With a stay at Hoshino Resorts Oirase Keiryu Hotel in Towada, you'll be just steps from Oirase Stream and Towada-Hachimantai National Park. This ryokan is 2.3 mi (3.7 km) from Oirase Gorge and 9.2 mi (14.8 km) from Lake Towada.
Enjoy recreation amenities such as bicycles to rent or take in the view from a garden. Additional features at this ryokan include complimentary wireless Internet access and tour/ticket assistance.
Grab a bite to eat at one of the ryokan's many dining establishments, which include 2 restaurants and a coffee shop/cafe. Buffet breakfasts are available daily from 7 AM to 9:00 AM for a fee.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, multilingual staff, and luggage storage.
Make yourself at home in one of the 190 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and bidets. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
All arrangements for dining, transportation, and facility usage in the hotel require advance coordination with the hotel. Please contact the hotel in advance for any dining, transportation, or facility-related inquiries
"I can only say that when traveling abroad, it's always Chinese people ripping off other Chinese people! I doubt even 10% of the guests here are local Japanese. This hotel was hyped up so much on Xiaohongshu, and it's always fully booked on Trip.com. I finally managed to snag two nights last year, only to be sorely disappointed. Both Hoshino Resorts hotels I stayed at this trip were a letdown.
Firstly, the hotel's decor, apart from the lobby, just screamed simple and cheap everywhere else. Some might call it 'returning to nature,' but I personally think it doesn't justify the 5K+ a night price tag.
Secondly, the hot spring was incredibly, incredibly ordinary. In the evening, it was packed like a pot of boiling dumplings. The 'ice wall hot spring' photos circulating online? That's literally the entire outdoor section. Without filters, it's just a frozen wall you could find anywhere.
Lastly, and most outrageously, the rooms don't provide drinking water. You either drink tap water or go to a corner on the second floor (we were on the 4th, I think there's a 5th too) to get purified water. The water dispenser's flow rate was barely more than my tears. Maybe most people don't know they can get purified water, or they're too lazy to walk that far, otherwise, the queue to get water would stretch for miles.
When I told my Japanese friends that I paid 5K a night, their jaws dropped! They said they'd get at least a 30% discount if they booked it. I guess getting ripped off while traveling is the norm, and I wouldn't mind if the premium price meant a comfortable and happy stay. But paying 5K for a hotel and still having to fetch my own water was completely unexpected.
The only upsides were the breakfast by the stream (very hard to book, we only managed to get four spots for six people by booking over two months in advance) and the pleasant atmosphere of the French dinner."