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The room we were in was huge - 2 big beds and a lounge, a huge bath and wet room. Lots of toiletries provided in the bathroom too. The heating needed to be on to 26 or 27 degrees as there was a cold draft coming from under the door and also from the cold windows. This kept the room about 22 degrees we thought. The food was dreadful and made 100 times worse as I am vegetarian... Tasteless vegetables boiled to death with very little protein offered. Breakfast was even worse and one morning I was left to have cabbage and chips as that was all there was that was vegetarian... No bread of breakfast cereal anywhere in sight. Thankfully there is a supermarket close by. It seems quite common in rural Japan to not cater for vegetarians.... so beware...

It's quite outdated with signs of wear and tear. The tatami room size is modest but clean. It's located 3 minutes of drive from Rausu port and therefore quite convenient. Both dinner and breakfast are Japanese style set meal and have a good variety of hot and cold dishes. Onsen was adequate. There isn't much choice of accommodation in the area. Next to this is Rausu Daiichi Hotel that we stayed 5 years ago, which I reckoned as slightly better than this one.

This old traditional inn inside Shiretoko National Park received a split verdict from my wife and I. I enjoyed the remote location at the end of a backroad, part way up a hillside where a trailhead begins for a popular mountain walk. It’s also a good location for access to the park’s visitor center and the popular 5 lakes area. There are 3 small public outdoor onsen baths located very near by. We both enjoyed the hotel’s indoor public baths. The night we stayed there were only two other rooms occupied. Our room was a Japanese - Western Twin, meaning it had a traditional tatami mat room, but also a separate sleeping area with western beds plus a small wet room bathroom. My wife felt the food was not that good, perhaps it suffered by comparison to some really good food we had at other lodgings. Also, during the ensuing days she discovered when speaking to locals that the hotel owner is not highly regarded. It’s felt he does not invest enough in his properties. A year ago there was a tourist boat accident and some people died, the accident blamed the owner for failures in several areas. As it turns out, the same gent owns Chinohate and the locals fear he’s operating it on the cheap too. Between the average food, relatively high rates, and remote and under-occupied vibe, my wife was not keen. I found the staff welcoming, the food okay, and the remote surroundings attractive. It appears to be a place where hikers might stay before/after their climb, but it would seem they need to be hikers with a healthy budget.

This is a typical ’boom & bust’ hotel, like the thousands of similar hotels you see all over Japan. It’s enormous, with lobbies, restaurands an common areas the size of airport hangars, huge rooms with separate tatami areas and massive onsens. All of which is in various stage of decay. This particular hotel is set back from the harbour, up on the hillside, presumably for tsunami reasons, which means you have to drive everywhere, to the boat tours in the harbour and the really nice little seafood shacks on the waterfront. The hotel offers, like all Japanese hotels, a myriad of ’settu’ options, all very confusing: breakfast, dinner and onsen package. Ditto with unlimited sake. Lunch and onsen and a spa treatment; don’t take any of these. The food is terrible by Japanese standards, and the gigantic restaurant is more like a East German Communist Party Headquarters canteen circa 1953 than a restaurant. You know whst I mean. Our room was huge, but with peeing wallpaper, slightly smelly damp wall-to-wall carpeting and (my pet hate) one of those pre-fab plastic bathrooms which has all the solidity of a bouncy castle. Our friends stayed at the Kitanokobushi Shiretoko Hotel, and I wish we had too. This is actually built this millennium and is right on the water. I highly recommend you stay there instead. As for me, I am thoroughly fed up with these depressing, smelly 1980’s concrete monsters.

Shiretoko is not a place to visit during winter, so there are no tourists from outside Hokkaido. Therefore, the quality and service content of the inn are business hotel class in Sapporo, but the price is expensive. I was a solo trip, so I booked a 18000 yen tuil room with no dinner for one night, breakfast, and the rest ４ room in Rakuten travel. The building is clean and clean and feels good. The bath has an open air, and the quality of the spring is only hot and the scenery is almost invisible, but the starry sky is glittering. The open air (women) is displayed as a small area because it is high temperature because of the source area, so that it enters the wide area. Even if it is said that this display was not seen at night, it was usually soaked in a high temperature bath. The number of rooms is large, and the location is convenient because it is a place of about ５ minutes by car from the sightseeing pleasure boat stop and the road station.

An inn in Utoro, Shiretoko; I used the World Natural Heritage inn Shiretoko Village Tsukuda-so in July 2021. Shiretoko in 2021 was a year when it was very difficult to make reservations for inns. Many guest houses are closed due to the corona disaster, and relatively large inns and hotels are open, and even major hotels will be closed after the beginning of June. We also had to look for an inn in a hurry a month before the trip. Under such circumstances, Shiretoko Village Tsukuda-so is an inn that can be used for a relatively reasonable accommodation price, and the food is delicious (especially the boiled menme is delicious), and it has a hot spring. It is a relatively reasonable usage fee for Shiretoko with a cup of hair crab for dinner and 37400 yen / two people for two meals per night. The hot spring ”Kuma no Yu” was a reddish muddy hot water, also called a beautiful hot water, and it was a pleasant hot water with a little tromi. If there is a difficulty, it was a little difficult to sleep at night in Utoro in 2021, where there were no air conditioners in the guest rooms and the daytime temperature exceeded 30 degrees Celsius. In addition, the surrounding nature is rich, and where does it come out at night, the insects of 々 intrude into the room and make a fuss. The room has insecticides and gum tapes for insect capture, but it may be quite difficult for women ...

This was the most amazing stay of our 2-week Hokkaido trip. The design of the hotel was very nice, it is hard for a large hotel to feel homely and comfortable, but it did - walking around the lobby and dining areas was such a pleasant feeling, there is also a TV section where everyone enjoyed the documentaries on Shiretoko comfortably. The staff at the hotel were incredible, they were all very friendly and helpful, and seemed genuinely happy with their jobs - from the man at the front of the hotel welcoming us into the hotel and directing the cars to the carpark, to the front desk, and the servers and chefs at the restaurant - everyone was so friendly and nice. The breakfast and dinner buffet was amazingly good - usually I do not enjoy buffets as much, as the food is usually just average, but here, the food variety was amazing, and quality was so good! I had the freshest sashimi, very good desserts, good grilled beef and pork, ramen was amazing, and the fried food counter was so good. The rooms and onsen were comfortable and luxurious as well. The price we paid for the hotel was very well worth it! Thank you very much - we really enjoyed ourselves! Every day when we got back to the hotel after a long day out, it felt like returning home.

The first day was a huge hot spring hotel, so on the second day I wanted to buy and eat crabs, so I went here. There were a lot of low reviews (before renovation?), so I was worried until I arrived, but the facility was renovated and beautiful, and the view was great, overlooking the Utoro fishing port from the room and the open-air bath. 〇 The food at the hot spring hotel is not very delicious and I can't eat it all. Drinks are also super expensive. ⇒ I want to choose what I want to eat and drink to my heart's content. I think it's recommended for people. The shared kitchen was well equipped, and there was no inconvenience with cooking utensils and tableware. However, there are detailed instructions on how to separate garbage, etc. It seems that there are many people who do not use the kitchen.

This resort has an outdoor foot spa which is amazing in the winter! Loved the sunset view indoor onsen too. Food is fantastic and they make the most delectable croissants and other pastries. Must have. Beds and rooms and comfortable, clean and luxurious. The only complaint I have is that we accidentally went to a wrong floor of the hotel and it opened up to a nearly completely dark long walkway along an unused area of the hotel. This could be dangerous. Other than that, everything is good. The staff could be friendlier to non-Japanese speaking guests.