Homestays in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

I spent four great nights at Yamashiroya Ryokan when I was visiting for sight seeing and skiing. The owner was very nice and looked after me very well. She is a great cook as well and the breakfasts were excellent! I would definitely stay again if I was in the area.

5mins walk from the bus station(sendai - Kaminoyama). 15mins walk from the rail station. 0mins walk from the free shuttle bus of Zao Liza World ski place. Self service, shared bathroom and shared toilet. Recommended for people who is going to ski at Liza world.

It is very hard to go there at night in winter but the owner is very kind.

餐點非常豐盛美味，房間就可以看到鳥海山了！溫泉也很舒服，不過大眾浴池比較小～ 可惜來訪的時候天氣不佳，沒有看到滿天星星。

It is 5 minutes walk from the station that climbed the Tengendai ropeway. Please note that you need to buy a round trip ticket. The observatory of the beautiful view is in front of you. It is also directly connected to the genre. The owner is very gentle and likes music. If you are lucky, you may listen to live!

The reception staff was very kind, the single room was well equipped, clean and comfortable, and the breakfast was delicious.

I spent four great nights at Yamashiroya Ryokan when I was visiting for sight seeing and skiing. The owner was very nice and looked after me very well. She is a great cook as well and the breakfasts were excellent! I would definitely stay again if I was in the area.

The boss is very good

Friends booked us in at Sangoro so we could ski in / out... and it truly is ski in/out... not like places at the bottom of the hill where u can only ski in/out if there’s a decent amount of snow. Sangoro is at mid-mountain, so if the resort is open for the winter season, you can ski in / out of this hotel. The disadvantage of being at mid-mountain is that there is only Sangoro there and you can’t leave / get back there from The main village after 5pm. So all your evenings are spent at the hotel. It wasn’t a problem for us, but I think you’d get cabin fever if u stayed there too long. They have a reasonable dinner menu that is mostly Japanese but has a few western and vegetarian options (spaghetti with soy meat and margarita pizza). They have a soft drink machine and soup machine which are free for people staying there (all u can drink). There’s also a pool table, table tennis table, a few games and a massage chair u can use (the massage chair is quite good after a day on the slopes). The bathrooms are Japanese (shared) but you can only use them between 7-9am and 5-10pm... only showers can be used in the morning but they fill up the big hot baths in the evenings. The women’s bathroom is down on the lowest level, so you have to go down 2 or 3 flights of stairs to get there. Men’s bathroom is on the main floor, with the hotel rooms 1 and 2 floors above. There are no elevators, so you need to be ok with climbing the fairly steep stairs and carrying luggage up/down. They have a drying room on the lowest level for ski gear, but someone kept opening the window in the room so it was always very cold in there (no point putting your stuff in there to dry). One thing everyone in our group complained about was the beds and/or pillows... not comfortable at all! I had poor sleep as I had to keep rotating all night or my arm or leg would go numb. The people working at the hotel are really nice. Some of them speak better English than others... we didn’t have any language issues but we did have a couple of people in our group who speak good Japanese, which was helpful for anything complicated. To get to the hotel you have to catch the Chuo Ropeway up to mid-mountain and get the hotel to pick you up in their special car (on tracks to drive on the snow). If you need lift tickets it’s a little cheaper to purchase them from the hotel but you. I enjoyed my time at Sangoro (except the beds), but it’s not somewhere I’d stay for a really long time due to its remoteness (there are really good and not so good things about being isolated on the mountain).

5mins walk from the bus station(sendai - Kaminoyama). 15mins walk from the rail station. 0mins walk from the free shuttle bus of Zao Liza World ski place. Self service, shared bathroom and shared toilet. Recommended for people who is going to ski at Liza world.

Foreign websites can not be booked very popular, Ctrip was booked by me to the last one! The core town of Tibetan King Hot Spring Scenic Area is very small. This homestay is operated by an old couple in pension village (Wood House Village) on the edge of the town. If you don't drive by yourself, you need to discuss the daily pick-up time with the boss. It takes only five minutes to drive to the town, but it can't walk. The boss is very enthusiastic and punctual. He will use a translator to communicate with you, so there is no pressure to communicate. Basically go skiing in the morning and return to the homestay at night. The homestay is unexpectedly more cost-effective than the town. Breakfast is 3000yen per person, dinner is 4000yen per person, very rich, and the price of drinks is fair! This kind of wooden house will have insects, which is the kind of awkward mobile, the size of peanut grains, and it will not affect people's rest without biting. It will be fine to see the tape provided by the hotel sticking out of the window or letting it go outside the window. I think the only downside is that the wooden house is poorly soundproofed. The homestay stipulates that it is a rest time after ten o'clock in the evening, but if you encounter unqualified tenants, you will be noisy.

It is very hard to go there at night in winter but the owner is very kind.