"It's about a 5-minute walk from the bus stop, and there are four breakfast options to choose from. It's about a 30-minute walk from Shimabara Castle."

"Not a bad hotel but there are a lot of day use onsen goers. Dinner was nice but breakfast was a lil disappointing. Free parking available which was great too."

"A very friendly and welcoming hot spring hotel! Full of old-fashioned charm, the large public baths are also very comfortable, and it's very close to Shimabara Port!"

"It was close to Shimabara Station, so the location and cost-effectiveness were perfect when traveling!! I was surprised when the bed room suddenly changed to a Japanese-style room, but when I went in, I found that it was a wonderful tatami room where I could fully enjoy Japan! The room was spacious for a Japanese hotel, had a bathtub, and the veranda was like a Japanese terrace, so it was nice to sit by the window and have a cup of tea."

"The hotel's location is not bad since it's only a 7 min walk from the train station. The room has all the basic items but it's kind of small for opening my suitcase on the floor. The one thing that really bothered me was the smell of mold in the room. I tried adjusting the temperature of the AC but that didn't help. I turned on what I believed to be an air purifier whenever I was in the room but that didn't help either. On the last night I switched the AC mode to Dry and it helped with the moldy smell, but since it got too cold, I had to change it back to normal AC mode. I didn't tell the staff since it was most likely due to the age of the hotel and probably nothing much could have been done."

"The location is excellent, just 3 minutes from Shimabara Station, and there's a small, very relaxing hot spring! However, you'll need to walk about 5 minutes to check in at another hotel."

"This was the highlight of our Japan Trip, especially for my kids aged 5, 7 and 9. The facilities: a ball pit with slides, basketball hoops, flying fox and TV right in the lobby, with free massage chairs right outside for supervising parents. A free-flow drink corner with soft drinks and alcohol and caffeinated drinks, ice cream from a certain timing, also in the lobby, also free. A gaming corner with Switch games, Mario Kart, table tennis, darts. At night they pull out the shooting gallery and the retro arcade games. They have 3 Lovot robots at the lobby. Outdoors there are remote control cars, see-saws, mini-golf, sleds with slopes, trampolines, a live goat and rabbits with buckets of feed, and a few small pools (we went in winter so didn't get to enjoy it). In the room we had a Switch, Youtube and Netflix on screen, and in our specific room we had a tent set up outdoors (but sheltered) with air-conditioning + heater and beds and TV for a "camping" feel. At breakfast and dinner time, the restaurant had multiple TVs switched on with kid-friendly content (Disney, cartoons) and even had rental iPads to entertain your kids if you so wished. There was also always a drink bar and ice cream/dessert buffet alongside the usual kaiseki dinner meal. For our second night we got the BBQ set instead of the kaiseki meal and there was SO much great meat. Objectively, I'm not sure I would have enjoyed this hotel as much if I didn't have demanding young kids who need entertainment, but as a parent the hotel is well-kempt, clean, not very run-down (it's not a new hotel but they definitely maintain it well and constantly do upgrades), the food quality was decent (not amazing but nothing to complain about), and the staff are very helpful. The onsen public bath had a shampoo and conditioner "bar" for you to pick and choose and a great seaview. Shimabara doesn't seem to have a lot of foreign tourists so if you want to get away from the usual sights it's a great place - Shimabara itself is quite small and walkable and has nice sights (the castle and the town of koi are recommended!) so you can stay two nights like us and spend one of the days wandering around Shimabara itself, and the rest of the time playing at the hotel. The hotel also had school groups come to stay there sometimes, but they have a marvellous setup where the school groups are half-cordoned off at their own floor with their own eating area, so even though we overlapped with a middle school group we barely saw them, which was a relief. All in all I would recommend staying here (in fact, I would recommend going out of your way to come stay here) for one or two nights if you are already going to be in Kyushu, if you have young kids. It will be the highlight of their trip!"