Meitoya So

Zao Onsen

Meitoya So is one of the Takamiya group's hotels. Takamiya Group is the most well known hotel groups in Yamagata.

Meitoya itself has the amazing indoor/outdoor Onsen but they offer all Takamiya guests the "Yumeguri Ticket" which allows you to use all their group's Onsen facilities in Zao including Hotel Lucent, Rurikura, Hotel Hammond, Hotel Jurin and three public Onsen bathes in Zao. Try a different onsen every day of the week!

All the rooms are non-smoking. The traditional Japanese rooms pretty spacious has a very relaxing feel.

Breakfast is a buffet style and dinner is also available. The beautiful Yamagata beef Sukiyaki or SyabuSyabu is a "MUST" to try!


Breakfast Available
Gourmet Restraunt onsite
Hotel
Japanese style rooms
Onsen
Private shower, bath, basin & toilet.
Table & chairs in room

Japanese room with en-suite bathroom can accommodate up to four guests
 
Rates from 15,000 yen per person per night including breakfast
 
Saturdays & Public holidays holiday surcharges will apply
Child rate discount will apply
Long stay discount will apply to 3 or more nights stay
 
There are other room types with extra charges. Please ask.

 

2nd February

Thanks for the bookings you made.  There were no problems with any of the bookings.  Your access instructions matched ones I had worked out in December.  Finally home last weekend after visiting Sado Island and Takayama (no skiing).

Meitoya So was good. Similar to our previous stay in 2018.  The rooms are good, the view outside was great, food was good. The staff although not english speaking, were as helpful as they could be.  Its location is ok,. Recommended as a place to stay.

We negotiated with the ski hire shop to be able to leave boots and skis there each night, so  we could walk there in the morning in hiking boots.  The previous stay, the hotel had a bus that could drop us at various locations in the village, but this no longer runs.  If you had to carry all your ski gear, the ropeway is quite a walk especially if you were walking in ski boots.  In our case we were able to ski our way across.

Zao Onsen is very much a Japanese resort and very accommodating to people like us.  Lack of non japansese makes a nice change compared to say Shiga.

We will probably be back in the years ahead. 

Cheers
John and Kaylene

Meitoya So offers free picku up & drop off at the Zao bus terminal. There is also free scheduled transfers to/from the slopes.

It is less than 5 minutes walk to the nearest slope then you can ski down to the Chuo Ropeway.

 
Zao Onsen is famous for the snow monsters! You can ski & snowboard down the courses along the snow monsters. The view is so amazing! There are 25 courses with 41 chairlifts including a couple of ropeways and a gondola.
 
Zao Onsen is located in the Yamagata region. It is about 2 hours 40 minutes from Tokyo to Yamagata station by Shinkansen (bullet train). There is the public bus from Yamagata station to Zao Onsen which takes 30 minutes. We can help you plan yor transfer form the airport or anywhere in Japan.