A dark entry but the front desk is on the second floor. The food is cheap, so-so, but filling for skiers. There is no hot water in the rooms, but I feel lucky to have an en-suite bathroom for this price, right across the street from the slopes. I slept very well, which is important to mention.
Excellent meals, buffet breakfast, hot pots plus buffet dinner are delicious and certainly to fill you up. Anyone should book room + 2 meals. Very good location ski slopes just adjacent and across the road from hotel.
Yep, this is not a 5 star facility but it is more than comfortable, there is an excellent restaurant onsite for breakfast and dinner, restaurants and bars in very close proximity, a chair lift and restaurants directly opposite with a ski lift office on the snow that will take credit card. We have stayed here 4 times now and it is our preferred place in Shiga. It is just nice to walk in and have a nice chat with people and then on the way home have a beer next door. If not for COVID we would have been there for a 5th time.
This is a basic skiers' hotel. Diamond Shiga provides everything a skier needs. There's a large ski and boot locker room with lockable ski racks and lockers. Nice communal baths, which cannot be call onsens. Probably because the water is not from natural hot springs. Meals can be added, but both breakfast and dinner are of the hotel buffet variety and and become monotonous by the second day. With a group of four sharing a Japanese style room, things became very tight for space. The hotel interior has become old and faded and badly needs some renovations. I know that this all sounds very negative, however, at the price it is entirely adequate for a skiing holiday in Shiga Kogen. Biggest saving grace is it's ski in ski out location as shown by the photo from our room.
