14 Guesthouse Mt.Fuji in Fuji

I stayed in the twin room with my friend during our trip to Japan for 3 days. I am used to staying in hostels and I was a bit disappointed. We arrived 2 hours before our check in and we thought it was possible to leave our luggage at the reception like I was used to but I was wrong. The building itself doesn’t have a reception. They use a lobby from another hotel nearby (2 streets from this hostel) so we had to go see if it was possible to leave our luggage before our check in but it was actually close… here in Fuji the stores open really late. The hotel which uses the reception as a lobby for our hostel opens at 3 PM each day so it was frustrating to go to a train station to then rent lockers for our bags. When we finally checked in, they give you a code to enter your room and it’s a nice room for the price we pay. All bathrooms are clean, the kitchen is really good (they have a microwave, stove, refrigerators) and the showers are really well set as well. For women, they have separate rooms for them so that’s nice too. All the rooms come with air conditioning. The rooftop is okay, there are no chairs or anything but the view is amazing (if you’re lucky enough to not have any clouds in front of the mountain). Something to keep in mind is that the towels for showering are 200 yen. As for the location, I wouldn’t recommend this place if you’re not willing to take 30 mins buses each time to get to the train station at 30 degrees (we went in September). Honestly, we thought it was a ghost city because all of the shops and restaurants/bars are closed most of the time. If you really want to take pictures of Mt. Fuji, I suggest you book something in Fujinomiya instead, since the city is more lively.

There was a picture of the room on the screen when I made the reservation. It was not a picture of the room I reserved. It should be stated more clearly that it was a mixed dormitory room. The guests did not understand that it was mixed either. It was difficult to explain to the foreign guests.