Toya Manseikaku Hotel

This was the day 3 hotel. It was an onsen, but its public bath facilities were not as extensive as those at last night's hotel. Still, the Toya Manseikaku was a very comfortable stop with every necessary facility and excellent service.



Its main doorway is under a porch, down a slope behind a few shops one of which is a 7/11.

No jockey service though it was specified in our Tour Manual.

After dropping luggage, we had to drive out and park in one of the 3 open carparks (not the one above right) at the side of the hotel.

It's a walk in the open back to the lobby.








In the lobby were our three PrimeTour guides with their whiteboard of notices, directions, instructions, and suggestions, besides the envelops with our names containing our room keys and dinner and breakfast vouchers.

Chit-chatted with them and our fellow-travellers, mostly about the misadventures and wrong turns taken by most participants earlier in the day.

Then, up and into the hotel's public hotbaths and then down into the hotel restaurant for the included very good buffet dinner.







Back up to rooms for highrise view of the town's nightly, yes, nightly, fireworks on the lake. BTW forgot to mention that all rooms have lake view in this hotel.

Wow! they moved the table and chairs and made our beds, just as they did in the last hotel. They have this bed preparation service in Japanese style rooms only.













It was a very decent show of about half an hour, after which we took a stroll along the streets around the hotel.


















There was also a nightly show at the quay beside which was earlier berthed a huge ship-barge, like a Japanese version of the Cotton Blossom, all strung up with bright lights. It sails out into the middle of the lake when the fireworks start.

Onlookers joined in the many dances around the huge tall bandstand.




On way back, stopped to soak tired feet in the hotel's roadside feet-soak hotbath, one of many provided all over town by its main establishments.

Those wooden Japanese charkiak weren't very comfortable. We had to swop our room slippers for these at the lobby doors on our way out.

But they do make very loud "music" when you drag them.














Useful corner seat in lift.







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