Name: OYO Ryokan Hatago Ichiban Chichibu
Address: 368-0002 Saitama, Chichibu, Tochiya 645, Japan, Hanno, Hanno, Hanno, 3680002, Japan
Rating: 6

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OYO Ryokan Hatago Ichiban Chichibu

Hanno

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wired-internet-access

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sauna

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pets-allowed

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I was looking forward to staying at this inn. Before I stayed, I had heard that the inn was established from roughly 300 years ago. As many Samurais stayed there and it still keeps its tradition, I thought the atmosphere would be old-fashioned Japanese style.
On its homepage, it says the house is very close to Shimabu temple, which is a tangible cultural property designated by Saitama Prefecture. You can feel the nature and nostalgia deeply. It seemed to look nice enough to spend 20 minutes to go by bus from the nearest station. Yes, it was true. The temple was very close. Actually, it was behind the inn, but I didn't expect that there would be hundreds of Mizukojizo which is a sculpture for comforting the souls of dead fetuses or stillborn babies. That sight was extremely scary and I was too frightened to sleep at night. The inside of the house looks like it was renovated several times (although it’s not clean and bright enough), so that only the outside of the house has an old Japanese style. The inn has a main house and a sub house. At the main house, there are a dining room and a public bath, and two vending machines. I stayed at the sub house, so that every time I went to the dining room to have meals, went to buy beverages from a vending machine, and went to soak in hot spring water, I had to across a path to go the main building. The days I stayed was raining, so I felt a little bit annoyed.
The food was homely and big. The portion was enough to be satisfied, perhaps youngsters will be glad but elderly people feel too much. The quality was satisfactory, too. In summer season, it included with grilled sweetfish, tempura made with edible wild greens, fresh sashimi, and so on, although some dishes were too salty.
To talk about hygiene of the inn, it was not clean enough. I found someone's hair on my futon. We had to use inn’s any pair of well-worn slippers lined up in the entrance and turn it back randomly each time you wear it on and off. It was not quite a clean way to use footwear in public. The most disappointing fact was that the public bath was small and moldy everywhere. Soaking in hot spring water was the highlight of the trip to relax for me, so I was bummed out. One good point was that you can reserve the bath room for your own use. About the service, the staff was warm but perhaps they were short-handed. We had to wait 20 minutes to check in. 
Overall, the food was satisfied, but the inn didn't make me think I want to spend my time in there again unless they pay more attention to their cleanness if I pay the same price as I paid.

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