Hikone hotellia

Plussat: The food was good. The people were nice! My room was clean!

Plussat: Location of the hotel and excellent staffs.

Miinukset: We have a room with castle view with two double beds. The room is too small to walk around and there is no space between two beds.

Plussat: This hotel exceeds all my expectations in particular it's food. The quality of the food at dinner and breakfast are 10 out of 10! Very high standard. Staff are helpful and cheerful.

Miinukset: Nothing

Plussat: After Ofuro ... free drinks (Juice, flavoured water, coffee, tea, ... ) at the Libary Bar in the evening with view towards the Castle. Free bicycles rental ("mama"-bicycles) ... good to discover the near surrounding. Best breakfast buffet during my travel in Japan (japanese food was good displayed/explained) Good English at the reception

Miinukset: Nothing ... this was a really pleasent stay for me.

Plussat: Wonderful experience here. Good view to the castle and five minutes walk to the gate of the castle park. Breakfast and dinner inclusive and the taste were really wonderful. Far beyond expectations and will come again for sure!

Miinukset: Nothing to complain

Plussat: Excellent bath, great location in this old castle town. Rooms are definitely tiny, though, but the breakfast buffet was one of the best I've had in my life.

Miinukset: Small rooms, a bit expensive overall.

Plussat: Location and view of castle. Great food. Wonderful staff.

Miinukset: We liked everything. It was a bit dated but well kept up. Room could have been bigger.

Plussat: This was the best place we stayed at in Japan. Everything was perfect from the welcoming to the goodbuys. The room is amazing, the bath wonderfull, the breakfast delicious. Most of all the people working there were the kindest ever. I had an emergency and needed to go to the hospital they took the best care of me. I will come back for a longer stay for sure and recommand this place to everybody. I will be forever thankfull for their kindness and their amazing room.

Plussat: Location was very convenient and staff were very kind

Plussat: Staff was unusually helpful and thoughtful. After picking us up at the train station, the driver asked if we intended to visit the castle and gardens, informing us that it was closing in two hours. He offered to take us there, then drop off our luggage at the hotel and pick us up afterwards. We wouldn't have had time to visit the castle/gardens otherwise. The driver, receptionist, cook, etc were all members of one large family running the hotel. The hotel was across the road from the coast and there was a little walk along the coast further away. They recommended a nearby restaurant which we could easily walk to in 5 minutes; it was excellent and very reasonably priced.

Plussat: It was a family run business that was not only incredibly welcoming but also very comfortable and relaxing.

Miinukset: Literally nothing.

Plussat: Spacious beautiful room with lake views

Plussat: Excellent family run traditional run Japanese Inn. The staff don’t speak much English however they are all truly amazing and welcoming. The Japanese breakfast was Devine.

Plussat: The Hot bath was awsome

Miinukset: We weren’t lucky as It was a lot of noise and light by night because of road work outside . The pillow was hard and too thick for me The view wasn’t what I’ve been expected from the add. The breakfast was nice to see... but tasteless

Plussat: Could rent bikes which we used to cycle into the town

Miinukset: Little bit on the outskirts it felt at night

Plussat: Parking and breakfast. Sleep wear and toiletries available.

Miinukset: Flat pillow.

Plussat: The bed and pillows are great

Miinukset: The button of the hot pot is not so convince.

Plussat: Location was excellent. It was surprisingly close to an AEON town! Good for shopping. Free breakfast was great

Miinukset: The toilet facilities were abit old so they made strange noises at night. Everything else was absolutely fine.

Plussat: comfortable bed beyond expected breakfast

Miinukset: no triple room

Plussat: Stayed one night was good enough for me, breakfast was good.

Plussat: Staff well-trained, friendly and professional... My heartfelt thanks to the lady staff who helped me to locate the Hikone Catholic Church... Didn’t get her name but deeply grateful... thank you !

Miinukset: No complaints but the structure is of aged... The staff is a great consolation for this budget hotel..

Plussat: Clean, tidy and VERY WELL equipped bedroom. We chose a "small" room and it was compact but not overly small. Would recommend choosing one!

Miinukset: Perhaps could have allowed us to check in before 3pm having arrived at around lunchtime...?

Plussat: Hikone is a nice little town and the hotel is good for the price

Plussat: Good place to stay coupe days.

Miinukset: Heating was too warm for us.

Plussat: It was cheap and central and served our needs for two nights to shelter us from the typhoon after we had to move last minute

Miinukset: Bathroom too small, room very small, 500yen table charge per person in bar

Plussat: Very close to the Hikone station.

Plussat: It was close to Hikone station, an easy flat walk. The breakfast helpings were fine as long as you like Japanese breakfasts. The coin laundry was a nice bonus. Room and bathroom was small but relatively normal for Japanese hotels.

Miinukset: We had been up since 4:30am so really would have liked to check in early but this seemed to quite surprise the staff who reluctantly took my phone number after I pressed twice for them to do so in order to ring me if the room was able to be checked into early. In the end they did manage to ring me at 2pm (check in time was 3pm) with a ready room and I greatly appreciated that but their reluctance to take my phone number even to mollify me was a little unnecessary I thought although I appreciate that cultural differences are likely to prevail here. The beds weren’t vacuumed under and as they are on wheels, and they move quite easily so it is apparent quickly that under the beds are not clean.

Plussat: Very comfortable and well appointed room with adequate storage for two travellers staying for two nights. Everything supplied including toiletries, pyjamas, coin operated laundry and iron upon request. Well presented Japanese style set breakfast with additional buffet items available together with tea or coffee. Excellent location, two minutes walk from railway station, supermarket and restaurants and 10 minute walk to Hikone castle, museum and gardens.

Plussat: The location is brilliant, very close to the JR station and a lot of restaurants are nearby. Hikone Castle is also within walking distance, the staffs are friendly.

Miinukset: None.

Plussat: The location is excellent - near to railway station. I really liked the breakfast - it was served rather than buffet. Small but nice!

Miinukset: not sure of car parking arrangement

Plussat: The room was good - it cooled down quickly. The staff were friendly and attentive and able to handle my poor spoken Japanese. The shuttle bus service was excellent

Miinukset: the location was OK if you had a vehicle - otherwise a bit of a hassle to catch the local train and walk to hotel

Plussat: Perfect overnight stay. 24 hour restaurants right next door as well as a convenience store a 5 minute walk away. Hotel staff was very accommodating and the breakfast was huge and flavorful. The room was small but perfect for light travelers such as myself. Everything was very clean and the bed comfortable. I'd stay here again no doubt.

Plussat: They run a free shuttle bus to Hikone station in the morning, there's fresh baked bread at breakfast (along with a wide variety of other options) everything was incredibly clean and new looking, and smelled very nice. There's an on site restaurant and also a lot of other options nearby.

Miinukset: I'm not sure if there's a shuttle *from* the station too- I only found out about the one *to* the station by chance. Otherwise it's about a 20-30 minute walk.

Plussat: The lovely lady at reception who went out of her way to try and solve the lack of wi-go in my room. Good hotel with an easy walk from train station (10 minutes).

Miinukset: Working wi-fi in my room but I'm sure that was only a temporary situation - something needed a re-boot. So it would be harsh to be critical of the hotel because every other aspect was good

Plussat: Nice breakfast for the price we have paid.

Plussat: We could use hotel’s bicycles for 2 days for free which made our moving around very speedy and enjoyable. Staff was friendly and caring. Place and surroundings are not crowded, so you don’t feel like you are a part of someone’s tour.

Miinukset: Room, bed and bath seemed a bit small for the money. But Hikone is not the mainstream destination, place and city didn’t look packed with tourists. I guess hotel has hard time balancing prices and costs.

Plussat: The room was big.

Miinukset: You can hear the extraction fans and the action of the electronic toilet seats in other rooms. It's loud and distracting. The pillows are also very uncomfortable. I'm glad I took my own pillow. The owner of APA Hotels is obviously a crackpot who isn't ashamed to put propaganda materials (in Japanese) espousing his own politics in every room in all his hotels.

Plussat: The breakfast was very delicious

Plussat: Friendly kitchen and reception stuff. Japanese breakfast is delicious.

Miinukset: Need parking fees, not good smelling in toilet

Plussat: Tidiness

Miinukset: None

Plussat: The room was well sized with great amenities. Staff were amazing

Miinukset: Not the easiest to get too with public transport. But that is the same issue with everything in the town

Plussat: The location is close enough to the train station, convinience store, & sightseeing places in Hikone. You can also find bicycle rental shops nearby. The water tap in the bathroom makes it easy to consistently set the water temperature.

Miinukset: I think the bed is old and I can feel the springs on my back. The walls are thin that you can hear noises from rooms left and right.

Plussat: The room was quite large and comfortable. The hotel is easy to find and quite close to the railway station.

Miinukset: Nothing

Plussat: I had a special request for my check in time but I misunderstood the email that was sent to me since it's in Japanese. I used google translate. I thought I could check in at 11 am, but it was 11pm. Good thing the staff was kind enough to let me check in earlier. All the staff in the front desk, as well as at the restaurant, were all kind. My room was clean and comfortable. The food at the restaurant were all tasty. And the hotel is just a few minutes away from the station.

Miinukset: My room was clean. It's just the bath tub and sink looked a bit broken.

Plussat: Very close to Hikone railway station.

Miinukset: Hair found in beds, dirty towels

Plussat: Conveniently located near the Hikone train station, this hotel is easily accessed on foot with luggage. The hotel was a classic ageing Japanese accommodation with old-school charm. The hotel staff were friendly and helpful throughout our stay.

Miinukset: Typical stiff ‘rice’ pillows which we’ve gotten use to during our stay. Not a fault of the hotel, but Hikone is a sleepy city with not much to do beyond one-day. We stayed 2-nights and would suggest this is probably too long.

Plussat: Great view on the Hikone Castle in our big and comfortable room. Good position close to JR train station.

Miinukset: Receptionist had several difficulties with English, and they did not let us have breakfast (from 8 to 10 am) because it was too late, when it was 9.28!

Plussat: Very helpful staff. Having a car, it was wonderful to have free parking just across the street. Good breakfast.

Plussat: The staff were friendly and helpful. The room was a good size and the bed was comfortable. The WiFi worked OK. The free bicycles were in good condition. The free parking is nice.

Miinukset: The walls are a bit thin, and the fan in the bathroom was irritatingly noisy.

Plussat: Very close to Minami Hikone station and a shopping mall with ATM

Plussat: The size of the room, the amenities offered, the kindness of staff, the nice food. Staff were able to work with my non-existent Japanese with little to no issue.

Miinukset: Would have been nice to be able to do my laundry at the hotel, but it is not much of a problem as there is a coin based launderette a fairly short walk away.

Plussat: The best room I have ever booked in Japan. It is clean and spacious, far from my expectation. Thank you!

Plussat: The location is very strategic, only 2-3 minutes from Minami-Hikone Station. The room and bathroom size is very spacious for one person and also very clean.

Plussat: The only good point about Hikone View Hotel is that the view of Lake Biwa from the room window is fabulous. Also, there was no noise from the other rooms. Water pressure in the shower was good. The price for the uninspiring breakfast was reasonable. The was, at least, an actual closet in the room. The sheets were clean.

Miinukset: The walls of the room are scratched, dirty, stained -- altogether rather disgusting. The beds were low and hard. There are no wine glasses, or glasses or any sort, in the room. There are cups. The bathroom is as small as possible. At least the bathtub is rather deep, but not big enough to stretch your legs out. The furniture is cheap 1970s (?) furniture, battered. The breakfast offered a lot of Japanese items, mostly of average quality. The price is reasonable. If you want a western breakfast, you can have scrambled eggs (undoubtably out of a carton), waffles (out of a package), no butter, lousy bread. The plain yogurt was fine. The coffee was very bad.

Plussat: Firstly, we booked Cottage house but it is not clean enough, sonwe asked the manager to move to hotel room instead and he proposed a good family room with very nice sea view. The hotel location is very nice, we enjoyed sunset lake view.

Miinukset: The cottage house is very old and not clean enough.

Miinukset: The cottage in the grounds was like a concrete bunker, very cold and could do with updating and refurbishment

Plussat: Grand view for the Lake Bewa with an outdoor playground in front of it, excellent for the relaxation

Plussat: The view of the lake was lovely.

Miinukset: The hotel is very tired. Not particularly clean. While the buffet breakfast and dinner were well priced there was a very average selection, with the hot meals not very hot

Plussat: This place is really out the way, and in our two days here we saw little of the town of Hikone itself. But it turned to be an interesting location in its way: lake walks, chatting with people fishing; another hotel within middling walking distance had a sixth-floor Japanese spa facility that was worth a visit (look over the lake while relaxing in 39 degree water). The room we had was really a suite that could have accommodated five or six people. Everything we needed was there. The forbidding concrete bunker-like external appearance of these apartments (at a distance from the multi-storey main hotel building) concealed what turned out to be very comfortable and relaxed accommodation. Dated and dowdy perhaps; but I liked it. Staff were somewhat brusque, but giving us a late checkout with no extra cost was a humane move. There should be more of that.

Miinukset: Meh. Once is enough, here.

Miinukset: Very old, tired room .

Miinukset: Breakfast sold out? Never. I think they just won't me there.

Plussat: The room had the necessary basics. It was clean. I especially enjoyed reading the book on Buddhism.

Miinukset: They decided not to provide breakfasts since it was end of the year, but I only found out about it when I checked in. I feel they should have let me know beforehand. I arrived in the late evening and would have liked to plan for this.

Miinukset: There was a soft core porn advertisement in the room, right on top of the wifi information that was impossible to miss.

Plussat: breakfast

Miinukset: very noisy: bedroom on express way and railway, too much noise

Plussat: Does have restaurant with low price at the hotel

Miinukset: It does located in quite a good location where you can get fresh air, but there is no wire screen at the windows.

Plussat: With this price, the service is worth the money. It took around 5-10 minutes from Hikone station. Also, the morning buffet also is not bad.

Plussat: people were nice, welcoming.

Miinukset: Smoking by the entrance which is the same thing as in the lobby. It's called air and wind, it travels, it smells. MOLD everywhere in the room.

Plussat: The bed was very comfortable and the linen and towels very clean

Miinukset: Common areas are a bit dark and dingy and the carpet in the room needs to be replaced, along with the wallpaper probably. Just a bit old and tired.