Shari Hotels with Wi-Fi

One of our two favorite lodgings during a 3-week Hokkaido excursion. Traditional grand onsen resort you could visit and never leave for days. Starts and ends with great enthusiastic service! Well kept property, offers lounge with a view and complimentary snacks/beverages, nice shops, and wonderful top floor onsen that includes nice sauna. The best breakfast buffet we’ve ever visited. The small fishing village of Utoro hosts other hotels and other onsen resorts, but Kitakobushi is the only resort right on the little harbor within easy walking distance of the rest of the village. Utoro acts as a great base to explore the Shiretoko peninsula. Our room, an O Club with Twin and Japanese, was spacious and looked over the harbor and out to sea. We wished we could stay longer.

This is a typical ’boom & bust’ hotel, like the thousands of similar hotels you see all over Japan. It’s enormous, with lobbies, restaurands an common areas the size of airport hangars, huge rooms with separate tatami areas and massive onsens. All of which is in various stage of decay. This particular hotel is set back from the harbour, up on the hillside, presumably for tsunami reasons, which means you have to drive everywhere, to the boat tours in the harbour and the really nice little seafood shacks on the waterfront. The hotel offers, like all Japanese hotels, a myriad of ’settu’ options, all very confusing: breakfast, dinner and onsen package. Ditto with unlimited sake. Lunch and onsen and a spa treatment; don’t take any of these. The food is terrible by Japanese standards, and the gigantic restaurant is more like a East German Communist Party Headquarters canteen circa 1953 than a restaurant. You know whst I mean. Our room was huge, but with peeing wallpaper, slightly smelly damp wall-to-wall carpeting and (my pet hate) one of those pre-fab plastic bathrooms which has all the solidity of a bouncy castle. Our friends stayed at the Kitanokobushi Shiretoko Hotel, and I wish we had too. This is actually built this millennium and is right on the water. I highly recommend you stay there instead. As for me, I am thoroughly fed up with these depressing, smelly 1980’s concrete monsters.

This was the most amazing stay of our 2-week Hokkaido trip. The design of the hotel was very nice, it is hard for a large hotel to feel homely and comfortable, but it did - walking around the lobby and dining areas was such a pleasant feeling, there is also a TV section where everyone enjoyed the documentaries on Shiretoko comfortably. The staff at the hotel were incredible, they were all very friendly and helpful, and seemed genuinely happy with their jobs - from the man at the front of the hotel welcoming us into the hotel and directing the cars to the carpark, to the front desk, and the servers and chefs at the restaurant - everyone was so friendly and nice. The breakfast and dinner buffet was amazingly good - usually I do not enjoy buffets as much, as the food is usually just average, but here, the food variety was amazing, and quality was so good! I had the freshest sashimi, very good desserts, good grilled beef and pork, ramen was amazing, and the fried food counter was so good. The rooms and onsen were comfortable and luxurious as well. The price we paid for the hotel was very well worth it! Thank you very much - we really enjoyed ourselves! Every day when we got back to the hotel after a long day out, it felt like returning home.

There is a transfer from the bus terminal, facing the sea in an inn with a woody smell, and the price is reasonable. I was taken from the Utro bus terminal and went straight to Shiretoko Nature Center by bus. On the way back, I arrived at the inn in 45 minutes on foot while watching the sea of drift ice. The room is not large but clean and the sea is also visible. There is also an open-air bath in time system, and the indoor bath is large and nice. There are owners and employees, so it feels good.

An inn in Utoro, Shiretoko; I used the World Natural Heritage inn Shiretoko Village Tsukuda-so in July 2021. Shiretoko in 2021 was a year when it was very difficult to make reservations for inns. Many guest houses are closed due to the corona disaster, and relatively large inns and hotels are open, and even major hotels will be closed after the beginning of June. We also had to look for an inn in a hurry a month before the trip. Under such circumstances, Shiretoko Village Tsukuda-so is an inn that can be used for a relatively reasonable accommodation price, and the food is delicious (especially the boiled menme is delicious), and it has a hot spring. It is a relatively reasonable usage fee for Shiretoko with a cup of hair crab for dinner and 37400 yen / two people for two meals per night. The hot spring ”Kuma no Yu” was a reddish muddy hot water, also called a beautiful hot water, and it was a pleasant hot water with a little tromi. If there is a difficulty, it was a little difficult to sleep at night in Utoro in 2021, where there were no air conditioners in the guest rooms and the daytime temperature exceeded 30 degrees Celsius. In addition, the surrounding nature is rich, and where does it come out at night, the insects of 々 intrude into the room and make a fuss. The room has insecticides and gum tapes for insect capture, but it may be quite difficult for women ...

The room had a space to open suitcases and was clean. The hot spring water was good, and the sea breeze felt in the open-air bath was also pleasant. In addition to the menus that are common in business-type hotels, there are also seafood dishes. It's true that it's not as luxurious as the introductory photo on the homepage, but I felt that it was the best possible hospitality. The front desk and dining staff seemed to be working with a minimum number of people, but they were polite and kind when I went to the front desk to ask questions, as well as check-in and check-out procedures. Shiretoko itself is expensive, so I think I was able to stay here at a relatively reasonable price. If you think of it as one of the sightseeing bases rather than enjoying it at the hotel, it is a very convenient location near the roadside station, sightseeing boat office, convenience store, coin laundry, Oronko Rock, Godzilla Rock, etc. Shiretoko is a great place for both hot springs and sightseeing.

Shiretoko is not a place to visit during winter, so there are no tourists from outside Hokkaido. Therefore, the quality and service content of the inn are business hotel class in Sapporo, but the price is expensive. I was a solo trip, so I booked a 18000 yen tuil room with no dinner for one night, breakfast, and the rest ４ room in Rakuten travel. The building is clean and clean and feels good. The bath has an open air, and the quality of the spring is only hot and the scenery is almost invisible, but the starry sky is glittering. The open air (women) is displayed as a small area because it is high temperature because of the source area, so that it enters the wide area. Even if it is said that this display was not seen at night, it was usually soaked in a high temperature bath. The number of rooms is large, and the location is convenient because it is a place of about ５ minutes by car from the sightseeing pleasure boat stop and the road station.

The first day was a huge hot spring hotel, so on the second day I wanted to buy and eat crabs, so I went here. There were a lot of low reviews (before renovation?), so I was worried until I arrived, but the facility was renovated and beautiful, and the view was great, overlooking the Utoro fishing port from the room and the open-air bath. 〇 The food at the hot spring hotel is not very delicious and I can't eat it all. Drinks are also super expensive. ⇒ I want to choose what I want to eat and drink to my heart's content. I think it's recommended for people. The shared kitchen was well equipped, and there was no inconvenience with cooking utensils and tableware. However, there are detailed instructions on how to separate garbage, etc. It seems that there are many people who do not use the kitchen.

Located just 46 km from Lake Kussharo, Mizu no Gakko features accommodation in Shari with access to free bikes, a shared lounge, as well as private check-in and check-out. This holiday home provides free private parking, a shared kitchen and free WiFi. This 1-star holiday home offers private entrance. The accommodation comes with a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom with bidet, bath and a hair dryer, while the kitchen features a microwave, a fridge and a stovetop. At the holiday home, all units are soundproof. At the holiday home, all units have bed linen and towels. For guests with children, the holiday home offers an indoor play area and an outdoor play equipment. Guests at Mizu no Gakko can enjoy fishing nearby, or make the most of the garden. Lake Mashu is 46 km from the accommodation, while Abashiri Port is 45 km away. Memanbetsu Airport is 53 km from the property.

An old inn fully renovated into a completely private cottage, with the ocean in front and verdant nature behind.