A 10 minute walk from Kinugawa Onsen Station, so inconveniently located if you intend to do sightseeing around Tobu-Nikko because you need to take 2 local trains to get there and they only depart TWICE EVERY HOUR.
The hotel staff were courteous. They let us change rooms after the first night because we kept waking up from the sounds of passing trains and cars. The rear wall of the hotel is right beside the road and the railroad tracks, so make sure to ask for a room located at the front of the hotel, unless you like the thundering and clunking sounds of trains.
The onsen inside the hotel includes 8 shower heads and rubber seats, one indoor and one outdoor communal hot tub. The outdoor one is supposedly loaded with charcoal.
Room floors are tatami, and the futons are not too hard nor too soft. The covers are soft and warm. Yukatas are also provided, but towels are lacking. They only provide you with one large towel and one small hand towel.
One of our towels had a small brown bug crawling on it, by the way.
However, overall the rooms were well-cleaned and organized.
An electric kettle, a tea set with generic green tea bags, and a steel thermos type jug filled with ice cold water are provided.
Be warned that there are only 3 restaurants, all with low quality overpriced cooking nearby. There are also 2 convenience stores without ATMs, selling at double the price snacks found in national chain convenience stores.
