4S STAY Awaikeda Ekimae

The accommodation is just 2min on foot from Awaikeda Station. Room and facilities have been very clean. The Japanese style room was very spacious and comfortable. In the front / basement is a restaurant where you can have dinner. The restaurant serves mainly regional game. It's delicious. The accommodation can prepare a sandwich for breakfast which one picks up from the fridge in the morning. However, given the price, breakfast from a convenience store may be a good alternative.

This is a mixture of a traditional ryokan and a modern hotel, but better. Located in the middle of the island or the fork of the road for most traveling to other places, the hotel is perfect for passerby's not just because is next to the JR Awa-Ikeda Station, but because it also has a restaurant on the first floor and a good one at that! The staff and the managers of the inn and the restaurants are beyond professional and very fun. We arrived a bit late in the day but they waited for us and were so accommodating when we were desperate for dinner that despite one of our travelers being a vegan and one a pescatarian, they made one of the most amazing curry meals with only vegetables for them. The food options were amazing and they even sell souvenirs that come from the local area. The check-in process was super easy and the check-out even easier. We just had to leave everything in order, though I missed saying goodbye to the staff at the restaurant since we left before they opened for service. We had the best dinner there in the four days we stayed. The location of the place is in the center of town, near the Tobacco Museum, which we didn't get a chance to go because we had other tours in the area and our schedules were packed. There are tons of shops and good food, also a public bath house within walking distance. We went shopping in the area and were surprised to find so many local items being sold just around the corner from the place. Everyone in town is super friendly and amazing and the food was very good. The tatami mats appear to be brand new, very firm and super comfortable for sleeping. Our room was spacious and very beautiful, even the chandelier was very authentically Japanese in design. The bathrooms and showers were shared but they were immaculate. They even had a shower and changing room for women only, which helped a lot. Everything was very clean and the entire place just like the entire town smelled like Japanese cedar wood.

We had a very spacious room and the location is great, just outside the local train station.

Great guest house in the quiet village of Awa Ikeda. From here you can take a train Oboke and then bus to the vine bridge, peeing boy, onsen and Scarecrow Village. These will be two separate day trips. Yukai, who worksite cafe , speaks great English and helped us figure out us schedule. Food in restaurant is great. We especially like the lunch sets! Grocery and hardware store within walking distance. Also a local Sake brewery you can tour! Amazing 3 night stay! Would highly recommend.

Stayed 3 nights unfortunately the cafe was closed due to a private party on the first night and closed on Monday. But the night we did eat there it was good. Spacious Japanese style room and very good shared showers and toilets.