The location is good, very near Akita JR station. Staff were friendly and complimentary breakfast was ok.
One thing that we would like to point out, the earthquake of 6.8 scale at Niigata happened during our second night. We could feel the tremor and tried to go down through the emergency staircase, however, it was locked. Tried to call front desk, however the staff on duty that time could not really speak English. There was announcement made in Japanese, but not in English. Eventually one of the staff came up and opened the emergency staircase. We felt that the hotel could do more for foreigners, at least an announcement in English, during an emergency.