Yakushima Green Hotel

It’s a nice hotel with spacious grounds, a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and a traditional onsen. The rooms are comfortable and clean but have a slightly retro design that feels a bit dated. The staff is very friendly and helpful. I would not recommend having breakfast at the hotel - it’s not great and quite expensive. You’ll find better options in the nearby town.

Nice older but comfortable hotel, located on the East Coast of Yakushima. Great kaiseki dinners, using fresh local ingredients like Yakushima flying fish. Shout out to Mark in the restaurant, who provided very good and attentive service.

I stayed here in 2011 for the first time and revisited in 2016 and 17. Each stay was that GREAT, and I specifically would like to appreciate the desk manager for helping me open my suit case (forgot a key back at home then lol ) in 2017!

Staff are world class going above and beyond to assist. They also made sure hiking, logistic, meal plans are all organised. Rooms with a sea view is worth the price!

The hotel makes it a point to keep track of their guests by asking about their hiking plans and advising guests to give it a call if coming back late. They also offer advise on the status of the park based on which area the guests are heading. Rooms are very clean and the bed is comfortable. We stayed in the wing facing the coast which offers magnificent views. The bath onsite is basic and only has a very shallow pool. A very basic senso. Location is very convenient and near the airport and there is a very simple grocery store directly across. What really makes it memorable for me was from the back, one can take a stroll down to the coast and walk along the rocky tidal pool during low tide.

We spent three nights here and were mostly satisfied with the experience. They offer a good range of rooms and we selected an ocean view. The view was great but you can only open the window about 6cm. It would have been really nice to open the window wider as it was warm-ish and there was no a/c available at this time. The staff were really wonderful, though. They were always helpful, knew who we were, gave great information, were flexible and always always warm and welcoming. ||The television has one English language channel though the volume is limited which makes it difficult to hear. The internet, at least on our floor, was really slow and even loading Facebook required waiting. The room was a nice size but the towels were small, bright yellow and cheap. The onsen was shallow - suggest you try the place next door with the hot rocks. There are several restaurants within a 5 minute walk. The hotel is about 20 minutes walk from the ferry terminal (we took a taxi). ||I don’t know what other options are available. The Green Hotel seems about the best you could expect here. We weren’t unhappy but there was nothing, other than the staff, to rave about.

We stayed 3 nights in a Japanese tatami style room. The futons were very comfy. View of the ocean from the balcony was beautiful. We had both breakfast and dinner at the hotel and had a different selection of local seafood and meat for each meal. Everything was very tasty. Would definitely recommend. Place is definitely very old style Japanese with “Rules “, so be sure you’re rate comes with the meals if you want them or negotiate it when checking in otherwise you won’t be eating at the hotel as they haven’t prepared the meals in advance for you. Enjoy!!!

The hotel comes with big, clean and nicely decorated rooms (we had a japanese style room). We were lucky to have a pitoresque view on to a beautiful garden and the sea. The breakfast is rich and tasteful - both western and japanese (what I'd recommend!) and also dinner was delicious, again with a view on the sea. |The staff was very friendly, warm and welcoming. although their english was very basic, they helped us with every situation. |The hotel is convenient located near a bus stop and on the other side of the road there is a small convenient store too. If you go for hiking, the hotel provides bento for breakfast and lunch! |It was a pleasure to stay there - and we will come back again in summer 2015!