HOTEL WELLIES, Karuizawa

Hotel Wellies features 9 unique rooms, such as room 202, with two wallpaper patterns from the UK. All rooms include air conditioning, refrigerators, and flat-screen TVs. Rooms offer tea and coffee facilities, sitting areas, terraces, garden furniture, and free toiletries. Bathrooms have a bath, shower, and bidet, plus bathrobes. Certain rooms renovated feature views of Mt. Asama and English wallpaper. Some rooms have windows looking into the bedroom and living area. Room options range from Standard Doubles ideal for couples, to Family Rooms. Select rooms include mountain or garden views, seating areas, sofas, and pajamas. Guests can store luggage and ski/golf equipment at the property.

The hotel's lounge, dining, and bar areas are central to the hotel experience. The bar offers local and imported beers, wines, cocktails, and many Scotch whiskies, including a special London Gin & Tonic painting by Mr. Wakamatsu. The property's signature dish is a full English breakfast with homemade sausages, home-cured bacon, and black pudding. A 4-course meal is offered, including fish & chips, beef stew, Yorkshire pudding, and home-smoked salmon. Much of the food, such as bacon, smoked salmon, black pudding, and pate, is hand-made at the hotel. Even eggs come from hens nurtured on the hotel grounds.

Guests can enjoy a fun but useful English conversation class with native English teachers. Karuizawa offers over a dozen golf courses, more tennis courts than Wimbledon, a ski resort, and numerous world-class sports facilities. Cycling is a popular way to see Karuizawa. The area has craft shops with English flower arranging, leather works, and glass blowing.

Hotel Wellies provides a British country hotel experience in the highland resort area of Karuizawa. The property is home to the largest outlet shopping mall in Japan. Nearby landmarks include Kutsukake Terrace (0.5 km), Nakakaruizawa Library (1 km), and Kumoba Pond (3 km). Harnile Terrace and Ginza Shopping Street are worth checking out for shopping. The hotel is 90 km from Shinshu-Matsumoto. Views from the rooms include greenery and Mt. Asama.