Hotel Toba Kowakien

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• Richard B

  10 julio 2013
  Very Nice Hotel When In Toba City

  This hotel is very nice whether you use Japanese or American standards. My wife and I stayed in Room 204 from Sunday July 7 with a check out the next day. Check in time is 3 PM. Check out is Noon. The room is very nice. It is sectioned off with a seperate tatami room for dining and sleeping with a traditional two twin-bed sleeping area in a sunken area of the room. The room is nicely appointed with a flat screen TV, refrigerator and air purifying machine. Each room has a private outdoor balcony, but note, there are no chairs on the balcany. Standing room only. The view is spectacular. The hotel ammenities include an outdoor pool with a seperate hot tub. Please note, the pool and hot tub close at 6 PM. There is a small "planetarium" next to the pool that opens at 7 PM. Hotel guests may go and take a peek through the telescope at the visible stars. It left me less than impressed. I would have preferred the pool area to stay open during the evening/night hours in the summer, given the heat index in the day. The outdoor pool area also has a breathtaking view of the ocean and islands down below as the hotel sits on top of a mountain. Note: Each room has 4 large bath towels, however, if you need additional towels, the person at the front desk told me there is a 300 yen charge per extra towel. The dining facility on the 4th floor is magnificent. Our dinner had several courses of Japanese cuisine and the dining room has the same spectacular view of the ocean. The hosts and waiters were very accomodating. Breakfast was in the form of an all you can eat buffet. It was a mixture of Japanese and American breakfast foods and was very good. The hotel has a natural spring onsen on site. It is open until 10 PM. I was in the onsen until about 10:30 PM, but no one made me leave and the cleaning person apparently went to the other side and cleaned up and allowed me to stay longer. This was evident because my shoes were removed from the shoe locker and placed on the floor for when I departed. This is a pricey hotel. I runs between $200-$200 US Dollars per night. There is a complimentary shuttle that will pick you up at the JR Station and take you into town. Be sure to take the tour of Mikimoto Pearl Island while in Toba City. I highly recommend this property and would stay again.

  

• PS588

  24 diciembre 2013
  Good value

  We stayed at this hotel on our way back from south Japan to Tokyo. We had a room with private onset ion the balcony with a great view to the sea. The food was very good and served with the expected Japanese hospitality . In Toba there is basically only Mikimoto Pearl Island. A good spot to learn about pearls, Toba village is quiet old and is not for foreign tourists. The Island itself is very nice and best explored by car. You should not miss a boat trip. Its really nice to explore the sea surrounded by the many small islands. One remark to the Hotel: nobody really speaks engish or any other language beside Japanese. If you don't speak, you may have a problem - on the other side it gives you some adventure ;-) we really enjoyed the stay. There is also a free hotel bus from and to Toba railway station.

  

• aichii

  12 junio 2015
  A remnant of a grand past

  This hotel offers a free shuttle service from/to Toba station at certain times of the day. Check in starts at 3pm and this seems to be strictly observed so there is no flexibility on the hotels part regarding early checkin! As you approach this hotel the facade is very grand from the outside this soon fades away once inside...this hotel was maybe a very popular option in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The room was large with quite a nice view down to the sea in the distance but was obviously a smoking room as there was a lingering smell of smoke and this remained despite the use of an extractor and room spray. The evening meal at the French restaurant was good but there was no atmosphere and the breakfast buffet was nothing special at all. The hot spring baths were relaxing with one large indoor and one smaller outdoor pool but overall this hotel has seen better days. Apparently there are re furbished rooms with private hot spring baths on the balcony. This might be the way to go if staying here. The hotel is in a very isolated location and there are no shops or convenience stores nearby so make sure you stock up on the essentials before leaving from Toba station.

  

• CLau888

  19 diciembre 2017
  Western style onsen resort

  There are quite many good onsen hotels in Toba area, and many things to do too. Altia is on top of a hill overlooking a beautiful bay area. It is more a western style hotel, with most rooms have beds instead of tatami. When I arrived at the hotel by car, a member of he staff was already standing at the front door, helping guests with their luggage. The hotel has a long and narrow layout, so that almost all guests rooms have sea view. My room had a twin bed and a raised Japanese living room area, and a balcony. The room is not very big but spacious enough. Room temperature is controllable, other amenities include kettle, humidifier, etc. The swimming pool opens only during summer months. Onsen is modern style. There are one western style restaurant and one Japanese restaurant. We had a western style dinner. Portion is relatively small, but taste good. Yukata is not allowed in the western restaurant. There is a 24 hours vending machine offering hot fast food such as fried noodle, fried chicken, etc. The breakfast was buffet style, with good choice of both Japanese and western style food. View from the restaurant was magnificent in good weather. Check out time is a generous 12 o'clock noon. A rare case in Japan.

  

• Jun W

  06 abril 2016
  Hotel with a nice view though disappointed with the meals

  The hotel looks really nice on the outside, and fairly easy to find. The room was clean and all but not exceptional. The big bath is very comprehensive good with really good shampoo, conditioner, facial cleanser/toner/moisturizer, and body cream, cotton bud, hairbrush and all! there is even an outdoor onsen which is quite nice. We bought a half board package including Ise lobster and Matsusaka beef, I have to say we were very disappointed, the lobster is very small, maybe 12cm only, the entire sashimi plate is the freshest we had before, there were only 4 small pieces of beef , overall dinner was only average. Breakfast was a buffet, plentiful though again just average. Service was attentive though. As far as value for money is concerned, its also rather pricey for JPY 29K considering the dinner was only average ..