The building stands beside Kutchan Station. AID Japan Group bought it and took it back to the shell. It is being rebuilt as a clean, affordable place to sleep for people who come to Niseko for the mountain.
Forty rooms. No grand lobby, no long list of extras. What we are spending the money on is the part you actually use: a warm, quiet, spotless room, and a front door one minute from the platform.
A budget hotel that says so is easier to trust than one pretending otherwise. So we will tell you what is here and what is not, and photograph the rooms at their real size.
Work is under way now. Here is what the finished building will give you.
All 40 rooms stripped back and finished new — beds, bathrooms, floors, fittings.
Heating and insulation rebuilt for a Kutchan winter, not an ordinary one.
Fast Wi-Fi wired through the whole building, rooms and common areas alike.
New surfaces throughout, chosen so they are easy to keep spotless every day.
The finished building, photographed honestly, once the work is done.
The same group runs The 1898 Niseko, the luxury hotel a few minutes away. Two hotels in one town, at two price points.
The price is different. The standard of cleanliness and straight dealing is the same one, applied to both.
3-1-11 Kita 1 Jonishi, Kutchan, Abuta District, Hokkaido
044-0051