Morioka New City Hotel

Booked a room with a semi double bed, and both the bathroom and room were really tiny. But the hotel is just for sleeping anyway, so it wasnt a big deal. The hotel and rooms are a little old, but no problem with cleanliness. Just a few minutes from Morioka station, and about 10-15 mins to the main street and castle ruins, giving it a really good location. If you arrive with a car, they will tell you where to park and as long as you leave the carpark by 10am checkout time the next day it will be a flat 900 yen (they provide you with the carpark exit coupon). WIFI connection kept dropping a few times so seems like it wasnt really stable when we were there. Reception was really friendly and service was excellent.

Semi Double Room was tiny, only had a hand width allowance in the walkway after opening up my medium sized luggage fully. Toilet was such that I could spit into the sink while on the toilet seat. However, room was clean and a basic breakfast (bun/crossiant and a drink) was provided for free. How to get there from JR Morioka With stairs: Head to Fesan B1 and take the underpass to exit B5/6. Turn left (B6) or right (B5) and walk down the alleyway with the station at your back. Look up and you should be able to see New City Hotel (a brick red building) Without stairs: From the station, follow the signs for Hotel Metropolitan. Just before entering the hotel, you should see an exit to the outside on your right. Take that and cross the road using the traffic light. Turn right and walk straight until you reach the underpass exits B5/6 then follow as above.

we spent two nights in Morioka and this hotel had a reasonable price and it was very conveniently located close to the train station and the bus going to Ryusendo cave the room is tiny, and the bed occupies most of the available space; the bathroom is even tinier, but functional breakfast is included but it's just some decent coffee (unless you're very into coffee) and tasty croissants, nothing else some decent restaurants around, and 10-15' walking from the dinning/night area of Saien not bad but maybe only for one night or two