25.10.08While the owner operator was a kind and helpful aged man, the place was almost impossible to find by foreign visitors who don’t know Japanese, as the small signs by the small entry way were only in Japanese. We followed the 1 minute walk Google Maps suggestion from bus stop #14 and with luggages, unable to find it. The post office personnel nearby didn’t know the hotel also but with a phone book, helped find and call and got the owner to drive over to pick us up. Unless one takes a taxi from the station with a written note of the place in Japanese, the experience could be a trauma, especially when it was getting dark in the evening.