Smile Hotel Shinosaka

“Great base for SHINKANSEN day tripping”

Convenient location for catching Shinkansen or JR trains. Basic clean hotel. No bells or whistles here. No onsen. Full clean of room - once every 3 days. A bagged fresh towel (for each guest) is hung on your door handle (to the hallway) daily. Guests can drop any used/wet towels in the blue laundr… more

Convenient location for catching Shinkansen or JR trains. Basic clean hotel. No bells or whistles here. No onsen. Full clean of room - once every 3 days. A bagged fresh towel (for each guest) is hung on your door handle (to the hallway) daily. Guests can drop any used/wet towels in the blue laundry baskets by the elevators. Breakfast is chargeable and tickets are issued at check-in. Varied and hearty. Plenty of seats. -1* less cleaning service swapped for using plastic bags

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“Great location with spacious twin room”

I booked a twin room, and the room is rather spacious in comparison to most hotels in downtown Namba or Umeda. This 14-storey hotel is located just 2 subway stops away from Umeda, and within 10 mins walk from JR Shin-Osaka station, highly recommended for those who would be using Shinkansen. We are … more

I booked a twin room, and the room is rather spacious in comparison to most hotels in downtown Namba or Umeda. This 14-storey hotel is located just 2 subway stops away from Umeda, and within 10 mins walk from JR Shin-Osaka station, highly recommended for those who would be using Shinkansen. We are carrying mid side luggage, and dragging them to Shin Osaka station are rather barrier-free. The room itself is well-maintained, but the hotel adopted an eco policy which means they would only clean your room every 3 days, however fresh towels would be provided daily. The hotel does not lie along the main road, they may be a little difficult to locate without Google map initially, and is about 5 mins walk from the nearest subway station, Nishinakajima Minamigata. There are a few combini in the vicinity, and a couple of supermarkets some 5 mins walk away, but there are few eateries on this side of the subway, more on the other side though, where one can find plenty restaurants, including fast food. Our room has standard business hotel amenities that include a 42" Sharp wall-mounted LCD TV, Mitsubishi aircon, mini-fridge, kettle, hairdryer etc. Tea bags (sencha & hojicha) are available at the lobby, while my level also has vending machine and ice machine. And I absolutely love the big bath tub in the room! Coin laundry are available on level 2 & 8 for 300 Yen, no detergent required. In addition, the hotel is also close to Hankyu Nishinakajima Minamigata station, which provides direct rail access right into Kyoto's heartbeat, Kawaramachi, in about 40 mins. I personally feel staying here is great because it has good connection to Shinkansen, Kyoto, and that one subway line (Midosuji line) which linked almost all the major shopping districts (Umeda, Namba, Tennoji) in Osaka seamlessly. All in all, we thoroughly enjoyed our stay here.

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“Convenient to public transport”

Close to Shin-Osaka station and Nishinakajima-Minamigata subway. The hotel is on a street, but it doesn't seem super busy. There are grocery stores and local restaurants near by. It seemed mainly quiet. The local restaurants are around the vicinity (not like right next to). There are two floors whe… more

Close to Shin-Osaka station and Nishinakajima-Minamigata subway. The hotel is on a street, but it doesn't seem super busy. There are grocery stores and local restaurants near by. It seemed mainly quiet. The local restaurants are around the vicinity (not like right next to). There are two floors where there are laundry machines, and that is really convenient. I stayed for 6 days, so there was a change of bedding once and i selected it to be in the middle. Other than that, there is no cleaning but they leave bags of towels outside your door, and extra garbage bags. So you can tie your garbage and leave it outside your door. Seems like a lot of extra plastic bags. At the lobby of the hotel, you can take any toiletries as you need. So it's not placed in your room. The washroom has shampoo, condition and body soap. Although there was no cleaning, I did noticed that every evening, there would be a fresh scent of some sort of fragrance that is smelling like ocean fresh.

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“Good value for money - Bed not the most comfortable ”

Clean and tidy with a good clean awning schedule. Rooms are a fair size for Japan - We even had space to open our case. Lack of plug sockets (We used 1 socket with an extension lead in the end) and there is only 1 USB port beside the bed despite it being a room for 2 people. The bed is... Firm and… more

Clean and tidy with a good clean awning schedule. Rooms are a fair size for Japan - We even had space to open our case. Lack of plug sockets (We used 1 socket with an extension lead in the end) and there is only 1 USB port beside the bed despite it being a room for 2 people. The bed is... Firm and the pillows pretty flat (We asked for an extra pillow each to help with this - This wasn't a problem). The staff were friendly and helpful. Amenities were limited compared to other hotels we've stayed in (but this is likely reflected in the price) no shower cap, creams / moisturisers / coffee or milk. The razor quality was also not good. That being said, for a cheap hotel it was 10mins walk to the local subway and 15 to Shin-Osaka main station so location was good This is a budget hotel and for what we paid (avg £40pn it was good value for money) The bed just wasn't comfortable enough for me unfortunately

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