Romantic Hotels in Matsumoto

Excellent new hotel, very well furnished and decorated rooms. Shoes off as soon as you enter the hotel. They even have a cleaning machine at the entrance to clean the wheels of your luggage. Nice onsen, though a little small. Free popsicles and ramen for supper. Very close to Matsumoto Train station.

■There is a free shuttle bus from Matsumoto Sta.>>Hotel 16:00/17:00 Exit the station and walk to the right to wait for the bus near the police station. The bus will have a Shoho sign. From the hotel>>Matsumoto Sta. 9:00/10:00 If you want to stop by near the castle, tell the driver. He will let you get off along the way before reaching the station. ■Before checking in, we went to Kamikochi first. In the morning, we left our luggage at Ace Inn, which is part of the same chain. We will get a numbered tag to pick up our luggage at Shoho. / After checking out, we will go sightseeing in the city before returning. We can leave our luggage at Shoho. They will send it to us to pick up at Ace Inn. ■Free drinks from 15:00-20:00: Tea, coffee, fruit juice, beer. / Welcome drinks are tea and 3 types of pickles. ■The Panorama View Onsen alternates between men and women. / Another onsen is separated for men and women and uses the same time.

Booked this place near Matsumoto city for my family to have a ryokan experience. It is about 15mins drive from the city and easy to find. There is also a Lawsons across the hotel if you want to get any snacks. But we didn’t need to as there was a welcome tea and snack and more tea and biscuits in the room. We had the family room which fit the 5 of us perfectly. There was the main room which can fit 3 and 2 more in the smaller room. The 2 toilets also made it convenient. Only downside was that we could hear water gushing through the pipes above in the night. We enjoyed the kaiseki dinner and morning breakfast. We were also allowed to reserve a 40min private session on the rooftop onsen. It was relaxing to have a hot soak in the cool night. Overall an enjoyable stay with excellent food and service!