Hotel View Palace

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• Laidback84

  16 enero 2016
  Great views, French food at this onsen hotel

  You have to wind up a few local roads to get to this hotel, perched on a bluff overlooking a vast flat landscape with mountains in the distance. Nice sunrises and sunsets, though the sun can be quite bright shining into the room. This onsen hotel serves multi-course French dinners instead of the usual Japanese kaiseki. Excellent food, with a wine (and sake) list to match. Dining is in pleasant dining room, but you can't come in your yukata. Breakfast is a good buffet of western and Japanese dishes. I didn't try it, but some people like the curry-rice. The hallways look a bit worn, but the rooms are nicely done with western-style beds and private baths. Yukata provided for going to the public bath. The baths, both indoor and outdoor, are also nicely done with wood and stones, though the indoor area is a bit cramped. It can feel crowded if there are half-a-dozen people using the facilities at the same time,. It's a bit of a hike to town, so best to have a car if you want to get around. Relatively close (within walking distance of each other) are three sites. 1) Shika-no-yu public bath, where you can bathe in an old-style wooden bathhouse with a series of baths from about 40 degrees up to a scalding 48 degrees. 2) Nasu onsen shrine, a small shrine with a nice wooded walk out the back end that leads to 3) the Murder Stone, a small ravine with a legend behind it. For hikers, there's a path up into the mountains from the Murder Stone.

  

• freeamac

  19 enero 2017
  A Morning Surprise

  We arrived at the View Palace Hotel during a pouring rain early in the evening. First impressions were of an average Japanese hotel with an efficient and quiet staff helping guests into an average hotel room. Dinner at the hotel restaurant features French themed fare. Pleasant for a single night but it would be overly repetitive if staying several days in a row. The onsen was very good. Small but clean and open to the, unfortunately rainy ni ght. The next morning dawned brilliant and sunny. An amazing view from our hotel room balcony of the plains below. A walk around the grounds of the hotel revealed an equally beautiful view. The location and scenery is what lifts the View Palace Hotel above average.