Hotel Reflects the Hostess' s Personable Character

Otaki Hot Spring is located between Lake Towada and Hachimantai, and is a convenient sightseeing base. There are sightseeing spots such as "Mine Land Osarizawa" around Otaki Hot Spring where you can learn the history of a mine, and the "Hokuroku Holy Annuciation Church" which was built in the Meiji era.
View of the Yoneshiro-gawa River from a guest room		Yakushi Shrine and the headspring at Otaki Hot Spring

Although there were 21 hotels and inns in the golden age, there are nine now. I visited Hotel Senpa. The 80 year-old hotel is very ordinary and bare of extravagant ornaments. The hostess, Ms Eiko Mikami, kindly serves you and more than covers all your needs. I do not know if this is the reason or not, but they have an overwhelmingly number of regular visitors.

Bath for men			Guest room facing the Yoneshiro-gawa River

Eiko herself cooks for the visitors. She says that she is good at "country dishes" such as pot cooked dishes including kiritanpo, sandfish with soybean paste, broiled sweet fish with salt and homemade pickles, and she appears to be taking it easy.

Ms Mikami, Hotel Senpa hostess			Entrance, Hotel Senpa

［Medicinal benefit］ Medical treatment of a wound after an operation, women's disease, rheumatism, neuralgia, etc.

［Hotel Senpa］ 1, Kuwahara, Junisho, Odate-shi, 018-5601 Tel: 81-186-52-3508 Charge: 8,000 yen - 13,000 yen (with 2 meals)

［Access］ Take JR Tohoku Shinkansen, change at Morioka Station to the JR Hanawa Line rapid train for Otaki Onsen Station. It is 7 minutes on foot from Otaki Onsen Station to Hotel Senpa.