Overview
Stay at Kurobe Kanko Hotel, the longest-established hotel in Omachi Onsen-kyo and a convenient base for the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. Surrounded by trees at the foot of the Northern Alps, you can enjoy mountain scenery, natural hot spring water, generous buffet dining, and easy access to outdoor experiences throughout the year.
The Alpine Route entrance at Ogizawa is around 20 minutes away by car. This location makes it easy to visit Kurobe Dam, walk among high mountain landscapes, or see the famous snow walls during spring. In winter, you can spend the day skiing before returning for a hot bath and buffet dinner.
Inside, spacious lounges, large bathing areas, entertainment spaces, and 90 non-smoking rooms give you plenty of room to relax. Whether you are travelling as a couple, with family, or as part of a group, you can plan each day around sightseeing, bathing, dining, and time in the mountains.
Accommodation
Choose from traditional Japanese rooms and Western rooms. Kurobe Kanko Hotel does not have Japanese-Western room categories, but the wide selection includes compact rooms, larger tatami rooms, connecting Japanese rooms, twin rooms, and top-floor rooms with impressive mountain views.
Japanese rooms range from six to 12 tatami mats and use futon bedding. The eight-, ten-, and 12-tatami rooms include a private unit bath and Washlet toilet, while the compact six-tatami room has a toilet but no private bath.
The fifth-floor Japanese rooms offer eight-, ten-, or 12-tatami layouts and some of the best views towards the Northern Alps. These rooms are well suited to a special trip when the surrounding scenery is an important part of your stay.
For more space, choose a connecting Japanese room with eight plus six tatami mats or ten plus six tatami mats. Sliding doors divide the two areas, giving you room to sit together while keeping a separate sleeping space. These larger layouts include a private unit bath and toilet.
Western Twin Rooms measure approximately 14.5 square metres and sit on the first floor of the main building. Selected rooms include a sofa bed, while one room has a step-free entrance and a more accessible layout. The private toilet and unit bath still require you to transfer from a wheelchair.
Compact Twin and Single Rooms are located on the fourth floor. The Twin measures around 11 square metres, while the Single measures around nine square metres. The main-building elevator reaches only the third floor, so you need to use stairs for the final floor.
Every standard room includes free Wi-Fi, individual heating and air conditioning, a television, refrigerator, kettle, tea set, hair dryer, safe, and Washlet toilet. Bath towels, face towels, slippers, hand soap, and local sweets are provided. Yukata and toothbrushes can be collected near reception.
Futon preparation is self-service, allowing you to arrange your bedding when you are ready to sleep. No room includes a private natural hot spring bath.
Dining
Dinner is a 90-minute buffet with more than 70 Japanese and Western dishes. You can watch meat being cooked at the live station and choose from tempura, crab, sushi, sashimi, rice dishes, salads, and changing seasonal selections.
Shinshu flavours include oyaki dumplings, nozawana pickles, soba, locally produced miso, and ingredients sourced from Nagano whenever possible. The buffet also introduces dishes prepared by the Nepalese kitchen team, which may include dal curry, momo dumplings, butter chicken curry, tandoori chicken, and naan.
Dessert choices include cakes, fruit, several ice cream flavours, and soft-serve ice cream that you prepare yourself. Soft drinks, coffee, tea, and fresh water from the Northern Alps are included. A self-service selection of beer, sake, shochu, wine, highballs, sours, plum wine, and whisky is also included with dinner.
Dinner is normally served from 18:00 to 20:30, with final entry at 19:00. Times and dishes may change according to the date and seasonal ingredients.
Breakfast is a Japanese and Western buffet with more than 60 choices. You can begin with grilled fish, eggs, bacon, sausages, rice, porridge, Shinshu miso soup, salads, bread, local farm jam, fruit, yoghurt, or ice cream.
You can also create your own seafood rice bowl with ingredients such as minced tuna, salmon, squid, and seaweed. Other specialities include coarsely grated mountain yam and miso soup made with ten Japanese grains.
Breakfast is normally served from 7:00 to 8:30, with final entry at 8:00. Dinner and breakfast are both served in the restaurant.
The buffet identifies seven major allergens: egg, milk, wheat, buckwheat, peanuts, shrimp, and crab. All food is prepared in a shared kitchen and serving utensils may come into contact with other dishes, so complete protection from cross-contact is not possible.
Onsen and Wellness
Relax in one of the largest indoor hot spring bathing areas in Omachi Onsen-kyo. The two bathhouses, Ki no Yu and Ishi no Yu, switch between men and women, allowing you to experience both during your stay.
Ki no Yu uses hinoki cypress throughout the bathing space, filling the room with a gentle wooden fragrance. Its large indoor bath creates an open setting where you can stretch out and soak after a day in the mountains.
Ishi no Yu is built with serpentinite stone from the Northern Alps. The stone changes to a rich green colour when wet, giving the bathing area a distinctive appearance. Both Ki no Yu and Ishi no Yu include an indoor bath and an open-air bath surrounded by seasonal scenery.
An outdoor dry sauna stands beside each open-air bathing area. The sauna operates at around 90°C and includes background music, creating the feeling of sitting quietly in the forest. A cold-water bath is available beside the sauna.
The sauna is normally open from 12:00 to 22:00 and from 5:00 to 9:00. You should use your own towel on the sauna bench, as individual sauna mats are not provided.
The hot spring water blends the historic Kuzu Onsen source with a newer Omachi source. It emerges at approximately 62.8°C and is classified as a simple, weakly alkaline, hypotonic, high-temperature spring. The water is clear, colourless, and almost odourless.
The spring is associated with easing fatigue, muscle and joint discomfort, stiff shoulders, sensitivity to cold, bruises, sprains, nerve discomfort, and stiffness after physical activity.
Because the source is naturally hot, the bathing water is diluted with approximately 15% to 20% regular water. It is circulated, filtered, and disinfected with chlorine rather than used in a fully free-flowing system.
During your stay, you can use the baths from check-in until midnight and again from 5:00 to 10:00. The bathing areas close between 10:00 and 12:00 for cleaning. Bring the bath towel and face towel provided in your room.
Kurobe Kanko Hotel does not have a private rental bath.
Guests with Tattoos
You can use the shared indoor baths, open-air baths, and saunas only when every tattoo is completely concealed beneath one covering seal measuring no more than 8 by 10 centimetres. You need to bring your own covering seal.
If your tattoos cannot be fully hidden beneath a single seal, you cannot use the shared bathing and sauna facilities.
Facilities
The large lobby lounge gives you space to sit between sightseeing, meals, and bathing, with free Wi-Fi available throughout the lounge and all standard rooms. Free massage chairs and foot-massage machines are placed in relaxation corners, while a manga area gives you something quiet to enjoy during your free time.
The shop carries Shinshu soba, nozawana pickles, local sake, regional sweets, and other Nagano souvenirs. Postal delivery service is also available for selected purchases.
You can enjoy karaoke in reservable rooms, play table tennis when the space is operating, or use the large convention and banquet halls for group events. The hotel includes seven banquet and meeting spaces, including the 400-square-metre Azumino buffet and convention hall.
A coin laundry on the second floor includes two washing machines and two dryers and operates from 7:00 to 23:00. Laundry detergent is available separately. Vending machines, designated smoking rooms, a multipurpose toilet, elevators, and winter ski and snowboard lockers are also available.
Free outdoor parking is located in front of the hotel. All accommodation rooms are non-smoking, with smoking limited to the designated areas inside the building.
Activities
Use the hotel as your starting point for the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. Ogizawa Station is around 20 minutes away by car and around 30 minutes by local bus. From there, mountain transport carries you towards Kurobe Dam, Murodo, the Tateyama Ropeway, and the alpine landscapes between Nagano and Toyama.
During spring, you can travel through the towering snow walls of the Alpine Route. Summer brings mountain walking, Kurobe Dam’s sightseeing water discharge, and outdoor activities beside the lakes. Autumn colours the highlands and nearby valleys, while winter opens the region for skiing and snowboarding.
Lake Kizaki is around ten minutes away by car. You can enjoy canoeing, boating, fishing, cycling, and time beside the water, depending on seasonal operating conditions.
The Omachi Mountain Museum is around 15 minutes away and introduces you to the wildlife, climbing history, and natural environment of the Northern Alps. Alps Azumino National Government Park is around 20 minutes away, while Daio Wasabi Farm and the museums of Azumino can also be reached by car.
In winter, Kashimayari Ski Resort and other mountain areas around Omachi and Hakuba provide snow-sport options within driving distance. Ski and snowboard lockers are available when you return.
Additional Features
Check-in begins at 15:00, and check-out is by 10:00. Reception temporarily closes from 23:00 to 5:00, apart from emergency support.
JR Shinano-Omachi Station is around 15 minutes away by local bus or taxi. From the Omachi Onsen-kyo bus stop, you can walk to the hotel in around three minutes. A hotel shuttle is not available.
When you arrive by car, the journey from the Azumino Interchange takes around 40 minutes. Snow and ice can affect local roads during winter, so winter tyres or suitable chains are essential in colder conditions.
