Hida Hanasatonoyu Takayama Ouan

Very tidy and traditional hotel in a great location, not far a walk from local Eateries and Old town. The hotel has car parking 3 private onsens and 2 public gender separate onsens. We didn’t get to enjoy the restaurant but when we visited they had free late night ramen from 9pm - 10 pm. Thanks to the lovely staff who assisted us at our 5am checkout.

My favourite hotel on our trip - great view from my room with windows that open. The Onsen is fabulous, out door and indoor with a cold plunge bath. The private have 30min time limits but the public you stay as long as you want! The breakfast was great as well. Hotel was close to everything really couldn’t fault it!!

I cannot even remember how many times I've stayed at this hotel, should be 5 or 6 times? However, this time I guess is the last one. I was pissed off by the automatic checkin machine. I have used other automatic checkin machines for checkin in other hotels in Japan, but this one is the most absurb one. When I use my passport to search booking, it says booking not found. Then use my fullname to search, found my booking, but then it didn't prompt for my passport copy because I used a japanese hotel booking website to book, so the system thought I am a local Japanese! I had to re-do the whole checkin process, and if the checkin was done at counter this definitely won't be a problem and save my time! And when I enter the public japanese bath, I found a female caucasian dressed in bikini already soaked in the onsen. I then politely tell her the norms to use japanese onsen that one should fully clean their body prior to entering the bath, and cannot wear any towels nor swimsuit. She thanked me and says she really didn't know as it is the first time she visit japan. I cannot stop thinking back that when there was no automatic checkin machines, when we checkin the hotel staff will either tell us or give us a brochure for guidelines to enjoy japanese bath. I stayed at 天然温泉 錦鯱の湯 ドー ミーイン a few days afterwards. Glad that this hotel didn't pushed us to use that stupid automatic checkin machines, and the checkin process was much faster and smooth!