Location is good, near museum and wonderful public bathhouse. Outdoor hot spring fed onsen at the hotel is a huge plus, but it has a few eyesores like ugly trailing ducts and pipes, garish plastic pails, caulking and untidy landscaping. Tatami still in good condition but room smelled of must and mildew. What must have been at one time a delightfully landscaped enclosed courtyard is now a tangled mess of neglect and that is just one of the many sad little signs of a place that needs TLC. Biggest surprise of the place's poor value for money was the $100 USD facilities fee. Way overpriced for what you get. Creepy aspect to the toilet in the room was glued-on toilet seat covering of some kind of felt cloth. I could not believe it was glued on freshly for each guest. Terrible hygiene. Breakfast, you prompt me to reply? Although my booking said it was available for $3 USD, it was not actually available. The proprietress, who was a nervous wreck (apparently because she had "a big group coming" in the next day and there was no way to add three more guests to the cook's responsibility to feed them all. In actual fact, we only ever saw three new pairs of shoes at the entrance and heard two ladies speaking one day outside in the hall. Either she considers 3 a large group and was overwhelmed by the doubling of that number, or she had a massive number of last minute cancellations. Good thing there's an excellent Denny's down by the train station, because we had a great East-West breakfast there. Anyway, this ryokan is an historic building and there is good and bad with that. She said the wiring is too bad to accommodate our request for a hot water kettle in the room (to her credit, she gave us a big thermos of hot water, each day). Yet she gives guestrooms a hair dryer (you don't have to be an engineer to know how many watts that sucks out of your old wires) and a half-size old fridge. Now this place would be a fantastic place to stay if she spruced the place up. Dust was everywhere in the common areas, and you could see the handprints in it, of other guests trying to navigate the steep stairs and needing a handhold
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