Overview

Choshi Grand Hotel is an oceanfront hotel in Choshi, Chiba, with all rooms facing the Pacific Ocean. You stay close to Inubosaki, in a town known for powerful coastal scenery and one of the earliest sunrise views on the flatland of the Kanto region. The hotel gives you a clear sea-focused stay, with ocean-view rooms, Japanese-style interiors, seafood dining, and hot spring bathing from ancient underground strata.

This stay suits you when you want open ocean views, sunrise moments, Japanese rooms, fresh Choshi seafood, and easy access to Inubosaki Lighthouse, Byobugaura cliffs, and Choshi Fishing Port. You can reach the hotel from Inubo Station in about 8 minutes on foot, and free parking is available on a first-come basis.

Accommodation

Every room faces the Pacific Ocean, so you stay connected to the sea from the moment you enter. Room types include the Standard Japanese Room, Family Room, Deluxe Japanese Room, Standard Japanese-Western Room, and special rooms named Ruri, Sagetsu, and Soumi.

The Standard Japanese Room has a 12-tatami layout and a bright, open feel. The Family Room combines a 15-tatami Japanese room with a 10-tatami Japanese room, giving you more space when you travel with family or friends. The Deluxe Japanese Room has a 10-tatami room plus a living room, while the Standard Japanese-Western Room combines a 5.5-tatami Japanese space with twin beds.

For a more special stay, Ruri has an ocean-view bath and views of the Pacific from both the room and bath area. Sagetsu has large twin beds and a living room facing the sea. Soumi is the largest room, with two 10-tatami Japanese rooms and a living room, making it a strong choice when you want extra space. Special rooms also include a coffee machine, and some include a full-service massage chair.

Room amenities and equipment listed by Rakuten Travel include TV, Wi-Fi, kettle, tea set, refrigerator in some rooms, hair dryer, individual air conditioning, warm-water washing toilet, body soap, shampoo, rinse, face wash, toothbrush set, razor, comb, towels, bath towels, yukata, slippers, and safe.

Dining

Dining focuses on seafood from Choshi Fishing Port, one of Japan’s leading fishing ports. Dinner uses fresh local fish and shellfish, traditional Japanese cooking techniques, seasonal ingredients, and selected items from Chiba, including branded beef, branded pork, and local vegetables.

Standard-room meal plans include kaiseki-style Japanese cuisine made with seafood landed at Choshi Fishing Port. Special-room stays include a more refined kaiseki meal with richer ingredients, careful plating, and seasonal presentation.

You can also pair your meal with Chiba sake, shochu, wine, or Choshi local beer. The dining style is especially good when you want to connect your stay with the fishing culture of Choshi rather than eat a generic hotel meal.

Breakfast is served in an east-facing dining venue, where you may see sunrise depending on the season and timing. Dinner takes place in a sea-view dining space where the lighthouse light and moonlit ocean can shape the evening atmosphere.

Onsen and Wellness

The bathing area gives you two different experiences: an ocean-view observation bath and the natural rock bath known as “Kodai no Yu.” The observation bath uses plain heated water and looks out across the Pacific, so you can soak while watching the sea and sky change through the day.

The rock bath uses natural hot spring water from Cretaceous strata about 120 million years old. The spring rises from around 1,300 meters underground and is a sodium-chloride strong salt spring, known for warming the body deeply. The rock bath also uses natural Choshi stone in its design, giving the bathing space a more rugged local character.

The large public bath area also includes a sauna.

Guests with tattoos

If you have tattoos, you cannot use the large public bath.

Facilities

Choshi Grand Hotel gives you useful spaces for an oceanfront stay. You can spend time in the lobby, lounge, elevator hall, game corner, breakfast and dinner venues, banquet rooms, private dining room, shrine-style event space, and kids’ room. The dining spaces face the sea, so meals and shared time inside the hotel still keep the Pacific in view.

You also have a large public bath, sauna, shop, vending machines, mahjong room, massage service, courier service, fax support, free Wi-Fi, and parking. EV charging is listed on current booking guidance, and shuttle service is available from JR Choshi Station or Choshi Electric Railway Inubo Station during set periods when you contact the hotel.

Activities

You can explore Inubosaki and the Choshi coast from the hotel. Nearby highlights include Byobugaura, Choshi Fishing Port, and marine sports such as SUP, surfing, and kite surfing through partner facilities. Byobugaura stretches for about 10 km, with cliffs around 40 to 50 meters high, and is designated as a national Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument.

Choshi Fishing Port is one of Japan’s major fishing ports, with seasonal catches such as sea bream in spring, sardine and bonito in summer, mackerel and saury in autumn, and flounder in winter. Choshi is also known for kinmedai golden-eye snapper and its long connection with soy sauce culture.

Additional Features

Choshi Grand Hotel gives you all-room ocean views, Japanese-style rooms, Japanese-Western rooms, special rooms with ocean-view baths, seafood-focused kaiseki dining, Chiba sake and Choshi local beer, an ocean-view observation bath, natural rock hot spring bath, sauna, lounge, game corner, kids’ room, shop, banquet rooms, private dining room, Wi-Fi, parking, EV charging, and shuttle support from nearby stations during set service periods.