La Vista Akangawa

Wonderful stay! The staff were warm and friendly from check-in to check-out. A special thank you to Mr. Su, the Chinese receptionist, who enthusiastically helped me with the check-in process and arranged an amazing room for me. The river view from the room is breathtaking, with beautiful maple trees standing along the riverbank. This place is definitely worth a special trip just to stay the night, and it's a hotel I would love to visit again.

This was my first time staying at La Vista, and I initially thought it would just be a Dormy Inn with a private onsen, but I was so pleasantly surprised! The room was quite spacious and had a private bath where you could pre-fill the water, and it would automatically stop when full. There's also a public outdoor bath with even better views, but you can't use shampoo or shower gel there as the water flows directly into the stream. Since it wasn't convenient to go out, I booked the dinner and breakfast package. The kaiseki meal was exquisitely presented and photogenic, and the taste was good, though the ingredients were just average. The most delightful moment was sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the evening, watching a family of deer come to drink water and graze!