Kyukamura Iwate-Amiharionsen

good and relax

Kyukamura Iwate Amihari Onsen Hotel & Ski resort - Despite being a dated site, the hotel was very well maintained and is extremely clean and bright. An example is, the hotel rooms are still opened with keys, but with a tag with QR code for check-in and check-out with digital recording. And while we thought the ski resort still used the old style hard copy lift ticket, the resort had proved we are wrong and they have already changed to IC card. - The rooms are quite spacious. - There are 5 onsens including one foot soak. 2 are inside the hotel, another 2 are away from the hotel but within walking distance and shuttle bus available (we have not gone to those two as we went skiing) - Buffet style breakfast and dinner, both were phenomenal. Quite a wide variety of food and all of very high quality. - 5mins walking distance from the ski resort. - Great hospitality provided. They even drove us to a nearby ski resort for skiing/snow boarding. - Only a few pistes in the ski resort, lifts are slow. But as mainly visited by locals, there was no crowd. Some foreigners come for snow shoeing and back/side country skiing - We concurred with a foreign website which made this place known to us that this is a nice little hidden gem.

盛岡駅から送迎1時間ほどの山の中。盛岡駅の送迎バス発着場は、西口バスロータリーなのですが、事前に駅構内を把握しておくか、時間に余裕をもっていないとあわてます。発車時間に少々遅れ、迷惑をかけてしまいました。ゴメンナサイ。 山の中でのんびり過ごすには最適です。失礼な言い方かもしれませんが、人気休暇村はスタッフさんの対応が横柄な傾向があるように感じますが、その点、ここ岩手弓張温泉は、気配りが行き届いています。