Grand Park Hotel Okubiwako Makino, Takashima

Grand Park Hotel Okubiwako Makino - A 3.5-star lakefront hotel with private beach access, ski shuttles, and mountain-view rooms

This 3.5-star lakefront property features a private beach and offers rooms with mountain or lake views, free WiFi, and private bathrooms with electronic bidet toilets. The onsite Restaurant Chikubu serves both Western and Japanese meals for lunch and dinner with a beachfront location. Recreational amenities include ecotours, hiking/biking trails, and a free ski shuttle to Hakodate-yama Ski Resort and Kunizakai Kogen Snow Park, both 20 minutes away by car. The hotel provides ski passes, a 24-hour front desk, luggage storage, and drinks vending machines. Rooms contain flat-screen TVs, electric kettles with tea bags, safes, and some feature seating areas. Certain rooms at Grand Park Hotel Okubiwako Makino offer cherry blossom views from April through windows facing planted cherry trees. The property is near Hiyoshi Shrine (0.5 miles) and Makino Kogen Onsen Sarasa, with Lake Biwa and Chikubu Island visible from the area.

Pros

Free ski shuttle service to Hakodate-yama Ski Resort and Kunizakai Kogen Snow Park

Private beach access and beachfront dining at Restaurant Chikubu

Rooms feature electronic bidet toilets and cherry blossom views during April

24-hour front desk and complimentary WiFi throughout the property

Cons

The property enforces an 11:00 PM curfew

Nagoya is 62 miles from the hotel