Noboribetsu Manseikaku

Traveled to Noboribetsu with friends, mainly to enjoy the hot springs. Manseikaku Hotel is an old-school hot spring hotel, apparently around for 65 years. The room rate included dinner and breakfast. Both meals were buffets with a good variety of dishes. After dinner, it was convenient to go out for a walk and some shopping.

Hotel🏨 Pros: The location is quite good, very close to the bus stop, just a 2-minute walk. The breakfast and dinner buffets offer a great variety of food. Cons: The hotel is quite old, and the facilities and equipment are showing their age.

The room was spacious and the view from the window was beautiful. Breakfast and dinner offered a wide variety of delicious options. The airport shuttle bus stop is conveniently located right across the street, but remember to book online in advance. It's also very close to Jigokudani (Hell Valley).

Dinner was delicious, the beef was incredibly flavorful! However, out of all the onsen hotels we stayed at during our trip, the smell in the bathroom here really left a lasting impression – a strong urine odor. Everything else was okay, but overall it was not as good as the Toyako Manseikaku.

We booked a one-night stay with two meals included. The dinner buffet was fantastic, with a wide variety of seafood dishes, tempura, and delicious desserts.

This is an older onsen hotel, and its main advantage is its proximity to the bus terminal. However, the room facilities are very old, and the cleanliness is questionable (there were chocolate crumbs on the floor). What really angered me was that when my family went to the onsen, they were reprimanded twice by the onsen staff for bringing the large towels from the room. My family doesn't understand Japanese, so they didn't know why she was shouting a lot of incomprehensible things at them. The onsen staff scolded them in front of all the other guests, which was very embarrassing for my family. We paid over 3,000 yuan to stay here during the holiday, and to receive such treatment was truly disheartening! After complaining to the hotel, we demanded a face-to-face apology! However, we had to negotiate and wait near the front desk for almost an hour, which wasted a lot of time and completely ruined our enjoyment.