The hotel is very close to the Sendai station and it is surrounded by restaurants and a department store. It has a very good Japanese breakfast and it offers free ramen each night around 10PM at the breakfast area. The hotel is clean but we were not able to access wifi in the lobby area. The hotel staff was also very helpful in providing us a map to parks where we can have the best view of the cherry blossoms when we visited at the end of April 2012.

The Sendai station close by is full with fabulous sweets and food vendors. If time allows, take the JR Senseki line to Matsushima Bay from the Sendai station. It is well worth the 30 minute train ride to see the beautiful pine tree islands.

We did not have the chance to even step into the hotel room on check-in day; 11 March 2010 as the earthquake struck before we got the hotel keys. Despite that, during the next 2 days taking shelter at the hotel lobby, the hotel staff were all so professional, extremely patient and took great efforts to make sure all guests who were stuck at the lobby have enough blankets to keep warm / have sufficient food & water and all common areas including the 2 toilets were spotless at all times..

My husband even witnessed the hotel staff queueing at the Family Mart for more than an hour to get food for the hotel guests! Selfless behaviour during the such hard times and this hotel deserves strong business support ... hopefully in the very near future when restoration works are completed and life is back to normal in Tohoku/Sendai.

You can see hotel building once you exit from JR station, just look at right side from the bridge. Superb location.

Spacious room with interesting plan, I like it! The best for this hotel is hot bath tub w/ sauna room at top floor. The atmosphere there just like in some nice spa, dim light w/ soothing sound, and yesss, Tsubaki shampoo too :) It was not crowded. I went at late night, and found no one in bathroom.

Best of the best is free ramen served at cafe near lobby at 10 PM everyday, w/ free softdrink. I don't know whether this promotion had expired or not, you can check in hotel's website. The only bad point is that there was only 2 computers provided in the lobby, and the internet speed was too slow!

I recommend this place for any Sendai trip, luxury stay in a budget!