Nakano Hotels

Location: awesome: just next to the station. Direct access to the shopping mall adjacent (supermarket, restaurants).

We stayed here for our honeymoon 11 years ago and remembered it to be great so chose this hotel again recently for our Dec 2025 (2nights) pit stop.

This hotel sits somewhere between a budget and mid-range hotel. It has a nice reception area, good laundry, fresh clean guest rooms.

We had a wonderful stay here.

I’m adding to the 5 star reviews! Stayed here last night after a long journey, and they were fantastic!

Simple and nice hotel for travelers visiting Nagano. We were greeted with smiles as we entered the hotel. Staffs were very helpful.

The hotel lobby is on the fifth floor. There are shops and restaurants on other floors.

Good location just across the Nagano Station and has a Don Quijote attached to it and a Lawson kombini just outside the hotel.

Pros:
​Ideal Location: Just steps from Zenkoji Temple. Perfect for Hatsumode, especially since the hotel remains open through midnight.
​Great Service: The staff is quick and professional.

As other posts have said older styled hotel and rooms.
Service was fantastic and the hotel had the best bathroom of our trip. Breakfast was a good mix of Japanese and Western foods.

Convenient location as it’s across Nagano station. There’s a 7-11 next to the hotel. Also, there are 2 small malls — C one and Tokyu next to the hotel.

Dormy Inn Nagano was a wonderful place to stay during our trip to Nagano in February. The hotel is clean, easy to navigate, and had large spacious rooms compared to Tokyo.

We stayed at a hotel Courtyard in Nagano that was very conveniently located near the train station. The staff were friendly, welcoming, and helpful throughout our stay.

The hotel is easily accessible from Nagano Station. Perfect location if you will use the Shinkansen very frequently. The room has all the basic necessities by Japanese standards.

An atmospheric old inn of great charm! My room was a comfortable, well maintained and had great style. I loved the private onsen bath.

My husband and I stayed here 4 nights for our honeymoon, and we are so glad we did. The stay includes a private kaiseki dining experience for breakfast and dinner.

We had a fantastic 1 night stay at the mecure. I was able to get a last minute deal for a great price, and was still offered an upgrade with my accor membership.

Before booking, I want to give travelers a heads-up about staying in Nagano. Compared to Tokyo, Nagano is much more rural.

Lisa and her staff was amazing and welcoming as soon as we stepped in the door. Lisa and her staff will do absolutely everything to make your stay enjoyable memorable and comfortable.

Lisa and the Active Life team could not have been more welcoming! Lisa went out of her way to make our stay as seamless and comfortable as possible.

This place was amazing and we will return.
We had two rooms listed as the Grand Twin. The beds were comfortable and the rooms a decent size.

Absolutely loved this hotel! Top quality service and cleanliness. For the price and quality it is really unbeatable.

A lovely place to stay, run by a wonderful older couple who were more than happy to show you around or answer any questions you may have.

Absolutely the best ryokan food I have ever had in the whole Japan.
The food was so good, I actually miss it already.
I wish I could eat it again :)
Absolute amazing location to visit shrines.

I’m adding to the 5 star reviews! Stayed here last night after a long journey, and they were fantastic!

Simple and nice hotel for travelers visiting Nagano. We were greeted with smiles as we entered the hotel. Staffs were very helpful.

Wonderful dinner and breakfast.
A pleasant stay at this place.
We were so full and the lady was so kind to takeaway our dessert and made our bamboo shoot rice into onigiri.

This is probably the only inn in Japan that I.
Would stay again for the food. The meals were like fine dining made with local specialities in a creative way. Think apple baked with soup and cheese.

Stayed here for about 8 nights. The location was great. The room was smaller than it looks in pictures but it was still nice.

We had such a lovely trip for an extended family reunion, where we booked all of the rooms for the family. Azusa was very helpful in the preparation (via Insta chat).

This is a incredible hotel with a solid breakfast. They have an interesting bath setup with two baths (warm and cold) as well as a sauna. The rooms were really nice to with great beds and cushions.

What a great room and we slept so well, the hotel temperature is well controlled and never felt cold, I do not even need to turn on heating in my room. Pillows are comfortable.

A sublime experience of Japanese hospitality in a traditional house. Akari & Yugo created an incredible meal including vegetables from the garden and surrounding forest.

Stayed for two nights and couldn't have been happier with the stay. Worth the short drive just outside of town. Staff was friendly and very helpful.

My favorite hostel ever. This place instantly felt so much like home. Such a great location in koenji, walking distance to the train and a bunch of cute vintage shops.

Incredible location and a very lovely and comfortable hostel. The facilities and very convenient and well maintained and I slept amazing in the larger than average sized bed.

Just stopped by for lunch as v handy at the foot of the slopes. Slight issue with ordering — machine just wasn’t working. So had to pay cash at the counter. But food was amazing.

I initially booked Hotel Ichinose, but due to an issue with Agoda, the staff kindly contacted Hotel Khuls next door, where one of their team members came to pick us up. They quickly directed us to

1166 Backpackers is cozy and authentic. The staff is enormous helpfull: Whether you need help planning your next day trip or help understanding the bus ticketing system.

We had a wonderful stay at this very welcoming hostel. The staff were incredibly attentive, friendly, organized and offered great advice. We highly recommend this hostel; we didn't want to leave!

I had a wonderful experience.
I was happy to be treated with so much warmth by the hosts.
The room I stayed is called Sakura.

A truly special place! We stayed here for the Nagano portion of our baby moon and we loved it. We felt so taken care of by the kind hosts, whose hospitality we’ll never forget.

To say that the hotel is outdated would be an understatement. I think they were the hotel where the athletes stayed during the 80s winter Olympics.

Cleanliness of room can be better, found a pouch belonging to someone else in the room, left lying in a corner of the room.

Literally nothing better I could have asked for for a night less than 30 USD. The bed is big, the kitchen is great, the staffs are nice and helpful, the location is 100m away from nagano station.

Near the train station so it is very convenient. Staff are super friendly. Place is clean, beds are comfortable.