On Our Radar
What caught our eye before visiting — from reviews and research, not a stay.
What caught our eye first was the claim itself: "the original dinosaur theme-park hotel, open before USJ." A camouflage-patterned exterior, a dinosaur waiting in the lobby.
Rooms 406 and 407 apparently have an "attraction button" built into the bed panel — press it, and the room goes dark while thunder and dinosaur roars blast through the speakers.
Rooms built as attractions in their own right seem to be the draw too — a planetarium room, an "attraction room."
An open-air bath, all-you-can-sing karaoke, even free army-cosplay rental — this reads less like "a stay" and more like "a night inside a theme park."
We haven't been yet, so a star rating is still a ways off.
Trip Notes
If you're staying here, this is the day we'd recommend.
- Access
- Right off the Beppu IC exit on the Kyushu Yokodan Road (turn right at the Beppu IC entrance intersection).
- Google Maps
- J ZAURUSS 別府
- Phone
- 0977-21-8980
- Hours
- Not available
- Price
- Rest: ¥3,500–5,800 weekdays, ¥4,500–6,800 weekends/holidays (2 hours). Overnight: ¥7,000–9,300 weekdays, ¥10,300–19,300 Sat/day before a holiday. Plus a 10% service charge; a Sumapaku (smartphone check-in) plan from ¥5,700. See the official site for full details.
- Official Site
- skyclub.co.jp/hotel/j-zauruss/
Good to Know
- Official name: J ZAURUSS. Run by SKY RESORT HOTELS (the SKY Group) — 7 room grades across multiple rooms, every room equipped with a dinosaur sound attraction.
- Rest: 5:00am–midnight. No-time plan: 5:00am–8:00pm (until 4:00pm weekends/holidays). Overnight check-in from 3:00pm, every day of the year.
- A 2-hour rest starts from ¥3,500 on weekdays; an overnight stay from ¥7,000 (both plus a 10% service charge). A "Sumapaku" smartphone-check-in plan is also available at ¥5,700.
- Free Wi-Fi throughout every room and the lobby. Up to 15% off with a member card, 50% off on your birthday.
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