When staying here, it is very important to consider what you are looking for. According to the official website, ”Sanyo-so Main Building was built in 1929 as a villa for Hisaya, the eldest son of Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of the former Mitsubishi zaibatsu, in a magnificent Japanese garden designed by Jihei Ogawa, a gardener from Kyoto. It is a stylish Japanese-style building with a sukiya-style architecture.” If you want to stay in this historic building, this is the place for you. If you are simply looking for a high-class Japanese-style inn, please do your research. The wide entrance and the beautiful garden are the highlights of the impression. This time, the room was a ”New Building Standard Japanese Room,” but other reviews say that it was actually built in 1988. ”New Building?” Well, compared to the main building... but there are a lot of questions. In places, the ”distress” is more of a concern than the ”oldness.” The sliding door separating the living room from the next room is so poorly fitted that you wonder if it's even fastened, there are stains on the wall, the keyhole to the door to the room is too low, there is no drip coffee or cups, let alone a coffee maker, the hot spring in the bath attached to the room is wonderful, but the bucket and chair are black with mold. When I opened the lid of the electric kettle to boil water, there was a stain like tea stains. It certainly looks old, but it's a shame that no one checks it. The windows are wiped clean, and the style of taking off your shoes at the entrance and walking around the building in socks (barefoot) is clean and comfortable, but I think that even proper cleaning cannot keep up with the wear and tear and oldness of the equipment. The faucet in the bathroom is lowered in the style before the earthquake, and everything may have something in common with the attitude of this inn. If you think that the difficulty of maintaining an old building and that there is value in that, then you should definitely stay here, but if you are looking for a typical high-class inn, you will be disappointed in many ways. Nakai-san and the foreign staff are very hard-working, but it is far from first-class, so it depends on what you are looking for. That said, perhaps in response to our request for fewer electrical outlets, there was a four-outlet tap, and enough face and bath towels were provided so that we could take a bath in the room many times. It was a thoughtful touch, but even if it wasn't a complete renovation, it would be better to get a new electric kettle, a bathtub and chair, and do something about the chipped concrete in the bathroom and the black mold on the window frame. I stayed there with a very reasonable plan just before. It was good value for money. It may sound harsh, but I would not stay at the regular price. I think that small things can make a big difference, but it was a shame in many ways.
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