Ogiya Hotel in Naruko, Japan

One of the cheaper more rustic accommodations inOgiya Hotel also gives its guest a unique dinning
Naruko has to be the Ogiya hotel. When we firstexperience providing an in room dinner instead of
arrived it looked rather aged, but upon entry weoffering a restaurant in their hotel. I had got use to
were surprised to see how nice it was inside. Thethe all you can eat dinners most of the hotels I been
lobby had a very relaxing feeling and we all felt atto 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 refreshingat 6:15 the staff brought in an unbelievable dinner set
featuring a 10 tamtami room with a privatethat put my mind at ease.
bathroom, a safe, small T.V and fridge. The roomThe dinner was well above what I had expected
also had a surprisingly good view of the river andwith 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 offeredfamous 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'sThe in room meal sets a different mood and gives
only indoor bath, The bathing room was quite smallfamilies the chance to relax and enjoy their meal in
holding one bathing pool with medium and also had athe comfort of their own room; it was also great not
large window with a descent view. The secondto have to worry about what my two kids were
option, which I thought was quite cool, was the twodoing.
outdoor baths on the fourth floor. This was the firstBreakfast
time I had seen a hot spring hotel offer privateThe continental breakfast was served on the first
bathing rooms for families. The outdoor baths had afloor in their dining room featuring a classic Japanese
quite rustic look and featured one largest woodenbreakfast of rice, miso soup, fish, hot spring boil eggs
bathing pool in each room.and other small traditional Japanese dishes.