Castle Park Hotel (Shiroyama Kanko Hotel)

Kagoshima's foremost hotel sits 106m (353 ft.) high atop the wood-covered Shiroyama Hill and commands a great view of the city below and Sakurajima across the bay. Opened more than 40 years ago, it offers updated, comfortable rooms, the most recommended (and more expensive) of which face the volcano and city with the best views in town. Other pluses include hot-spring (including open-air) baths with views of Kinko Bay, a free English-language movie shown nightly on a screen off the lobby, and good restaurants that take advantage of the hotel's views and gardenlike setting (I especially like the buffet restaurant with its outdoor terrace and the microbrewery with its summer beer garden). In short, this is a great respite from city life, and to offset the hotel's main drawback -- an isolated location away from the city center -- it offers free shuttle buses to Tenmonkan-Dori in the heart of the city and Kagoshima Chuo Station every hour or more frequently (it's also served by both daytime and the night City View buses).

Facilities:
5 restaurants; lounge; 2 bars; outdoor/indoor hot-spring baths; room service; sauna; smoke-free rooms

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