Konpira Onsen Kashikiri Yunoyado Kotone

This hot spring hotel in Kotohira is very well-equipped and has 6 free hot springs for tourists to soak in after shopping every day. It is so healing. Then you can have an all-you-can-eat dinner. The food is rich and exquisite, and breakfast is included. The styles are very rich.

It was cheap on my way back to Kochi, so I stayed one night with my family just to climb Konpira-san. The guest rooms are fine if you just want to sleep. The private bath is also nice. The nearby food restaurant was also delicious. The super dissatisfied point is I couldn't stop the imported car because it was too big in the parking lot. It was taken to a parking lot a little further away. Since it's a decent car, I was worried about it being taken to a place where I couldn't see it, and when I checked out, I took it to a place I didn't know, but I was told to look at the map before I could go pick it up. I was very, very dissatisfied.

It is part of the Yachiyo inn chain nearby. It was renovated from an old reinforced concrete building. Perhaps it was an employee dormitory? The fact that the lock is not an automatic lock is a bit of a Showa era thing. Installing a unit bath in an old building can be quite intimidating, but that is the case at this inn. The baths are sold as private baths. There are three types: for about 2 people, for about 3 people, and for a few people. When we visited, the two largest rooms were closed due to renovation work. The entire third floor of the building is the bath floor. The window side (outside) is a balcony-like space like the guest rooms. There is no open-air bath. The baths are slightly different in color and made of different materials, but they are almost the same, so they are not the kind of baths you can enjoy bath-hopping. When we went around 6pm, it was crowded, but luckily one was free. It was free late at night and in the morning, but it seems that it may be difficult to get a bath during busy periods. It would be better to have a large public bath after all. It is probably more suitable for couples. Some of the restaurants in the area are open until around 10pm, and there is an udon restaurant that opens from 9am, so it may be fine to just stay overnight. It takes less than 10 minutes to get to Kotohira Station, and 10 minutes to get to the foot of the approach to the shrine. There are many shops nearby, and you don't have to worry about being on the other side of the river. Accommodation in Kotohira is more expensive than in the surrounding towns because it is a tourist destination, but I think this was reasonable.

Three people used it. The location is good, close to the entrance to the approach to Mt. Konpira. The room was 3 bedrooms, but it was a little small. There was an old unit bath in the room, but it felt a little small to use the toilet, and the ventilation fan was noisy. They sell private baths, but two of the five baths were under renovation and could not be used, so I had to return three times to take a bath because they were full. It's very inconvenient because there is no public bath. If you go to Yachiyo, the main building, which is a 3-minute walk, you can enter the public bath, but it is a hassle to go all the way there.

Although it is a hot spring inn, it does not have a large public bath. There are about 7 unique private baths. All of them are full with 3 to 4 people. Each room is locked, so there is no possibility that other people will enter while you are taking a bath. You can also walk to the approach to Kotohiragu Shrine. You'll either love it or hate it, but I really liked it.