Hotels Near Dogen Waterfall in Minakami

Magnificent Onsen. Everything is in place for you to have a great vacation. We were picked up as soon as we arrived at JOMO-KOGEN station. Excellent dinner and breakfast. Clean and spacious room with the possibility of wearing a kimono. Special mention for MR HIROSCHI, who explained to us how to get to the HODAIGI ski resort and organized our stay. The hot bath site is exceptional and relaxing. Too bad there is a strict ban on taking photos. With common sense and good manners, privacy and respect for other users would not be impacted. Just don't make them appear in the photo.

The hotel is not far from the station, about a five-minute drive away. Near the hotel is Tianyi Art Museum whose owner is an artist of traditional Shakuhachi musical instruments. The decoration and details of the hotel are very artistic. Inadvertently found a hotel with a local traditional culture atmosphere. You need to make an appointment if you have a private soup, and you can see the outdoor scenery. Public soups for men and women are separated and served 24 hours a day. The breakfast is delicious and authentic with local specialties. The dinner will provide musical instrument performance and experience. Interesting.

I stayed here in April 2022 on the occasion of the expansion of Kenminwari. As the name of the inn suggests, the sound of the murmuring of the river never ceases. The hot springs are colorless and transparent, glittering and slippery. It is said that there are plenty of hot spring sources, and the spouts of all baths are drinkable. There is a large communal bath for men and women in the main building and a separate mixed bathing open-air bath, which is not connected to the bath in the main building. The hot water is completely transparent, so the hurdle for mixed bathing is high. However, there are separate dressing rooms for men and women, and bath clothes are available at the shop. Dinner is a kaiseki meal with lean beef steak grilled on a stone slab as the main dish. Mr. Nakai is a foreigner, but he does his best to explain the dishes. I bow my head like a hard worker in a foreign land. Inari sushi is prepared in the room for a late-night snack, but this is a grown-up taste mixed with wasabi stems. For breakfast, if you go at the exact time of your reservation, the dashimaki* will still be warm. There was a great attention to detail. There are many cherry blossoms planted in the garden of this inn, but this time it was a really elegant timing when the cherry blossoms in full bloom were blown by the wind and turned into a cherry blossom storm.

This hot spring resort is a beautiful facility located on large, gorgeous grounds, less than two hours from Tokyo station. The Tanigawa mountain range mid-November offered a wonderful backdrop to our suite of three rooms including our private outdoor bath. We spent two days walking the grounds, enjoying the wonderful cuisine, taking numerous dips in our bath as well as experiencing dips in the the two larger communal baths. The service was impeccable, the refrigerator refilled regularly, and late night snacks delivered to our room both evenings. The facility is large but there are only about 16 suites so it feels very quiet and tranquil. Whether you are visiting Japan for the first time or are a frequent visitor to onsen resorts, you should consider staying at Bettei Senjuan. We think it is special.

Good point. The cherry blossom bath is very large and beautiful. There is also a sauna and you can enjoy the outside air bath. The rice is delicious for the cherry blossom buffet. We use many local ingredients and can enjoy it only in the building. There are sofas, firewood fireplaces and water in the lobby of the cherry blossoms, and it is very good for meeting after bathing. The heating is good overall in the cherry blossom building, and it is difficult to cool the water. There were many foreign employees, but everyone was kind and polite. Not good. The water around the cherry blossom room was tired. The meeting space of the place where the public bath was left is cold. It was my first time on the water, but I think it is a very cospa good and wonderful inn considering the price around.

Ultra modern hotel. Each room has beautiful river and mountain views. Very clean everywhere. Private hot spring bath on balcony is wonderful. Dinner and breakfast were fantastic. Staff was very friendly and helpful. Maybe the best standard sized room of any hotel I've visited. We have visited a number of onsen hotels around Japan and this one was our favorite; both for the room and the meals. The problem here is that the beautiful small shops on the quaint street are almost all closed; and not for the season. I know business will pick up in the winter when skiers from nearby Tokyo come here but it is too bad that the shops have failed. Something needs to be done to bring more traffic and create things to do outside the hotel. The river in September is low so no rafting or kayaking. If you like to hike there are many trails in the surrounding areas.

It can be said that it is a very satisfying hotel experience. You can give 151 points out of 150 points. First of all, talk about transportation. When I took the railroad to reach Minakami, I went to Japan to buy a traffic card, and I could n’t contact the hotel. So I went to the sightseeing case opposite the station and asked where to call. The staff inside helped me directly to the hotel for them to pick up. Then inside the hotel, I ordered the room with an open-air bathtub. The space for living alone is very large. I can go to the hot spring whenever I want. Dinner and breakfast are included in the accommodation fee, it can be said that the price is very high. And dinner and breakfast are very rich, guaranteed to be three pounds out. If it is the hot spring in the collective bathroom, it is recommended to go after dinner, because the room is just next to the collective bathroom, so I heard it very clearly. Everyone concentrated on going in the afternoon. Basically, it was a private booking at 9-10pm. But of course there are criticisms and derogations, that is, the sound insulation is a bit inadequate. Of course, the speech in the next room cannot be regarded as the hotel's fault. But overall I am very satisfied with this stay. Highly recommended to go to this small town to experience slow life.

There was a coffee service (tea, cold water) in the lobby, and I used it three times while sitting on a comfortable sofa. The room was 8 tatami mats, long and not large, but comfortable. Two keys and two yukatas. There is no open-air bath in the bath. The inner hot water was not a net door or a wind, so this hot time was steamy and hot. On the way, the cooler cooled his head at the dressing room where the cooler was scrambled. Other guests also said hohoho. I thought it would be good to pass the wind with a net door or a ventilation fan only in summer. The next morning, the hot water was good because there was an open-air bath. Dinner was a large venue meal. This time it was not roast, so I was able to eat slowly. The brewery was made of kawafugu (catfish), cherry blossoms, silver light (high-class nijimas that can only be tasted in Gunma), and cherry blossom rice was made of cherry blossoms, and the local chicken, pig, and cow were made of sukiyaki of the rice, and it was unique and delicious. I usually eat rice as I pass, but it is great that it is just a amount in my stomach even though the number of items is large. Also, the cold sake of sake of sake (300 CC 1200 yen) was delicious and perfect for cooking. The breakfast was also satisfactory at the same venue. The staff at the restaurant is also very good customer service.

Both dinner and breakfast were buffet style, so it was very good that children could choose what they liked. It was good that all the foods were easy to eat for vegetarians. Above all, the dishes were very delicious and I told my family that I wanted to go again. The hot springs were very comfortable and the children were happy. It was also attractive to be able to take a bath for 24 hours. I definitely want to go again.

I used to stay in the main building, but this time the cheap main building is not available, so I stayed in the annex. Is the main building enough considering the cost performance with an emphasis on hot springs? In the annex, it will be a room meal, but there are many aspects that it is easier to eat at a restaurant where you can order early ... The essential hot springs are Longevity Hoshi no Yu, and there is no complaint at the foot of Hoshi no Yu! The two places in the back of Hoshi no Yu, which have no hanging water from the top, are a little warm in winter, but I think you should choose the place as you like because you can soak it for a long time. The Tamaki no Yu, which was disappointed when I visited last time, did not enter this time. (Because the chlorine odor is strong in the circulation, the impression of other hot water is halved.) There are some hot comments about mixed bathing, but many men feel uncomfortable when women come in. (Because the current situation is that it is virtually a male bath under the name of mixed bathing) Hoshi-no-Yu, which has four bathtubs, also enters by looking at other customers, temperature, and places where it is springing out, so it is a woman's changing room. I have to turn my face toward the direction I think there are tough things, but my wife has been lamenting since last time because there is only women-only time from 20:00 to 22:00 here. The atmosphere of the room and the goodness of the hot water are urinary, and it will be a high accommodation fee there alone, but it is true that the food is a little disappointing considering the accommodation fee of more than 20,000 yen. (I think it's a little unsatisfactory for young people who don't drink alcohol and just eat.) Personally, since we emphasize hot springs, there are some downsides, but it will still be a perfect score.