At the hotel right now. The lake was fine on a good day, but lacks adventurous activities. A guided speedboat is the best way the see it.


The service at the hotel really isn’t all right. The local employees were cold and aloof, like they were doing us a favor by letting us stay here, spoke no English and didn’t try.



Foreign staff were amateur and ignored/misunderstood many of my requests. For example, saying that there were no canoe rentals on the lake which turned out there was and being overly intrusive at dinner. Stayed at about 10+ just this year and the service here was the worst.



Food, on the other hand, was supurb. Very generous too with all kinds of alcohol free at dinner and later at the lobby lounge.



Onsen facilities were excellent with a unique stone sauna where you put on a towel dress and lay on the stone on another towel.



The town was only one main street long, everything except souvenior shops was closed during our time and restaurants all seemed like cafeterias. We never had lunch.



Rooms, albeit standard was spacious and very well-maintained and designed. Had very nice stereo tower speakers connected to a CD player, with jazz CDs beside it.



Three nights, which I booked is too lengthy even for the lake. There’s only a short path to walk along the lake and a small forest. Not to mention we arrived from Sapporo on a propeller powered plane which was probably the scariest flight of my life, coming from an avgeek.