Overall, this hotel succeeds in looking like a traditional Japanese ryokkan, but unfortunately doesn't feel like one due to many important features missing. If you've stayed at a ryokkan in Japan, this one misses the mark, but potentially is not a problem as it is catered towards Chinese people. As a foreigner accustomed to Japanese standards, you might be disappointed.
It's very clean and modern, with a "private" bath that looks like a traditional private onsen bath. The dinner was average, with the yakitori being the highlight. Breakfast was Chinese food, which took away from the immersion.
As far as experience goes, the main problems here were the details that broke from the immersiveness of being at a traditional ryokkan. These include a lack of privacy, inexperienced staff, out of theme food options, and other details such as not using true hot spring water and the bath being only partly Hinoki wood. The privacy concern is because if you have the courtyard room, you have a "private" courtyard and bath, but in the morning a worker was outside in the courtyard with full view of my bath. This felt very uncomfortable and I no longer felt relaxed or at peace, and needed to close all the blinds which ruined the point of having an open courtyard.
It was worth a try, and definitely a beautiful space. But I couldn't help but feel disappointed as the important details were missed in this recreation of a ryokkan.
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