| One of the cheaper more rustic accommodations in | | | | Ogiya Hotel also gives its guest a unique dinning |
| Naruko has to be the Ogiya hotel. When we first | | | | experience providing an in room dinner instead of |
| arrived it looked rather aged, but upon entry we | | | | offering a restaurant in their hotel. I had got use to |
| were surprised to see how nice it was inside. The | | | | the all you can eat dinners most of the hotels I been |
| lobby had a very relaxing feeling and we all felt at | | | | to in Japan and was a little disappointed to hear the |
| home right away. | | | | Ogiya hotel did not have a smorgasbord dinner, until |
| Our Japanese style room was rather refreshing | | | | at 6:15 the staff brought in an unbelievable dinner set |
| featuring a 10 tamtami room with a private | | | | that put my mind at ease. |
| bathroom, a safe, small T.V and fridge. The room | | | | The dinner was well above what I had expected |
| also had a surprisingly good view of the river and | | | | with a variety of different dishes including seafood, |
| surrounding mountain ranges. | | | | rice, soup, beef tongue, pork and some of Naruko's |
| As for any hotel in Naruko, the Ogiya hotel offered | | | | famous mountain vegetable dishes, it was definitely |
| two different choices of natural volcanic hot springs. | | | | enough food to make anybody want to take a nap. |
| The second floor held both a men's and women's | | | | The in room meal sets a different mood and gives |
| only indoor bath, The bathing room was quite small | | | | families the chance to relax and enjoy their meal in |
| holding one bathing pool with medium and also had a | | | | the comfort of their own room; it was also great not |
| large window with a descent view. The second | | | | to have to worry about what my two kids were |
| option, which I thought was quite cool, was the two | | | | doing. |
| outdoor baths on the fourth floor. This was the first | | | | Breakfast |
| time I had seen a hot spring hotel offer private | | | | The continental breakfast was served on the first |
| bathing rooms for families. The outdoor baths had a | | | | floor in their dining room featuring a classic Japanese |
| quite rustic look and featured one largest wooden | | | | breakfast of rice, miso soup, fish, hot spring boil eggs |
| bathing pool in each room. | | | | and other small traditional Japanese dishes. |