Kinugawa Royal Hotel

The staff is very friendly. Check in time is at 12:00, and guests can proceed to the room at 15:00. When we checked out we were able to keep the luggage at the lobby for the day. Location is 2 minutes walk from tourist attraction, Kinu-Tateiwa-Otsuribashi Suspension Bridge. There are shuttle buses with 3 different routes at the Kinugawa Onsen station where visitors can hop on and hop off to different tourist attractions in the area. I recommend buying Nikko All Area Pass: 4 days pass. This pass allows visitors to take free buses and trains around Nikko and Kinugawa Onsen Areas. It excludes some tourist attraction tickets, but showing the pass will buy attraction tickets, cable cars, and boats with a discount price.

20 minutes walk from Kinugawa Onsen train station, and the road include right/ left turns, up hills and down hills. If guests have luggage, I recommend to take a Taxi. The price of the Taxi from the station to the hotel is about 800yen. The staff don't really know English. The Onsen (Japanese Public Bath) is quite big, but I think it is not that clean. The hotel provide both outdoor and indoor baths, and there are showers available at the site. The room is Japanese style medium size room, which the beds are located on the floor. The bathroom is old, and the hotel didn't provide much bathroom supplies, such as shower caps... There is no air conditioner in the room, so I don't recommend living here in summer. A heater is provided. The breakfast is Japanese style with a lot of choices, but most of the food are pickled vegetable and fruits.