The hotel seems very new with high quality furnishings. The bathroom amenities are top notch. They also offer some rarely seen amenities such as free facial toner and lotions, different choices of pillows, etc. The room is more spacious than regular Japanese hotel rooms. The location is superb. It is walkable to a few attractions such as the morning market, Mt. Hakodate, etc. The JR station, bus station and tram station are all within 5 minutes of walk. I really enjoyed the stay.
I think the guest laundry can be improved. There are six machines. But the machine's capacity is small and a full cycle takes 2 hours. As a result, they are often all occupied in the afternoons and evenings. I ended up going at 5am and most of the machines were still in use. Obviously someone even got up at 4am to use the laundry. If the hotel could add another laundry room, with more efficient machines, that would be very helpful. In the meanwhile, some staff could regularly check the laundry room and take finished laundry to the front desk if the owners do not pick up on time. In this way, other guests do not need to keep coming back to check whether machines are emptied.
The breakfast buffet is a little disappointing in my perspective. Unless you eat a lot of sushi or sashimi, it is not really worth 2600JPY per person.