Bosenkan

Beautiful hotel with Japanese outside garden. Good location with everything around by walking distance. Spacious outdoor parking, friendly staff and beautiful room with the view. Public bath was not possible to use because of tattoos, however we were able to rent private stone bath ( 45min - 2000yen). It was beautiful experience and I would really recommend it.

The big room, pretty scenery and free shuttle bus

The timing for breakfast was too early at 8am.

Bosenkan is a well design old hotel with good facilities -onsen is on basement floor with outside pool is very good and open 24 hrs - with some break cleaning hours -room is big and comfortable, we have river view and close to railway track that we feel ok with train running sound occasionally that is ok. -breakfast is traditional Japanese set that change every day. -they has very big parking space next to hotel, so people who plan to drive will be very happy -all staff is very helpful and can communicate in English fluently. In overall, Gero is small town good for traveller who want a relax and real traditional Japanese trip. We also took half day to Takayama and feel unimpressed as a lot of westerner tourist all around town with everything expensive.

before my stay, I read many guest reviews about old hotel and cigarettes smell that quite discourage us a bit, but when we enter our room on 6th floor and stay for 3 nights, I can say that those negative review was too much negative.

The outside onsen was beautiful. Sleeping on the floor was a nice experience.

It looked like it needed a renovation or at least a good clean-up. The walls were dirty and the fridge was very old, noisy and yellow. The first room we got the air con was so loud we told the staff and they were kind enough to change our room.