleeping at an angle, the pillow was a bean bag and ended up just sleeping on a hoodie instead as that was a lot more comfortable. I also said I didn’t need room cleaning during day and left the inner door slightly open to my hand width to see if anyone would go in, but came home to it being completely shut so someone did. The walls in bedroom didn’t fit either, there was polystyrene blocking up the hole into the room next door. Was just the building and up keep really. Gave me too much anxiety staying here. And wouldn’t again. But staff were nice and had good English, so not all bad.

The hosts were very patient with me despite my late arrival. Very nice accommodation with options for self-catering

Perhaps the only challenge was the bathroom being in a different floor and they only have shared showers

I didn’t realize the significance of this ryokan before staying

Very kind people. The room was very spacious and we saw Mt.fuji right from our window. Great place to stay.