Hotel Dengan bar di Prefektur Ehime, Jepang

The hotel is not close to Dogo Onsen street and you will need to drive or get a taxi if you want to go there. There are no restaurants or shops nearby the hotel. There is a walk nearby the hotel you can take which offers nice scenery in the woods. The hotel looks a bit dated particularly the bedrooms and the corridors. I asked for a quiet room facing the mountain instead of one facing a busy road and had to pay an additional 2200 yen. The hotel has a number of onsens and I like the outdoor ones best. The buffet dinner and breakfast offer good selection and I particularly like the dinner which offered nice teppanyaki beef and sushi. The hotel reception staff spoke very little English and the hotel did not reply to an email I sent them asking for transportation information to get to the hotel. There are buses near the hotel which go to Matsuyama and Imabari but they run infrequently.

Location is a short walk from Dogo onsen station. The experience was amazing, rooms were huge and I was surprised to have a staff member show us around the room and explain the amenities available. The amount of hospitality is above and beyond any we've experienced at other places and ryokans. They also have a very beautiful outdoor garden, onsen and geta (traditional Japanese wooden shoes) and yukata to wear around the premises.

從JR松山站乘電車5號線到道後温泉站下車，穿過商業街，就可以看到酒店。晚餐和早餐都是自助餐。驚喜的是，酒店內的小店竟然還賣Akoya的珍珠，桔子也是直銷的，還可以試吃，有多種味道，真的不錯。松山內的有軌電車，憑JRpass，都是免費乘坐。商業街口有個鍾，每逢整點，都會自動轉出小木偶人，很有趣。

Great clean option with many goodies for the Shimanami Kaido and a good cafe attached. (E.g. toothbrushes, ear plugs, etc...)