Though this onsen hotel has been around for several decades, its rooms and other facilities have been refurbished in western style.

As it’s at 1000m along the slope of Mt Myoko, sea of clouds can be seen in the morning on clear days from hotel rooms, decks and restaurants etc.

Apart from traditional Japanese courses, it has a French restaurant serving French dinner courses and western-style breakfast.  We selected the latter and both meals were sumptuous and delicious.

Sea of clouds

Having been in continuous rainy days in this trip so far, we were lucky to have a sunny day and sea of clouds early in the morning, seen from room and public deck.