I stayed here since this hotel is near the conference venue and offers natural hot spring onsite, and I can speak Japanese. The hotel is dated in terms of its decor and furnishings but I am not picky about that as long as it is clean. Breakfast is very good and sumptuous for someone who loves authentic Japanese food like myself. Service is OK and it would be helpful if you could speak Japanese to stay here. Otherwise an international hotel chain might be more appropriate for those travelers who don't know the Japanese language and the proper etiquette to bath in a Japanese communal bath. If you don't like the idea of bathing with others in a communal bath, there is a bathroom inside the room that has a Japanese bathtub (higher in depth and shorter in length than a typical western bathtub). However, since the room and its bathroom are both small, if you require more space to move around I would not recommend this hotel.