Echizen Awara Onsen Tsuruya

A very nice onsen hotel with very good food and high quality of service. It was near to the local train station (Echizen line), just a 3 min walk, but if you are taking the JR train, the JR station is a bit far and you need to call the hotel to arrange for transfer. We arrived by the local train line (Echizen line - which is different from the JR line) and walked to the hotel. On the day of departure, we took the free hotel shuttle to get to the father away JR train station. Service level was excellent and good. Food included for breakfast and dinner was fantastic. It was a small hotel with few rooms only so you will not get the disturbance of any large group or small children. It quiet and peaceful. The only downside was that the Awara onsen town was really a onsen town with onsen hotel only and nothing else. You won't see any local shops or onsen street like in other Japan onsen town. Basically you stay in your hotel, and you got nothing to do or to see on the street. There was a very small and very short so call the night market street with few shops and bar that only open at night, but we did not visit it so cannot comment too much on that but judging from the few shops and bars in that short street, it won't be fun either.