Stayed here June 2010. My extended family all speak Japanese except me which made things very difficult.

The actual hotel was fairly average on the whole, nothing home to write about.

The one thing that is memorable about this whole experience is the gym. I am fairly into the gym (even on holiday) so I enquired about the possibility to use the Hotel Gym facilities. Apparently the hotel gym doubles as a big proper commercial gym so I was in luck? The price was PRETTY damn high for one day, something like USD$10-20 for a day pass I can't remember. The actual gym itself had a pool, mini dance-hall, lots of machines, cardio machines and TINY free weights area. Naturally being Japan there were not many guys there who used the free weights / knew what they were doing there. Another funny custom in Asia is that you need to bring a towel EVERYWHERE in the gym to keep it clean. Fair enough but I sweat more at my home uni gym and I never wipe anything nor does anyone expect me to. More worried about the actual weights themselves. I guess the Japanese philosophy is not about "smashing weights and getting pb's" but about being "courteous and making zero noise/frills" in the gym. Ain't going to get big that way!

Off topic but since the gym was actually in the hotel I thought it would be relevant. The staff weren't bad though to be fair, I thought it was funny at reception they were selling all these weird Japanese brand protein/supplements. They sold this "protein water" which I thought would be funny/interesting to try so I did but afterwards when I got my Mum to translate the bottle I found out there are was only 5g of protein in the whole bottle lol.