Kikori

When I arrived at the inn after being picked up from the station, the garden, pond, and pine trees around the entrance were wonderful. A cute Jizo statue also welcomed me. The lobby was also surprising, with an abundance of wood, and the wooden floors and corridors were shiny. The room was a calming Japanese-style room, and the bath in the room was also a hot spring. Wi-Fi was also available in the room. When I checked in, I was happy to be able to choose a colored yukata for women. The open-air bath was available at the neighboring "Bamboo Forest Garden Mizuho (sister hotel)", but it was not inconvenient. The bath water was smooth Isawa Onsen water, and the open-air bath was quite warm, so I took a long time in it. The indoor bath in the large public bath was an ancient cypress bath, and it was a nice bath. By the way, there was a shampoo bar, but all the bottles were almost empty. I think it would have been better if there was no shampoo bar. Dinner was served at the venue, and there were partitions between the tables. Dinner was a typical inn dinner, but the Fujinosuke salmon sashimi and grilled Fujinosuke salmon from Yamanashi were delicious (Fujinosuke is an original fish of Yamanashi Prefecture that is a cross between king salmon and trout). The firefly squid vinegared dish had a spring-like leaf flavor, and the tempura was a spring gift, with wild vegetables. It was my first time to try grape bud tempura. The hot pot was refreshing and not too heavy, and the matcha pudding for dessert had a strong matcha flavor and was delicious. The waitress was very efficient. I usually drink alcohol, so I eat and drink slowly over about 1.5 hours, but this time I finished eating in an hour. Breakfast was proper Japanese food, and the clam soup was miso soup. An inn that serves clam soup for breakfast is good for people who drink alcohol. Also, what was good for us was that there were various wines on sale at the shop (including wines from local wineries that we don't usually drink), so we asked if we could BYO at Isawa Onsen by paying a corkage fee of 1,000 yen, and they said we could bring our own wine to dinner without a corkage fee and they would keep it chilled for us. This was very good news for our family, who are heavy drinkers. After breakfast, when we returned to our room, the futons were already made, and we thought it was a proper inn.