Ōita hotels

Pros: The hotel was in a great position on the waterfront. There were many restaurants and bars within a few minutes walk. The station was about a ten minute walk. The room was very large with an Onsen bath on the balcony. The Onsen water was very hot, but you could add cold water. The staff were very helpful and welcoming,

Cons: Nothing everyone was great.

Pros: The room we had was excellent (we went for one with a private onsen) and I could not recommend it more. Amazing facilities and lots of free amenities provided by the hotel! The staff were very friendly and nice too!

Pros: Room is so big Clean and good location

Pros: Absolutely perfect. On the coast of Beppu, quiet and clean. A walking distance from Beppu station. Amazing in-room breakfast with an outstanding view. Private in-room onsen plus a great rooftop outdoor onsen. Really high-end.

Cons: Nothing

Pros: The baths were great

Cons: The steps to get into the accommodation. Made it hard to carry suitcases up but the staff members help which was helpful.

Pros: Many good restaurant around the hotel

Pros: Fantastic location (an easy walk from the station - 10 minutes) The staff were incredibly friendly. Great breakfast. Rooms were amazing and the private onsen was a great addition!

Pros: Absolutely amazing place to stay in the middle of Beppu. It is retro but yet stylish; it is nostalgic but yet characteristic. Staff was very welcoming and attentive. The room is large and has lovely decorations. The outdoor hot spring for private use is really a nice touch for maximising my enjoyment at this place. Strongly recommend to opt in for the breakfast - very tasty indeed! I would love to visit them again soon - worth every penny!

Pros: Beautiful Onsen. Great place!

Cons: Nothing. Perfect.

Pros: The interior was very cute and staff were very lovely and helpful! They had even hired an English speaking staff for foreign visitors!

Cons: The bathroom and floors were a bit dirty and walls very thin (you could constantly hear staff and guests stomping around the wooden boards outside) the price was kind of steep for the offering. Would have also been nice if dinner was available as an add on

Pros: The private onsen was amazing and the staff are very attentive and nice! We loved the historical element to this traditional Ryokan.

Pros: Having read the reviews, I knew this was going to be a rather dated ryokan in need of updates, but, it is still a good value for money if you are looking for a traditional Japanese experience. The building is old and creaky and that is part of the charm, however, that shouldn't stop them brightening up the inside onsen a bit, which was so dark and murky that I didn't even use it. Fortunately, the outdoor onsen made up for that. The staff were lovely and even dropped what they were doing to drive me to the train station upon departure.

Cons: A few updates to the soft furnishings could be done to update the place. My en suite bathroom had an unpleasant sour odor if I did not run the exhaust fan and air constantly. Could not SEE the bottom of the inside onsen and I'm not sure if that meant the bottom needed scrubbing, so I did not use it at all.

Pros: Nice family run Ryokan, hosts were exceptional. Very welcoming, a lot of details to the that make you feel at home. Good facilities, everything clean. Nice onsen and very beautiful privat rotemburo for free.

Cons: Water in the Rotemburo was a bit hot for my taste, nothing else

Pros: Consistently outstanding food, breakfast and dinner were out of this world. Truly charming service and excellent premises, clean, warm, friendly, efficient- Ryokan perfection with lovely in-house onsens literally a few steps away from the station, and with excellent parking. Absolutely perfect.

Cons: Nothing- it couldn't be better. I just hope that the unique and wonderful features of this Ryokan are there forever.

Pros: Everything else

Cons: It was a bit pricey

Pros: The hotel was close to Beppu station and the staff were super friendly, especially the older ladies. We had a room with our own private bath but the common baths were also easy to use: just see which of the three is not being used, change the mark to occupied and enjoy! The breakfast was traditional Japanese food and filled nicely.

Cons: I found one black hair from my bath towel, but other than that I don't have any complaints.

Pros: Beautiful Ryokan with a nice garden and atmosphere. An amazing experience with super service. The room was just perfect. The onsens were free at anytime we wanted to use them. Nice breakfast.

Cons: Everything was great

Pros: Authentic Japanese experience. The room was large and well appointed. The bonus was the private hot spring bath. Allowed us to experience the reason Beppu is so well known in Japan.

Pros: Convenient location

Cons: Customer service is below standard.

Pros: The staff were absolutely incredible! The kindness, attention to detail and the welcome has been absolutely unprecedented. The rooms and the location right next to the beautiful river and the gardens were spectacular.

Pros: Very helpful staffs , the traditional Japanese cottage is beautiful , tatami very comfort , they provided free private onsen , that’s amazing .

Cons: The bathroom shower is weak to supply hot water , luckily we use onsen bathroom , that’s better than bathroom in room ,

Pros: Location and how they did the garden landscapes with combination of surrounding nature.

Cons: Bathroom shower wasn’t working properly (in house one) and no heating system apart from rooms wilhich made rest of the spaces rather cold and chilly. Outside bath, changing area had no heating system also the shower adjustment was very difficult and was never adjustable to the right temperature.

Pros: The onsen is excellent with great privacy. The staff service is attentive. The room is clean and comfortable also with good size.

Cons: The price I booked is a bit too high. The food quality is not as good as I expect but still quite nice.

Pros: Room were inclusive of breakfast & dinner. And both meals were amazingly done! The staff were very very helpful and friendly and helped us in all Enquiries that we had. This is by far the most amazing stay we had!

Cons: Nothing at all. All were too good to be true!

Pros: Service, food, ambience, and everything is excellent at Beppu Showaen. There's nothing bad about this ryokan; staff go all out to make your stay as comfortable and memorable as it can be!

Cons: Nothing at all.

Pros: Very warm and friendly staff, being very kind to my 6-year old daughter. The hotel is well situated being at the mountain, if you want to spend some days in calm and relaxing atmosphere, this hotel is definitely much better than others you can find at seaside Beppu (plenty of tourists). Also the first day we waked up and find many monkeys on the top of the roof and they jumped from one tree to another, fantastic scene! The meals are great, authentic Japanese traditional meals!

Cons: Nothing, everything perfect!

Pros: The location was most inspiring! It was clean, garden immaculate, the air is fresh.

Cons: The toilet is cold.

Pros: The hotel is very well situated, the rooms are a good size, the bathroom, shower, and toiletries (including slippers and gowns) provided are great, and the staff are wonderful. We were very impressed with the range of breakfast options. Although the hotel doesn't have its own onsen, there are many excellent facilities nearby. Wouldn't hesitate to stay again.

Pros: Good location for local bars and restaurants. 10 minute easy walk to station through undercover shopping arcade!

Cons: Breakfast was a bit average for my western tatses! A few funky things I wasn’t game to try first thing in the morning!

Pros: The location was a short walk from the main station along a colonnade of shops and restaurants. Location was therefore great. Room was Japan small but reflected in the price. The room was spotless as I got used to expecting in Japan. Staff also very helpful with advise on getting round etc

Cons: Small buffet for a small hotel. Cant expect an extensive range of food out when the hotel is a smaller hotel so breakfast reflected that.

Pros: It was available.

Cons: Not friendly. Wanted to charge extra 5,000 yen for single beds. Telling me the double bed was very small.

Pros: Very comfortable bed, the shower was wonderful but the room a little on the small side. In a great location right in Oita centre with very helpful staff

Pros: Great location for the train station and Rugby World Cup access.Bars and restaurants on the doorstep.Lovely staff and clean comfortable rooms.

Cons: Overpriced because of the Rugby World Cup

Pros: Very clean, good breakfast nice friendly staff are

Cons: Standard business hotel

Cons: Needs a refurb, looking tired

Pros: Great location - not far at all from the train station and right around the corner from the Oita Prefectural Art Museum (OPAM). Great service from the Front Office Staff.

Cons: Would have been nice to have an Onsen in the hotel given it is located in one of the best Onsen areas in Japan. The room decor was a little tired.

Pros: Position was really good as close to station but just enough removed. Local covered eating/shopping areas useful too.

Cons: Nothing really although there was not something that really stood out either. Good handy functional place to stay.

Pros: Location,clean and friendly staff

Cons: Charged for room Coffee , unnecessary.

Pros: Nice big room. Very good location 10-15 mins from main train station and a covered arcade full of restaurants, bars and shops starts just over the road from the entrance to the hotel and goes all the way into the centre of Oita. Lobby bar closes a little bit early at 11.00pm with last orders for drinks 10.30pm

Pros: Good location

Pros: We stayed in this hotel for one night during the Rugby World Cup. From the photos when booking, I was expecting a fairly standard hotel, and wasn't prepared for the luxurious foyer with marble and chandeliers, and the more than standard room. Rooms were small, but we were able to book three rooms next to each other for our family. We didn't spend much time in the hotel but all the staff we dealt with were very helpful and friendly. Great location right in the centre of Oita, near restaurants, shops and only 5 mins walk to the train station.

Pros: The room was comfortable e.g bed, shower and the internet worked well.

Cons: When I checked in I gave my credit card for payment but for some reason the hotel never charged me so after I left the hotel and went to Tokyo they chased me up for payment for nearly a month. Instead of just charging the credit card they said I had to pay by bank transfer!!! Finally when they did by some form of magic charge my card the rate was around $30 more then what I had booked for on booking.com I would caution anyone thinking of booking to stay here.

Cons: There was a problem with payment as we shared the cost across two different room types. A staff member cancelled the payment on my card to charge me a lower payment but did not ask to do so. The original debit took some days to be cancelled hence I had limited access to funds.

Pros: Very convenient, good variety of Japanese breakfast.

Cons: Not that quiet, it’s near the train tracks.

Pros: Staff were so kind. We had an email saying our bed would be 1.2m wide. We knew it would be small as a last minute booking and the area was fully book. We were pleasantly surprised by size of bed and room.

Cons: No complaints very functional property with very kind welcoming staff.

Pros: The location is good and easy to access to JR train. There is one Japanese staff who knows how to speak Mandarin and she is quite helpful.

Cons: In all fairness all hotels were fully booked on that night due to rugby world cup games. So I ended up in that hotel. Room couldn't be tinier as I couldn't lay my suitcase open on the floor.

Pros: It's 2 minutes from the train, central, the staff are amazing and the laundry was easy to use. The rooms are ok, but the shower was good and the bed comfortable.

Cons: Liked it all. No issues at all.

Pros: Staff were very helpful and polite

Pros: Single room was reasonably large by Japanese standards, bathroom was small but never needed to use the bath / shower as always used the excellent in-house onsen instead. Check-in and check-out were speedy despite the hotel being very busy (Rugby World Cup quarter-final weekend). Free car parking was a bonus. Hotel was also easy to find, located on the main highway that runs along the beachfront, opposite the side street leading to Beppu train station. So very good for bars and restaurants, but room was quiet enough for sleeping.

Cons: The onsen was closed from roughly 09:30 to 13:00 each day, which meant that lazy late-morning spa time was not an option.

Pros: Good breakfast. Nice baths. Very friendly staff.

Cons: Room was a little small

Pros: Close to the beach, parks and a nice outdoor onsen ! You can open the window, sorta of a rare things in Japan. At least for most multiple floor type of hotel. Would recommend it !

Cons: Very tiny room but still comfy though. Not the most soundproof place but not too bad either. Liked it a lot and would go back for sure.

Pros: Walking distance from JR station.

Pros: Great location, very handy for RWC in Oita.

Cons: Nothing

Pros: Wonderful and inexpensive breakfast

Cons: All good

Pros: Onsen & room with ocean view is nice , comfortable bed, room is big , location is very convenient in walking distance from train station, shopping, & restaurants, staffs are very nice & helpful

Cons: Hotel sign doesn't have in english. (they should put name of hotel in english)

Pros: -711 in walking distance -Plenty of restaurants nearby -The staff is very polite and welcoming -Sea view from the room -Traditional Japanese Tatami Room -Breakfast was simple but delicious and plenty

Cons: The indoor and outdoor public onsen. They should clean it often and they should provide more choice of soap like scrubing for face like the other ryokan with onsen.

Pros: The room was very spacious and bed really comfortable. Nice breakfast with a lot of choice from the buffet.

Pros: All the experiences are great

Pros: Good location, next to the sea, they have outdoor and indoor onsen. And the water in your room also come from onsen as well.

Cons: Some facilities like a bathtub is quite old

Cons: Did not appreciate being charged over £200 per night for 1 person Room Only! Grossly inflating prices taking advantage of the Rugby World Cup was immoral!

Cons: Property needs a refurbishment

Pros: By the sea and close the station. Good view of the Pacific from our room

Pros: Good location

Pros: Skipped it, we had a train to catch.

Cons: Everywhere in Beppu was massively overpriced that day due to the Rugby World Cup. We probably paid 3 times what the hotel would charge off peak.

Pros: Great location. Private Onsen baths. Big breakfast. Friendly staff. Nice sized rooms and kept clean everyday. Nice retro hotel.

Cons: Bathroom a bit small but that is Japan. But toiletries provided were great and good quality.

Pros: Lovely location, right on the water. This is the second time we’ve stayed there, and would stay again! Staff are helpful & kind, rooms are clean & comfortable, located relatively close to Beppu Station.

Pros: The location was the best part of this hotel.

Cons: The room smelled like cigarette smoke and the bathroom had a weird smell. It just didn't feel clean

Pros: Great location and very friendly staff.

Cons: Surroundings due to contractor works were a little bit depressing. I paid 130€ without breakfast. Too high but town was flooded by world champ. rugby tourists.

Pros: Excellent service, great breakfast, clean rooms, comfy beds & super onsen! The location was perfect - first class hotel

Cons: Nothing!

Pros: Friendly and helpful staff

Pros: The style of the room

Cons: The sleeping on the floor wasn't great.

Pros: Very clean rooms and staff were very helpful during stay.

Cons: Nothing!

Pros: Very Clean, comfortable, good staff, couldn't fault. About a 10 min walk to main station Oita but for airport access the Airport limo bus stops around the corner, very convenient.

Pros: Convenient to railway be happy to stay

Pros: Everthing was great. Especially the staff and breakfast

Pros: The location was ideal

Cons: Rooms were tiny and the double bed was as it said ‘small’

Pros: I played old fashioned computer games there. It was surprised.

Cons: Very basic. You get what you pay for. Great location.

Pros: For busy travelers who only want to stay one night in Beppu in close proximity to the JR train station, this place is perfect. Close to various public baths and restaurants and easy to find. It would be a bit of a walk though if you prefer staying at the coastal area. But as we had a daytime train to catch, this location was perfect for us. Only shared bathroom and toilet but everything (as always, in Japan) was clean. Overall a hostel-style guest house with good value for money.

Cons: Guests have to make their own futons. No elevator in the building.

Pros: + Friendly staff + Old-fashion house + great location + cheap

Cons: 1. Gotta make your own bed before you sleep 2. Only accept cash.. no credit card 3. My room was not that good. A Bit stuffy

Pros: good privacy with curtain, quiet

Cons: too hot. mosquito in room

Pros: Nice staff and good infrastructure

Pros: So much space everywhere! Lots of rooms in dorms for bags and everything else, big kitchen area, wide stairs! You feel like a kid again walking around in the former school (?) building.

Cons: -

Pros: excellent location, very helpful stuff

Cons: To far from the town. Nothing western available for breakfast, not even coffee

Cons: Set Dinner not good .. don’t expect no beef !!! Can’t imagine no coffee provide at breakfast !! No one can communicate in English at Reception !! Too bad Swimming pool too dirty and too small !! Price Overcharging

Pros: An excellent hotel on the outskirts of Beppu. The staff were very helpful and we made good use of the onsens (separate ones for male and female). Breakfast is Japanese style, so was a surprise on the first morning, but we enjoyed it. We used the yukatas quite a bit around the hotel and even wore them to breakfast.

Cons: It is quite a long way out of town, so you'll need a car or to use taxis if you want to get anywhere. The centre of Beppu does not have a lot going for it, but at least had some rugby fans around when we were there.

Pros: The room is clean and new, and the view is awesome. Location is good for driving.

Cons: The public bath is a bit small.

Pros: The staff were fantastic and worked very hard to accomodate our family including getting an extra room at short notice.

Cons: Very little English at all. Difficult to order in the restaurant, understand the staff, understand the tours etc. Room was small, beds and pillows hard (like many Japanese properties) and there really was no wherte to sit or work.

Pros: 1. A very, very spacious hotel room with a wide sea view of Beppu Bay. 2. Very close (10 mins) away from the the Kintetsu Beppu Ropeway, a popular tourist destination in the area.

Cons: 1. Called the receptionist from the room and they said they couldn't speak English. 2. They charge JPY100 for the bottled water in the fridge. Not a lot, but didn't expect that.

Pros: The service overall was good.

Cons: The hotel a bit too old and the room has smell when I go in. The breakfast and dinner were not expect like that. I expect more grand and nice.