Our visit was during wintertime, and we had bad weather too!
Location - near to Heiwa Dori, the second site of the Asahikawa snow festival, which is were the ice sculptures were so this is already ideal. The ryokan is also within walking distance to restaurants dotting the area. If you walk to this place during night time during winter from the JR Asahikawa Station, I think the 10-minute walk here would not be that easy if you have luggage and are slogging through snow or icy paths (though for us, we were having backpacks so it was manageable).

Hosts - the owners were a lovely older couple who were very hospitable even if we arrived at almost 11 pm on that winter night. The weather made us more late than we had planned but they were quite hospitable, stowed our shoes to dry off and showed our room and the shared toilets/wash area/bathing facilities/ofuro. We also got snacks of cookies and delicious warm milk the following night - quite welcome from being frozen from our walk.

Building/Facilities - it is not a very new, modern structure, but it does have a charm of its own and was warm enough in the winter month. As expected of Japan, it was all very clean and the biggest surprise for me was of having a "living area" room aside from our bedroom. I had thought that the our sleeping quarters was where we would dump our things but that was a separate room while the room across it was where we could put our luggage, have tea, relax and dry out our things so that in itself was value for money! It is the only ryokan I have stayed so far in Japan which gave me so much space for the cost :-) I also greatly enjoyed their Japanese-style bath - even if you have to take turns, just cleaning up and then lying in it to fight off the chill was very welcome. The internet was fast and free, the room heater helped dry some of the hand-washed clothes I had to do, and there were enough washbasins to ensure people were able to do their personal ablutions without queuing, while toilets were male and female, so didn't really experience any delays.

Breakfast - as expected I greatly enjoyed their home-cooked meal. Definitely worth having breakfast here instead of outside but you need to have it arranged beforehand so do sign up for it.

Con: the only issue for me with this visit was that I never got a reply to all the emails I sent to them after my booking - from before my trip to even after my trip. I asked about the free shuttle, and tried to arrange for breakfast for all the days we stayed at the ryokan but there was no yes or not at all. The email address seen on some websites for them is wrong, so I contacted Agoda helpdesk and they gave me the correct one (mimatuso-258ryokan@alto.ocn.ne.jp), but even with that, I never received any reply to either confirm or refuse my request or answer my questions. I gave up and just went there instead of also trying to call them as I wasn't sure also if my English could be understood over phonecalls. So we walked to the ryokan that night, and also did not have breakfast the first day. *sigh*

But aside from those cons for me, I still would recommend staying here for those wanting charming small ryokans which are not that expensive. I really enjoyed staying in Asahikawa and one reason was my lodging at this place. They also gave us a little pouch of souvenirs (candies, little origami cranes and such) at the end of our stay - I was a little regretful not staying longer in Asahikawa.