Japan Mountain Vacations and Getaways

Very nice hotel! Comfortable rooms that are very clean. The breakfast buffet and dinner buffet were excellent and well worth the add on fee. The onsen is nice but a bit small and they should leave the onsen open till 10 am in the morning so you can get breaky they take a last soak before 11 am checkout. Stayed in summer so the rates were very reasonable. They had construction going but the improved rooms were fantastic. There is a ski field right next door and you can ski right up to the hotel and they have ski lockers. If I skied I’d stay there. It is out of the way so you need a car, there is a bus but I highly suggest wheels. Overall very happy with my three nights there fishing the local rivers.

Rusutsu is enormous. The property layout is a puzzle, and while the amenities like the newly renovated onsen are a great perk, having to walk across the massive property to access 2 different elevators to get to rooms from the parking lot took away from the experience. The staff were exceptional but not expecting the attached theme park / merry go round inside the hotel made this an experience I would not book again. There is also a monorail connecting to the Westin across the street.

Rusutsu is enormous. The property layout is a puzzle, and while the amenities like the newly renovated onsen are a great perk, having to walk across the massive property to access 2 different elevators to get to rooms from the parking lot took away from the experience. The staff were exceptional but not expecting the attached theme park / merry go round inside the hotel made this an experience I would not book again. There is also a monorail connecting to the Westin across the street.