Shikotsuko Daiichi Hotel Suizantei

Very nice hot spring hotel... facilities maintenance is acceptable. The biggest advantage is that it is located by Zhiquren Lake...

High-end hot spring hotel, next to Zhiqian Lake. The room is a bit old. The hot spring water temperature in the room is slightly low. The food is up to standard.

Avoid it, because it was already past nine in the evening when we arrived at the hotel. I stayed in a room with a private bath in Japan before. The private bath must be hot and you can take a bath in the room. But when I checked in, the water in the private bath was ice cold. However, the staff was very nice and apologized to us at the time. They immediately started to heat the water. I also asked if the water was clean. He said it was clean. As a result, I went in to take a bath and felt that the bottom was full of sand. I felt that the water was not clean, so I hurried out after a short bath. The next morning, I drained all the water, and it turned out to be full of sand. It was very dirty and disgusting. The window of our room was the parking lot, with no view. Compared with the Japanese hot spring hotels I stayed in before, the breakfast was also very ordinary, see Figure 4, and the attitude of the breakfast staff was very bad. They arranged two seats for us at the entrance. We went to eat breakfast very early. There were only two or three tables of people inside. Seeing that there were many seats, we wanted to change to a window seat a little inside. The person pointed at the seat at the door that was originally arranged and said, please sit here... Anyway, avoid it.

It's a very high-end hotel, very close to Lake Shikotsu, but you can't see the lake directly from the room because it's blocked by cherry blossom trees, so it may be difficult to book a room during the cherry blossom season. The public bathhouse has hot and cold pools, and there are popsicles to eat after bathing in the hot springs. They are all free. I booked a room with two meals. Dinner and breakfast were very traditional Japanese meals. The portions were not large and the taste was a bit unfamiliar. There is a public lounge on the second floor, where you can make tea and sit by the window to watch the scenery. The environment is quiet and it is very pleasant to walk to the lake. I happened to encounter three wild deer passing by, which shows that it is a very natural place. In the summer, you can take part in lake tours and canoeing. I also saw people doing bird watching activities, and you may have to make a reservation in advance to participate.