Elan Lodge Akakura

Terrific location Lodge managers were so helpful and cooked up a fabulous breakfast each morning. Drove us to the local supermarket for some supplies on the first day. Christo helped transport our group of 8 to different ski locations and was so accommodating to our needs. Highly recommend this place.

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Great space for our group of 8. Plenty of bedrooms and bathrooms and space to chill. 2 min walk to the Ginrei Chairlift at Akakura Onsen and to the main drag of town. Large kitchen for cooking our dinners when we didn’t want to eat out and spacious dining room. Cosy TV room for movie nights. “The Boys” Pablo and Clemmy were very cheerful, polite, and helpful with any questions we had. They were diligent with their duties such as snow clearing in the mornings and the breakfasts they prepared for us were great: Pancake Day, French Toast day, Omelette day. The Private Onsen: at first we were hesitant of bathing in the hot mountain water given the (desired) sulphery smell. However, once we tried it, there was a Onsen queue every night. Im 6ft 2 and could almost swim in the deep onsen bath. -Manager/Owner Chris was so helpful organising our bags to be sent to Osaka for us through the ‘Black Cat’ service and also organising a shuttle for us to Nagano station to make our Bullet train on time: Thankyou!

- Tv Room gets a bit cramped with a big group, think it should be swapped/repurposed with the sitting room. - A few of the heaters in the bedrooms were a bit temperamental, having to switch to the backup Oil Column heaters which were not the best. - Whilst I see that staff are essential at the Lodge for snow clearing - and they were nice to have around - it should be stated in the Booking page that there are staff on-site.