Ibusuki Onsen Hotel Syogetsu

The overall decoration of the hotel is older, the rooms are tidy, the breakfast quality is very good, the location is close to the city center, and the hot spring facilities and design are very unique. Only the refrigerator in the room made noise, which affected my sleep.

The location of the hotel is a bit remote, it takes 10 minutes to get off the bus from the bus station. The facilities and cleanliness of the hotel are acceptable, and the dinner is quite rich. The only thing is that the front desk swapped my double room with my friend's single room. I had to negotiate many times to get an extra set of towels and bathrobes, which is a point deduction. But overall this hotel is still worth recommending.

It used to be called "Coral Beach Hotel", but now it's called "Hotel Shogetsu". Is the name change due to the seawall construction in front of the hotel? This time we stayed on a JTB tour. There were 3 of us, but I thought there would be an extra bed in the twin room, but I was given a large room with a western style room with a twin bed in the corner room and a Japanese style room. It was very comfortable because it was more than twice the size of a normal twin room. Kagoshima Bay spreads over the entire balcony from the room, but I was a little worried that the shore in front of me was under construction. In the early morning, the beautiful scenery of dawn spreads out, so if the weather is good, I think it is essential to get up early. Ibusuki Onsen is famous for sand baths, but this hotel does not have such facilities, so we took a shuttle bus from the hotel that leaves every 20 minutes to a nearby municipal sand bath called Saraku. This is also an interesting experience. Dinner is at the hotel banquet hall with the same tour, but the tables are separated by groups and the distance between the tables is so far that you can't talk to them. The food was delicious and the amount was sufficient, but you can also order additional items such as binago tempura, sashimi, and bonito tataki. All of them are delicious and I am thankful that I can enjoy the local taste for about 800 yen. I was able to enjoy Kagoshima because Ibusuki shochu was also placed. Breakfast was at the same venue, but the landlady came to greet me and I thought it was a polite hotel. The hot spring at the hotel was a sodium spring, and the large public bath was large and comfortable. It's a small hotel, so it's good that it's not crowded.