Hoshino Resorts KAI Kinugawa

Private environment, average food

I like it very much. It is small, exquisite, with good service. It is an ideal place to escape from the world.

Very good hotel, worth experiencing

I have stayed in several special hotels of Hoshino before, but this is my first time staying in a hot spring hotel. Overall, I am quite satisfied. The small train is full of ritual, and the food is indeed satisfactory. The hotel is unique in Kinu River, not on the riverside. Don't have any illusions about the room, but Hanami Onsen in the cherry blossom season is amazing. It is enough to stay once. Next time I come back to Kinu River, I may consider a traditional Japanese inn.

It is recommended to take a taxi to the hotel, it is really impossible to walk. There is a small monorail cable car for check-in, which takes a few minutes and goes up the mountain for dozens of meters. The hotel is very new, with a forest view. The large bathroom does not feel like an old hot spring hotel. The only blow dryer is a Dyson. The room is 40 square meters, neat and simple, with a terrace and no bathtub. The tea bar in the lobby is simple and the hot water is warm. Breakfast and dinner are completely bad reviews! It’s not that the ingredients should be good, but at least they should be snacks. The meals at Jie Alps, which I ate before, also focused on the presentation and had design concepts. The two meals at Jie Kinugawa were too perfunctory. The miso soup was extremely salty, a few small pieces of sashimi, and three thin slices of beef for the main course. This is the worst meal I have ever eaten with an average cost of more than 2,000 per person. I used to love ordering Jie because the local fun was exciting, wine tasting and performances, but later the local fun of some stores began to fool around, such as Jie Boroto and Kinugawa’s Mashiko yaki. Later, I found hot spring hotels such as Arima Grand, Ginsuiso, Hama no Yu, and Izu Kogen Kamenoi. I found that Hoshino Kyoto did a good job in promotion, but the supplies, especially the only bottle of bulk water, were unbearable, and the meals were very mid-range, but they were sold at high-end prices. The quality of each Kyoto restaurant varies, and the Kinugawa restaurant is of medium to low quality. It is not worth spending this price to come to this remote place to see this scenery and eat this meal.

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I booked a room with an open-air hot spring and was very satisfied with the room. I also liked the indoor and courtyard views. I also checked out the large public bath, which is a bit far away and has only one pool inside and one outside. It would be more appropriate to have a room with an indoor hot spring. The meals for two consecutive nights are different, but the ingredients are relatively cheap and common, and the food is not cost-effective. Overall it's a bit expensive, but there's nothing wrong with it.

Good hot spring experience, the quality of Xingye is beyond words