The location is brilliant. Convenient to beach, Shirahama Energy Land, Shirahama Bus Station, various restaurants, tourist information center, convenience store and 24-hour supermarket.
While I understand the need for automated check-in, the machine was frustrating. It asked if we were Japanese, and when I indicated we weren't, we were told to input our passport numbers and images of our passports. My husband and I are permanent residents of Japan so we do not need to carry our passports when we travel in Japan. There was no staff on to help so I lied to the machine and said we were Japanese.
The room was clean and comfortable with a spacious closet. However, at 2:00am the bar in the closet fell off the wall and made a loud noise even though we had not hung anything heavy from it.