Of all the eight different hotels we stayed at during our three week trip trough Japan, this one had the highest number of stars and had paradoxically the lowest room standard.
Pros for this hotell: spacious room, nice view. Breakfast is fresh with a vast selection, they even have different cheeses which non other hotel I stayed at in Japan had. When sitting down in the common lounge area by the reseption we were offered cold refreshing drinks.
Cons: A bit old fashioned or worn out room interiors, plastic surfaces has turned yellow, rust or dirt in the corners of the bath room, flaked off paint, expensive minibar (you’l get it all at 7-eleven in the train station downstairs for 1/3 of the price, tilted lamp, dirty air outlet of aircon, dirty lamp in bathroom.
In addition you have to pay an additional fee to use the hot spring/swimmingpool (which was always included in the lower rated, cleaner and much cheaper 3-star hotels we stayed at).
The area around Shin-Kobe seems dead.