Kogakuro is located in the Myoko Akakura village where you can walk to the closest chairlift within 7
minutes. Restaurants and shops are under a few minutes walk.
Kogakuro has a very nice lounge area with an open fire. You can sit and relax with some drinks after
skiing/boarding! There is also the indoor/outdoor Onsen.
The rooms are Japanese style with futon beds. Some of the rooms have en-suite bathrooms.
Main building - Japanese room with toilet & washbasin accommodating 4 guests
Rates from 11,500 yen per person per night including breakfast
Private ensuites rooms availble. Please enquire about extra charge.
Late Feb 2017
Kogakuro Hotel at Akakura Onsen was good. It is in need of some reburbishment but completely comfortable and clean with a lovely host, Meiko. Good breakfast available, we had a Japanese room which could sleep 3 people, and they have an inside/outside onsen which is clean. The outside bath is covered preventing the fresh snow flakes falling into the bath while bathing, which I like! They gave a nice bar with a real fireplace which is not often found in Japan ski hotels, good for apres ski drinks. Hisae and her team did a great job to organise our ski trip to Myoko Kogen
Sally
- Closest chairlift - Kumado #3 Quad Akakura Onsen Ski Area - 7 minutes walk
- Restaurants & bars - 3 minutes
- Train station - 10 minutes by hotel's shuttle
Myoko is in the Niigata prefecture and consits of Akakura, Seki Onsen, Suginohara & Ikenotaira. Other reosrts close by include Nozawa Onsen and Shiga Kogen. The main village is the Akakura area. You can travel by the mountain shuttle bus to go skiing and snowboarding in the other areas. We can arrange the Myoko Big 4 lift passes which are the common ski passes for these four resorts.
If it is possible to have one area that tickes all the boxes it is Myoko. Firsty, it has excellent snow, but also a varitey of runs to suit all levels. It is not a westernised like some Japanese resorts have become and still retains its Japanese culture, yet it still has enough English services such as English speaking lessons & day care and some western style accommodation options. It is not a big town, but there are plenty of resteraunts and bars to chose from.
It is about 90 minutes from Tokyo to Nagano station by Shinkansen bullet train and change to a local train which takes about 40 minutes to Myoko Kogen Station. We can arrange a pick up and drop off for Myoko Kogen station. But the easiest way to get there would be the direct airport transfers.