I searched for a hot spring area that was easily accessible from Tokyo without a car, and stayed there with my family. Since it was before Christmas during the coronavirus pandemic, I took the initiative and booked a room with an open-air bath to avoid crowds. When I entered, I couldn't help but feel disappointed as the chairs at the entrance were old and somewhat broken. However, the room was spacious, the bath was not bad, and the cleaning seemed to be thorough. The problem is the food and the accommodation for the night. At first I heard at the reception that the place for dinner was a private room, but when I went there, there was another customer, and when I called from a nearby telephone, no one answered. I had no choice but to go to the lobby and was finally guided to a cafe-like place near the lobby. After being guided, the food was served, but the food was not ordered in the order written on the menu, but the food written at the back of the menu came out first, so I ate as if I was being rushed. Served like this, all I can say is that the taste is not good. (I feel sorry for the cook, as he seems to have won awards.) After that, it was night. There was a bath in the room, but I thought it would be empty at night, so I went to the public bath and, perhaps because it was the end of the year, I found a middle-aged male guest who was all dressed up, his yukata undone. In this state, I was walking around hand-in-hand with a woman in a miniskirt dressed like a companion from the Showa era, and I was very scared until I got to the public bath. Of course, he wasn't wearing a mask, so I don't want to write anything too discriminatory, but I wonder if there's something I can do about it. The brochure and the inn's website didn't give me the impression that it was going to be that kind of inn, so I was really disappointed as I had made the reservation. I thought I wouldn't be able to stay there with my child.
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