Akazawa Onsen Hotel

If you come to Izu, I highly recommend staying at this hot spring ♨️ hotel! 📍Location: Right on the Akasawa Coast, all rooms face the sea🌊 (view from the balcony of rooms 1 and 2 in pictures) 🚄Transportation: Exit Tokaido JR Izu-Kogen Station, go out from the south gate to the B1 parking lot, there is a dedicated bus pick-up point (see the last picture, including pick-up timetable) ♨️Hot ​​spring: If the weather is good, all the hot springs in the hotel have beautiful views! See hotel photos. There is an open-air hot spring with a sea view on the third floor of the main building, which is open the longest (5am-11am/1pm-1am), and there is a karaoke next to it. There is a rooftop sea-view open-air hot spring on the 7th floor of the main building (free for guests from 6am to 10am), which is relatively small; There is a panoramic open-air hot spring (10am-10pm) in the South Building (Hikari Hot Spring), which is relatively large and is open to non-residents and is free to residents. There is an indoor link passage on the lobby floor of the main building. ⚠️The men’s and women’s baths will be exchanged~ There will be some differences~ 👘Service: The girl at the front desk speaks very good English (including the little brother who receives other guests next to her). The hotel provides yukata of different colors and sizes, covering all ages, so considerate! (Pictures 3, 4, 5, 6) The rooms are all M. If you need other sizes, you will be asked to choose them when you check in at the front desk. 🍣Meals: There are restaurants on the 3rd floor of the main building, lobby, and the 1st floor of the south building. Breakfast for hotel guests is at Restaurant Kira on the lobby floor. It is a buffet-style Japanese breakfast. I personally like it very much, but there are fewer choices for my husband and children. (Figure 7, 8, 9) Dinner was at Restaurant Sara on the 3rd floor and Kira on the lobby floor. It was a Japanese set meal. It tasted good and was filling (Pictures 10 and 11). If not, you can order something to eat at the South Building restaurant, or find a restaurant on the way out of the hotel. 🧹Hygiene: It's pretty clean, but the hotel is a bit old and the facilities are old, but it doesn't affect the experience. 💰Value for money: I personally think it's good. I have 2 adults and 1 child, 2 berths for 3 days, including breakfast and dinner, more than 2,000 per night, covering three sea-facing hot springs. ⚠️If you book with Ctrip, the fee for children over 4 years old needs to be paid separately when arriving at the store, including their meals and hot springs. 🛜Room facilities The hotel has Wi-Fi but it's a bit laggy; the room is 39 square meters, which is quite large in Japan (Figure 10). The sound insulation effect is average. They also have villas with private baths🏡 🌋Surrounding tours: "Your Name" prototype Omuroyama, Cactus Zoo, Kinosaki Coast, Gulampalu Park, etc.. Overall it’s highly recommended!

All the rooms in the hotel are facing the sea. The Japanese-style rooms are very spacious and you need to make your own bed. You can take a bath in the main building or in the south building. The latter has a larger hot spring pool with better scenery. There is an internal passage in the lobby that you can walk through, but it is unfortunately not open in the morning. The breakfast is a Japanese buffet with a rich variety. The dinner set is very ordinary in terms of ingredients and taste. The hotel has a free shuttle bus to and from Izu Plateau, which does not require reservations and is very convenient.

The price-performance ratio is super high. You must make an appoin**ent for the open-air bath, which is much more worthwhile than the fake hot springs in Beijing. The breakfast buffet has all-you-can-eat sashimi. I will come again if I have the chance!

Facilities: The bathing facilities are very good. The spa in another building requires payment. The experience is good. The room is spacious but it looks a bit old. Health: good Environment: Nice, you can see Sagami Bay Service: good, food is average

The Japanese-style sea view room I booked is located in the bay and has a nice view. There is also a shuttle bus from the hotel to Izu Plateau, which is very convenient. It is a bit expensive to book one night with two meals on the weekend. If you come on weekdays, the cost performance will be very high!

The front desk staff told me that it is their policy not to lay out futons (they spoke as if it was natural not to back down). It's not so bad for young people, but it's quite inconvenient for the elderly and those with children, especially in terms of physical strength! If they don't have that ability, wouldn't it be better to cancel Japanese-style rooms in the first place? If they can't value the Japanese culture of laying out futons in Japanese-style rooms because they can't keep up with the manpower, then they shouldn't touch them! It only leaves an impression that Japanese people are cold. And the way they answered, "It's the hotel's policy," was also quite tasteless. I can't imagine a service industry that emphasizes a policy in front of a customer, and they're not complainers in the first place! By the way, I remember that they still laid out futons when I came during the COVID period. Is it because they have more time because of COVID? I also thought it was unreasonable that the days for men and women were different for each floor. The 4th floor, which has the best view, was not available on the day I went, so I was disappointed. The economy has recovered somewhat, but I hope they don't forget the empty scene from that time! I sincerely hope that they will continue to improve their service.

We stayed in a suite for 2 nights with breakfast and dinner included. There are about 3 shuttle buses to and from Izukogen Station every hour, making it convenient to access from the station. The driver was also very chatty and enthusiastic, and he told us about various sightseeing spots. The room was very spacious and equipped with DHC amenities, so I was able to enjoy a luxurious trip while looking out at the Izu sea (shampoo and body soap are not provided in the room, but you can borrow them for free at the front desk) ). Welcome snacks were provided every day, and the chestnut buns and dried filefish were delicious. I am glad that the shower and bathtub are separate and comfortable, but there is a bit of mold in the corner of the bathroom, and I think that proper measures should be taken. For dinner, a wide variety of dishes are served using local ingredients, from hot pot dishes to fried dishes, and it goes without saying that the dishes are delicious and beautifully presented. I stayed for two consecutive nights, and I was impressed by the thoughtfulness with which they prepared a different menu each day. I feel that there is room for improvement in the taste of the breakfast, and I was concerned that one young male employee was not very polite and did not use honorific language during busy times. Since the hotel is attached to Akazawa Onsenkyo, you can also use the day trip hot spring facility for free during your stay. The hot springs in the hotel building had cascading baths, herbal baths, and open-air baths, so it was fun, but the day-trip hot springs were full of men with tattoos making a lot of noise, which was a bit creepy! ! There was no hair dryer at the hot spring facility, so I returned to my room with damp hair. To summarize, I was satisfied with the hotel as a whole, but there were some areas that were not well-maintained. I don't plan on visiting you again.