Rishiri Marine Hotel

Good location that is close to the ferry terminal. This is important because the bus terminal is also there if you want to travel to other parts of the island. Suggest to request for a sea view room (the breeze is nice and the view of the mountain in the background as well is superb) The meals were one of the best I had during my trip (which included onsen hotels). For dinner, it was Japanese-style, set up very nicely by the time I arrived for dinner. The ingredients were fresh with great variety and the service was great (even though the menu is there in English, the waitresses still try to point them out to you, as some are not as obvious). I requested for an earlier [to start at 5:45am instead of 6:00am] breakfast due to my itinerary, and they were accommodating. The breakfast was also Japanese-style. It was good, but the dinner was just better.

離碼頭不遠，船到了會有舉橫幅的老年員工在出口等接送客人（全日文的橫幅，提前看好日本樣子），看到酒店外觀很普通，沒有禮文島的同等酒店好，因為下雨，海景很一般，房間和衞生間都很小，酒店晚餐和早餐都是純日式的，小朋友不吃海鮮就幾乎沒有其他西式的選擇，泡温泉的地方沒有鎖，帶了手機還有點不放心，可能在這個偏遠的小島已經全不錯了吧。

There are few places to stay on rishiri as most people come as day trippers from wakkanai. We picked the marine hotel as it was close to the ferry and for the views of mount rishiri. We arranged for an airport pickup which was nice. Our main concern was for our lack Japanese speaking but the man at the front desk spoke enough English to get us checked in. Like a lot of Japanese hotels we were given a paper with information in English about the hotel-dining and onsen hours. The food was half board and we were given a large seafood dinner every night. We stayed 3 nights and the food was different every night with a set kaiseki style meal with emphasis on sea urchin/uni. Fortunately our waitress Aoi was very nice and spoke enough English to explain what all the dishes were as well as a menu in English was given every night. Our twin room had a nice view of the ocean and we could see mount rishiri if we stuck our head out of the window a little. We watched the locals bring in their konbu/kelp every morning from our room and set it out to dry. There was a man at the tourist desk in the ferry terminal who spoke English and was very helpful with information and planning activities. Rishiri is for tourists looking for nature and not expecting the usual Hilton experience.

フェリー乗り場もペシ岬も近くてロケーション最高。 夕食後外に出ると利尻山に夕日が沈む所で頂上まで暗闇に浮かび上がりとても美しかった。 お部屋も広くて清潔で寛げました。 稚内でも礼文島でもバフンウニを食べていたのですがこちらのバフンウニも大変美味しかった。 懐かしい味付けの煮魚と茶碗蒸しに母を思い出しました。