Iiyama – Gistihús

Yin-Hsieh Taívan

Owner is welcoming and helpful. Everywhere in the house is clean. Room is comfortable. Very homey hostel. Not really walkable during winter but free pick-up from Iiyama station is available.

John Ástralía

Great Stay - very friendly attentive staff. Always polite. Drove us to the train when we sould have cought the bus.

Mia Ástralía

the host family are so welcome and helpful, shuttle bus to ski field was provided daily, easy location to nearby restaurants and shop! the place is so clean and cosy. will definitely come back !

Elizabeth Singapúr

Takeshi-san replies to messages promptly, pick up is easy and he drops off at slopes. He went out of his way to help and support! Will definitely stay again and highly recommend!

JIE Kína

The FTM is very warm, and this kind of forest cabin is the dream of people from southern China for the snowy winter season. The hotel is right next to the ski slopes and even within walking distance.There are good restaurants right next to the hotel which is very convenient. Nick and Karina is from Australia. They are very friendly and nice. My family had great help with transportation to Nozawa Onsen and to the Shinkansen station from Nick & Karina. Three nights of stay is a wonderful experience.

Vincent Japan

Basic hotel but very good location near the ski slopes and good breakfast. Tatami room was reasonably large and comfy for 3 people.

Peter Ástralía

The rooms were very clean and comfortable with good beds.

Barbara Bretland

Very friendly, family run pension. The staff are extremely friendly and inviting. It is very comfortable and the dinners and breakfasts are delicious, home-made Japanese dishes. Warm and good wifi. Excellent shared bathroom facilities plus a bathing area.

Sarah Ástralía

Checkin wasn’t till 4pm but we wanted to check out the Iiyama snow festival so they allowed us to leave our bags inside the hotels hallway. The hotel is above a Korean restaurant with a little door off to the side to enter. It was a great location with a bus stop to nozawa onsen and madarao right outside and a short walk to the castle park (which is where the snow festival was) and only 10mins easy walk from the train station. We went to nozawa onsen for a day trip after checkout and they allowed us to leave our luggage there while we were away. They have an area downstairs for skis/ snowboard it’s kinda like an open air (but enclosed) laundry area. They do have a couple of washing machines so I’m sure you could ask to use them. They had a communal hot water machine, microwave and fridge on the room level with the sinks. A 7 eleven is across the road and a huge drugstore is just a few doors down which has really good cheap snacks, drinks, alcohol, medicines etc. The owner is a (maybe alittle shy) Korean lady who used a translator (as we speak both English and easy Japanese and she speaks I think easy Japanese and Korean.) We got toothbrushes and tooth paste sachet thingo to brush our teeth.