Can be a bit crowded if full, but then it can become one happy community, so it's not really a bad thing.

Very clean hostel with good facilities. Michael and his wife are very welcoming and offer a wealth of information for exploring the area. Excellent location, within walking distance to two local train stations, Gekkouji, and Mt Fuji. Bus trips can be booked and start at Mt. Fuji Station for exploring the Oshino and Yamanakako areas, including the Subaru Line up the side of Mt. Fuji. Plenty of good traditional restaurants around, as well as convenience stores. The iconic Chureito Pagoda is one local train stop away.

Stayed in January 2023

The japanese wall is so thin, and not sound proof.

Nice staffs and facilities

Stayed in December 2022

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it was nice and cozy with friendly staff that recommended us an awesome dinner place :-) we had a restful night and were rejuvenated for the next day!! thank you to the staff for their kindness!

Stayed in December 2022

It was quiet and they had a nice little area with a toaster, microwave, and a water heater. A great view of my Fuji too. The couple who owned the hostel are friendly and caring.

Stayed in November 2022

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Fantastic hosts who made the experience incredible, amazing home-away feeling in this clean and cozy place in a super cute town super close to Mt Fuji - highly recommended! we will definitely be back! thanks for the great few days!!

Stayed in November 2022

The staff is very kind and helpful! Also I enjoyed the free coffee and the beds are very cozy! The location is also very good, by foot it’s only 15 min from Mt Fuji station and around 20 min to the Arakurayama Sengen Park

Stayed in November 2022

Perhaps if traveling in a large group, having a larger table to eat around would be appreciated. However, larger tables are available in the private rooms, and the smaller tables dotted around the property are perfect for a solo travel, and for optimizing the available space.

I was looking for an affordable, central location where I could explore the Five Lakes area, and this more than fit the bill! Mr. Michael and Kazuko-san were very kind as well as willing to share their knowledge of the area and give recommendations for spots of interest. The staff went above and beyond in assisting me with some personal travel issues that arose during my time there, and I'm very grateful. Everyone was very intent on providing a clean and comfortable place to land; I sincerely appreciated and enjoyed my time there!

Stayed in September 2022

The management is super kind and generous for upgrading my room to private room since there are few people when I came. 😊

Stayed in June 2022

Facilities are everything you expect from a hostel, but it’s Michael and his family who make the stay 1000% better. Amazing people!

Stayed in May 2022

Absolutely neurotic vibe. I was blasted with over a dozen email notifications about messages through Booking.com as information about the property’s lack of flexibility was repeated multiple times. Hearing the owner directing staff ahead of morning cleanups kept that tone, and the walls are absolutely plastered with multilingual signage about things not to do. While I sympathize, it hinders the hospitality experience. Chill, dude. Private rooms have paper thin walls, so if there’s a snorer in the next room over, as was the case for me, you’re SOL.

Good value for a private room, public transport proximity (4m walk to Gekkouji station), walking distance to local attractions (Fujiyoshida town 5m, Chureito pagoda 25m). Helpful desk staff.

Stayed in December 2024

There are too many beds in the room and just a copule of bathrooms. The staff tries to do the best to keep the place clean, but with all those people it’s easy that it becomes dirty very quickly. There’s no space for backpacks in the room….the location is perfect, there’s laundry and you can have a towel for 200yen, but it’s not the most comfortable accomodation

Stayed in November 2024

- not worth the price, toooooo expensive - the lady owner is a dragon, I think it hurts her tongue to say hello and thank you - there are rules EVERYWHERE, they treat you like a baby (more than 10 posters in the tiny toilet to tell you to wipe your butt, flush the toilet, close the door…) it’s annoying - no real common area, just the cheapest ikea stools in the hallway - no room for luggage in your room so everyone’s luggage and bags are everywhere on the floor - there are too many beds in the room they are like glued to each other it’s so inconvenient, they really wanted to make money - they won’t store your luggage after checkout or you have to pay (of course they love money here) nd if you stay after checkout they will charge you (even in the hallway, it is written on one of the 1000000 rules) In conclusion, for the price go to the hostels near the train station kawaguchiko :)

Clean and confortable

Stayed in September 2024

The place can be a bit cramped with only 2 showers and 2 sinks for the amount of guests. No one in reception after 8 so no check in available after this time (and many many other rules...)

The place was clean and the staff was very kind. Mr. Michael can be a bit rude (so if you are looking for Japanese hospitality this is not the place). The Japanese style room was cozy and we had our own fridge and microwave (showers and bathrooms were shared)

Stayed in May 2024

No window. Room was right next to small sitting/kitchen area, where you could hear everything and the lockers for the shared rooms are right outside. Quiet hours are midnight to 6am, but at 4am, there were people using the lockers and having loud conversations. Be aware there might not be space to store your luggage when you check out.

Cheap and clean. Short walk from train station, and not far to walk to Chureito pagoda.

Stayed in April 2024

Staff was extremely authoritarian and not so friendly. Very (very small) common parts. The room was very very narrow.

Great location Good value for price but would only recommend for very low budget.

Stayed in March 2024

The hostel is really cramped (as in there isn't even space in the room for your bags), and there is no common space other than a few stools arranged in the hallways. The staff are kind of crazy, I got almost 20 emails from them asking me the exact arrival time, which I don't know, I booked this two weeks in advance, why is it so important to know?

I can't think of anything positive to say, it was meh at best. You can technically see Mt Fuji from the windows, but you can literally see Mt. Fuji from anywhere in the area.

Stayed in March 2024

i booked for the weekend, checked in on saturday everything was well and on the sunday everybody around me were leaving checking out and the owner literally came into dorm and said ''well yeah, you'll be the only one who stays here today.'' and i said ''you mean the dorm?'' and he said ''no i close down the hostel today. it was right after you booked it. this is my bday today.'' etc. i said okay because i am an easygoing person and didn't know how to react but it was not very nice to let a customer know this situation on the exact day. if they let me know this first i'd not stay there on sunday. that day i tried to search for a new hostel/hotel but they were so expensive because it was a weekend and last minute and fuji area also it snowed and i was not able to go back to tokyo so i stayed there in the huge hostel facetiming all night my loved ones to not feel in danger in an area that i have no control of that i don't know at all was very very horrible. booking staff was also not able to help me. hostel owner did not even apologize or said simply sorry claiming it's a safe hostel. which was very very rude after what they put me through they ruined my whole night not sleeping and feeling anxious at all times and all the noises coming around and some guys's screams closeby in the street. they rejected my compensation whereas i did not even ask for it booking.com staff did and they rejected saying those meaningless stuff because yes it can be safe for you that you lived there for your whole life or maybe last ten years. you know it's safe but i am a tourist that doesn't know the town,any japanese and i am a girl who mostly even avoids staying alone in hotel rooms and stays in hostels to feel safe. and it was not a hotel room. it was a huge hostel which had lots of rooms and areas that i had no control of.

the ladies in the lobby seemed very nice and helpful at all times. i'd give this place a good review if the owner was not there basically. it's an old but cleaned well mainted hostel. (i suggest to stay in a ladies dorm if you are a female for avoiding guys going around in their boxers. it's not hostel's fault but i guess having no one in the reception after 8 pm also gives the customers the idea of freedom at all costs knowing the fact that they won't be in trouble whatever they do.)complimentary drinks were nice too in the lobby/common area.

Stayed in February 2024

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overall good vibes, the staff was nice, the rest of the guys in the room were laud and bothered us. cant blame the place.

Stayed in November 2023

We had a private room so I can’t say anything about the dorm. We had a sleepless night, you can’t rent this room as a private one. Just to be clear, the room itself is nice and the bed is cozy. But the noise and the location of the room in the hostel is a joke. People don’t care about the quiet hours from 00-06, which are very late as well. Walls are very thin and people were drying their hair in the middle of the night but the main point is that there were constantly people walking all night. In the room you hear everything, you feel the bumps of the steps and are not able to sleep at all. Quiet hours are not enforced at all. If you’re the one setting the rules in your accommodation you’re also the one responsible for enforcing them to value your guests. Doesn’t change anything that there’s nobody at reception during the night, maybe that needs to change. Additionally the room walls are so thin that you hear people snorring from the dorm. None of my hostels and other accommodations in Japan and other countries was as loud as this one, this is no way of renting a room as a private one. From scrolling through the other reviews I know that I’m not the first one having that problem.

Room quite nice, but no window.

Stayed in October 2023

NO SOUND INSOLATION! Didn’t sleep my first night because of how noisy the other guest were… the quiet hours were not enforced. Also, no window in the room. The other nights were fine.

Extremely nice service! Nicely sized room and decent feel. Shared amenities are fine.

Stayed in May 2023

Too many beds packed in a very small dormitory room . Because of this, i hurt my back very bad when getting out of the lower bed, and hitting the upper bed edge , because it is so low( the cleaning staff witnessed the event, actually i got out fast from the bed because of them, i was tired and tried to take a nap but couldn't because the cleaning women were laughing and shouting very loud in the room, for 30 minutes non stop, like they were small children) That hit requires medical investigations. When telling this to the property they were very rude and didn't care. I have seen another person hurting his leg by hitting a ladder, the dormitory room is just inhumanely small. Taking such a full back hit in a bed edge can have lifetime consequences, but they did not care, they ridiculed me.

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Stayed in July 2023

Too cramped, less space than in a prison in the dormitory room! I hurt my back while getting out of the bed because the lower beds have horrible small height space. Worse hostel ever!

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Stayed in July 2023

Too cramped, dormitory rooms with less space than in a prison. Two bathrooms for 25 people. In the dormitory rooms the lower beds have too small height, i hurt my back very bed while getting out. The owner doesn't look japanese, it is perhaps a greedy american Worse hostel ever! I should sue them for hurting my back!

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Stayed in July 2023

Rooms were a little cramped and often had a bad stuffy smell- lacking fresh air. The owner was pretty arrogant but luckily his wife was welcoming and hospitable. Silent hours lasting between 12am and 6am can be bad if you’re hoping to climb fuji early the following morning. Towels not provided.

It was clean and had free hot drink facilities.

Stayed in July 2023