Our room at Satoshi's inn was sparkling clean, with a comfortable bed and snow-white, new cotton comforter covers. The inn has a large kitchen with an interesting assortment of books and magazines in English and Japanese. It is like the kitchens in hostels of yore, where there is plenty of space for guests to cook and sit down at a large table together, get to talk with one another and compare notes of our travels. There's a good little grocery store and two cafes within easy walking distance (half a mile, I'd guess) and the gorgeous Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park with lots of great walking trails is just a couple of miles away. Satoshi is often there and can provide advice about where to go and what to do. All in all, we spent a leisurely and happy four days at the inn.