Hotels With Pools in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

I was very satisfied with my stay at this hotel. The staff, from reception to service, were warm and friendly. The hotel's environment is excellent, right by the lake with beautiful scenery. The breakfast selection was rich, offering both Western and local dishes, and everything tasted delicious.

The room view is wonderful and quiet. Free shuttle bus between Ogotoonsen and hotel, it takes abt 5’min ride time, very good. The hotel restaurant staff are friendly and polite. We stayed 3n and the food menu were changed daily, very impressive. The indoor and outdoor onsen are perfect and relaxing. I will recommend others go there, very good experience.

A beautiful hotel with a stunning view of Lake Biwa. The Shuttle bus to and from Katata station made it convenient, as long as you time your transport well, and the staff were very friendly and professional. We recommend staying here for a more peaceful and luxurious experience in Kyoto outside of the city, and it would also be good to visit shirahige shrine and cycle around Lake Biwa!

The hotel is located in a very special place. It is in the village, right by Lake Biwa. There are dinner and breakfast. The dinner is the famous local Sukiyaki pot, and the breakfast is traditional food. The hotel is very clean, but the facilities are old. There is a public bathroom and outdoor hot spring where you can look up at the stars. We are the only family living on the whole floor. Due to the location, there are very few people. The toilet is outside the house, which is a bit inconvenient. The service is very Japanese, warm and polite.

First time staying at this hotel! It's not super close to the JR station, but they do have a shuttle bus. It's about a 15-minute walk otherwise. The hotel itself is very large and impressive, and the front desk staff were incredibly warm and professional. The room was spacious with a beautiful view, all facing the lake. It was also very clean and the facilities felt relatively new. The large public bath on the fourth floor was very convenient to use, well-equipped, and also offered a nice view. Breakfast was abundant, with both Japanese and Western options, and the service staff were very friendly. All in all, if I visit Lake Biwa again, I'll definitely stay here!

Check in was not smooth simply because the male receptionist did not bother to explain to us that the room we've booked is actually classified as cottage & was separate from main building & need to drive there, even though he saw us with our many luggages offloaded from our car & pushed to reception area. By the time I figured out with the help of another female receptionist the actual location of our room, my husband has already followed the male receptionist's map instruction to look for numbered car park slot to park our car & then walked all the way back to the reception area to meet me. There is no buggy or any form of transport or concierge to assist us. In the end, we borrowed a trolley & wheeled all our luggages on road to our room. The toilet bowl smells bad & despite washing the floor & spraying anti odour, the smell persisted. There is no free wifi. However, overall, we are satisfied with our stay as the big room size (5 single beds) with many aircon units & the dedicated car park slot just right outside our room made it convenient for us to load our luggage when we check out. Overall, if you need a big room & dedicated parking slot, this is still good hotel to stay, since most hotel room in Japan is really small. The other reason we chose this hotel is the location near the sea where we were hoping to catch the sunset but we didn't managed to due to rain & super cloudy sky : (