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Tokyo to Osaka along the classic route, then a flight to Hokkaido for Noboribetsu’s hot springs, Lake Toya, Otaru and Sapporo — two onsen nights, 4 to 5-star hotels, gratuities included
Nine days that join Japan’s classic route with its northern island. From Tokyo you travel via a hot-spring night by Mt Fuji to Nagoya, Kyoto, Nara and Osaka, then fly from Osaka to Sapporo for Hokkaido: a second onsen night in Noboribetsu, Hell Valley, Lake Toya, the cliffs of Cape Chikyu, the canal town of Otaru and two nights in Sapporo.
You stay in 4 to 5-star hotels in Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka and Sapporo, with two nights at hot-spring hotels. The Osaka–Sapporo flight (with a 20 kg checked bag) and an arrival transfer from Narita or Haneda are included, and an English-speaking guide travels with you.
How the price works: CAD $3,799 per person sharing a twin or double room, land only — flights to Tokyo and home from Sapporo are not included. On 19 and 26 October (high season) the price is CAD $4,149. Gratuities for your guides and drivers are already included. The single supplement is CAD $1,220 (CAD $1,360 in high season).
A receptionist meets arrivals at Narita and Haneda between 8 am and 10 pm and arranges your transfer to the hotel; transfers are grouped, so allow for a short wait. Hotel check-in is from 3 pm with your passport — if you arrive early you can leave your luggage and explore on your own.
Visit Senso-ji, Tokyo’s oldest temple, and the stalls of Nakamise Dori; see Tokyo Skytree from a distance and Nijubashi Bridge by the Imperial Palace East Garden, then walk through Shinjuku’s Kabukicho. In the afternoon, travel to the Mt Fuji area for dinner and a night at a hot-spring hotel. Seasonal stops: Yoyogi Park and Rikugien Garden in autumn (18 October – 15 November).
Japanese-modern hotel opened in 2019 near Lake Kawaguchi, an 11-minute walk from Kawaguchiko station, with 120 non-smoking rooms (most of them tatami rooms with futons, half facing Mt Fuji), a buffet restaurant with a Mt Fuji view, and a communal bath with indoor carbonated and silky baths plus an open-air bath facing the mountain.
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Resort hotel in the forest at the foot of Mt Fuji, a five-minute walk from Lake Motosu, with a main building and an east wing of twin, tatami and Japanese–Western rooms from 27 to 54 m², a large bath with men's and women's open-air baths (artificially mineralised Komyo-stone water), and a second-floor buffet restaurant facing Mt Fuji that serves a crab-and-steak dinner buffet and breakfast.
See the hotel › 10 photosGo up to the Mt Fuji 5th Station (if the weather closes the road, the Mt Fuji World Heritage Centre instead), then visit Oshino Hakkai’s spring-fed ponds and water wheels and Bussharito Heiwa Park. Transfer to Nagoya for a free evening in the Osu shopping district.
Keihan Hotels' 13-storey business hotel in central Nagoya, opened in April 2020 with 259 non-smoking rooms from 17.5 to 31 m², a buffet-breakfast restaurant run by the Kyoto restaurant Madoi, self check-in kiosks and a coin laundry, four minutes' walk from Marunouchi and Hisaya-odori subway stations and ten minutes by taxi from Nagoya Station.
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Hilton's 28-storey landmark tower in Fushimi, between Nagoya Station and Sakae, opened in 1989 with 460 rooms of 30 m² and up in a Japanese-modern style, three restaurants, a bar and a café, a 15 m indoor heated pool, gym, sauna and tennis court on the 7th floor, an executive lounge and a 1,000-seat ballroom; Fushimi subway station is three minutes' walk.
See the hotel › 10 photosVisit Nagoya Castle, then continue to Kyoto for Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Pavilion. Walk through Gion, visit Yasaka Shrine and Hanamikoji, and end by the Kamo River. Seasonal stops: Arashiyama and Togetsukyo Bridge in autumn.
Japan's first Hilton Garden Inn, opened in November 2022 on Karasuma-dori in central Kyoto: a nine-storey hotel with 250 rooms, the Together & Co. all-day restaurant, a fitness centre and a 24-hour shop, a four-minute walk from Shijo and Gojo subway stations and three minutes from Kyoto Station by subway.
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Keihan Hotels' five-storey hotel five minutes' walk from the Hachijo East exit of Kyoto Station, opened in December 2018 with 234 non-smoking rooms from 14 to 22 m², a large public bath with indoor and open-air tubs, self check-in kiosks, a coin laundry and a buffet-breakfast restaurant run by the Kyoto restaurant Madoi.
See the hotel › 10 photosVisit the Kyoto Imperial Palace and walk the torii-gate paths of Fushimi Inari Taisha. In Nara, see the deer of Nara Park and Kasuga Taisha Shrine. In Osaka, visit the grounds of Osaka Castle Park, then Shinsaibashi and Dotonbori, where dinner is at your own choice.
Sheraton-branded Miyako Hotels tower on the Uemachi Plateau, directly connected to Kintetsu Osaka-Uehommachi station and two stops from Namba, with 574 rooms, French, Sichuan and Japanese restaurants, a 20th-floor Sheraton Club lounge, a free 24-hour gym and a members' health club with an indoor pool, and airport limousine buses from the door.
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Miyako City Osaka Hommachi, opened in June 2020 by Kintetsu's Miyako Hotels & Resorts, is a 308-room hotel in the Semba business district of central Osaka, two minutes' walk from Sakaisuji-Hommachi metro. Every room has a balcony and a bathroom with a separate washing area; a Chinese brasserie serves the buffet breakfast and a free guest lounge is open all day.
See the hotel › 10 photosAfter breakfast, take the included shuttle bus to Kansai Airport (your guide arranges your ticket and times) and fly to Sapporo New Chitose. A local receptionist meets you and transfers you to your hot-spring hotel in Noboribetsu for dinner. Check-in is from 3 pm. The hotel’s dinner service ends at 8 pm; if a delayed flight means you miss it, it cannot be refunded or rescheduled.
Walk through Noboribetsu Jigokudani, the steaming volcanic valley that feeds the town’s springs, and dip your feet in the natural footbath of the Oyunuma River (bring a towel). Visit Noboribetsu Date Jidaimura, an Edo-period theme village with ninja and samurai shows, then the sea cliffs of Cape Chikyu and the caldera lake of Lake Toya before driving to Sapporo.
Drive to the port town of Otaru to walk along the canal and its brick warehouses and visit the Otaru Music Box Museum. Back in Sapporo, visit the Sapporo Beer Museum and Shiroi Koibito Park. In October the route adds the Mt Moiwa ropeway for the autumn colours. The evening is free on Tanuki Koji shopping street, with dinner at your own choice.
After breakfast you are taken to New Chitose Airport, about 2.5 hours from the hotel with the group transfer — book a flight leaving after 1 pm.
11 hand-picked hotels over 12 nights of this itinerary. Open any property for photos, video, a full introduction and what's on site.
43-storey tower in Tokyo Dome City, Bunkyo, with 1,006 rooms on floors 9 to 41, eight restaurants and bars from the lobby lounge to the 43rd-floor sky restaurant, a 7th-floor fitness room and a summer garden pool; two minutes' walk from JR Suidobashi station and five from Korakuen metro.
See the hotel › 10 photosJapanese-modern hotel opened in 2019 near Lake Kawaguchi, an 11-minute walk from Kawaguchiko station, with 120 non-smoking rooms (most of them tatami rooms with futons, half facing Mt Fuji), a buffet restaurant with a Mt Fuji view, and a communal bath with indoor carbonated and silky baths plus an open-air bath facing the mountain.
See the hotel › 10 photosResort hotel in the forest at the foot of Mt Fuji, a five-minute walk from Lake Motosu, with a main building and an east wing of twin, tatami and Japanese–Western rooms from 27 to 54 m², a large bath with men's and women's open-air baths (artificially mineralised Komyo-stone water), and a second-floor buffet restaurant facing Mt Fuji that serves a crab-and-steak dinner buffet and breakfast.
See the hotel › 10 photosKeihan Hotels' 13-storey business hotel in central Nagoya, opened in April 2020 with 259 non-smoking rooms from 17.5 to 31 m², a buffet-breakfast restaurant run by the Kyoto restaurant Madoi, self check-in kiosks and a coin laundry, four minutes' walk from Marunouchi and Hisaya-odori subway stations and ten minutes by taxi from Nagoya Station.
See the hotel › 10 photosHilton's 28-storey landmark tower in Fushimi, between Nagoya Station and Sakae, opened in 1989 with 460 rooms of 30 m² and up in a Japanese-modern style, three restaurants, a bar and a café, a 15 m indoor heated pool, gym, sauna and tennis court on the 7th floor, an executive lounge and a 1,000-seat ballroom; Fushimi subway station is three minutes' walk.
See the hotel › 10 photosJapan's first Hilton Garden Inn, opened in November 2022 on Karasuma-dori in central Kyoto: a nine-storey hotel with 250 rooms, the Together & Co. all-day restaurant, a fitness centre and a 24-hour shop, a four-minute walk from Shijo and Gojo subway stations and three minutes from Kyoto Station by subway.
See the hotel › 9 photosKeihan Hotels' five-storey hotel five minutes' walk from the Hachijo East exit of Kyoto Station, opened in December 2018 with 234 non-smoking rooms from 14 to 22 m², a large public bath with indoor and open-air tubs, self check-in kiosks, a coin laundry and a buffet-breakfast restaurant run by the Kyoto restaurant Madoi.
See the hotel › 10 photosSheraton-branded Miyako Hotels tower on the Uemachi Plateau, directly connected to Kintetsu Osaka-Uehommachi station and two stops from Namba, with 574 rooms, French, Sichuan and Japanese restaurants, a 20th-floor Sheraton Club lounge, a free 24-hour gym and a members' health club with an indoor pool, and airport limousine buses from the door.
See the hotel › 10 photosMiyako City Osaka Hommachi, opened in June 2020 by Kintetsu's Miyako Hotels & Resorts, is a 308-room hotel in the Semba business district of central Osaka, two minutes' walk from Sakaisuji-Hommachi metro. Every room has a balcony and a bathroom with a separate washing area; a Chinese brasserie serves the buffet breakfast and a free guest lounge is open all day.
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Large onsen hotel in the Noboribetsu Onsen village, built directly over its own hot-spring sources, about a 10-minute walk from the bus terminal and 650 m from Jigokudani (Hell Valley). 156 rooms in Japanese, Western, Japanese-Western and deluxe styles. Five different spring waters feed the men's and women's indoor baths and open-air baths; dinner and breakfast are Japanese-Western-Chinese buffets at Restaurant Shiki. Free parking; check-in 2 pm, check-out 10 am. Run by the local Toho Resort group.
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575-room business hotel in the Susukino entertainment district, 1 minute on foot from exit 4 of Susukino subway station and about 7 minutes by car from JR Sapporo Station; the New Chitose Airport limousine bus stops nearby (about 75 minutes). Opened in June 1980 as the Sapporo Tokyu Inn, renovated 2009-2010. Hokkaido-themed breakfast buffet at South West restaurant, free guest lounge, 103-space underground car park, coin laundry and a 24-hour currency exchange machine. The hotel will close on 31 August 2027 when its building lease ends.
See the hotel › 10 photosWhere a day says “or similar”, a comparable property of the same standard may be used on some departures. Room photos are representative; the room category is set by your booked package.
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Tokyo Dome Hotel is the 43-storey tower beside the Tokyo Dome baseball stadium in Tokyo Dome City, the amusement district on the north side of the Imperial Palace grounds. The 1,006 rooms occupy floors 9 to 41 and face either the Dome and its rides (park side) or the Palace gardens and the skyline (palace side). Standard-floor twin and double rooms are 26–33 m² with a bath and washlet toilet, humidifier air purifier, kettle with tea, a stocked fridge and free Wi-Fi; Premium rooms are on floors 35–38 and Executive rooms and suites on 39–41, with their own lounge on the 40th floor.
Rilassa on the 3rd floor is the buffet restaurant and breakfast venue (Japanese, Western and Chinese dishes, 6:30–9:30); Artist Café on the 43rd floor serves Italian food with a panoramic view; Deux Mil is the French restaurant and Bar 2000 the main bar on the 6th floor; Kumagyoan Tankuma Kitamise serves Kyoto cuisine, teppanyaki and sushi on the 4th floor; Sizzler and the Gyubei yakiniku restaurant are on the 2nd floor and the Garden Terrace lobby lounge on the 1st. A Lawson convenience store is on the 2nd floor.
Fitness room with Life Fitness machines on the 7th floor (6:00–22:00, paid for standard-floor guests), an outdoor 20 m garden pool open in summer, self-service laundry, a nursing room and a hair and beauty salon. Tokyo Dome City's rides, the Spa LaQua hot-spring complex and the Koishikawa Korakuen garden are next door.
JR Suidobashi station (Chuo–Sobu line) is about two minutes' walk from the east exit and the Toei Mita line exit A2 one minute; Korakuen station (Marunouchi and Namboku lines) is five minutes and Kasuga (Oedo line) six. Tokyo station and Ueno are about 15 minutes by taxi, Shinjuku about 30.
Fuji Kawaguchiko Resort Hotel is a four-storey Japanese-modern hotel completed in 2019 in Funatsu, the town centre of Fujikawaguchiko, between Kawaguchiko station and Fuji-Q Highland. The lobby is lit by a chandelier of more than 100 crystals in the shape of Mt Fuji, hung with the Thirty-six Views of the mountain. All 120 rooms are non-smoking: 89 are 24 m² Japanese-style tatami rooms sleeping one to three on futons (51 on the Mt Fuji side, 38 on the car-park side), four are 36 m² Japanese–Western rooms with two 120 cm beds and two futons for up to four, and 26 are 18 m² semi-double rooms on the car-park side. Every room has a bath with washlet toilet, TV, fridge, kettle, safe, air purifier-humidifier and free Wi-Fi; yukata, razors, toothbrushes and other amenities are taken from self-service boxes on each floor.
The ground-floor restaurant looks over a dry-landscape garden towards Mt Fuji and serves buffet breakfast (6:30–9:30) and buffet dinner (17:30–21:00) of more than 30 Japanese, Western and Chinese dishes; there is no lunch service. A hotel shop with local products and travel goods is open 7:00–23:00.
The large communal bath on the ground floor (15:00–23:00 and 6:00–9:00) has two indoor baths — a carbonated bath of more than 1,000 ppm and a milky "silky" micro-bubble bath — and a men's and a women's open-air bath with two pot tubs facing Mt Fuji. The hotel notes the water is carbonated artificially rather than a natural hot spring, and there is no sauna. Guests with tattoos are not admitted.
Kawaguchiko station on the Fujikyu line is about 900 m (11 minutes on foot; a free shuttle runs from platform 10 between 11:30 and 21:00), Fujikyu Highland station about 1 km, and the Kawaguchiko interchange on the Chuo Expressway five minutes by car. Free parking for 62 cars and five coaches, with two EV chargers.
Motosu Phoenix Hotel stands among mossed lava and primeval forest near the shore of Lake Motosu, the westernmost of the Fuji Five Lakes and the one whose "inverted Fuji" appears on the 1,000-yen note. Rooms are in a main building (four types, all 34 m² except the 54 m² special room: twin, twin with a raised tatami corner sleeping three, tatami room for up to three futons, and the special room with two beds and up to two futons) and an east wing (27 m² twin and Japanese–Western rooms). Every room has a separate bathroom, washbasin and washlet toilet, TV, kettle, hairdryer, central air-conditioning, yukata and free Wi-Fi; the whole building is non-smoking apart from smoking rooms on each floor.
Restaurant Fuji on the second floor of the main building looks towards Mt Fuji and serves buffet meals built around seasonal produce and local vegetables and meat: dinner (18:00–21:00, 70-minute seating, last entry 20:15) is an all-you-can-eat crab and steak buffet with sashimi and Japanese dishes; breakfast (7:00–9:00, last entry 8:15) is Japanese and Western. Alcohol is extra and there is no room service.
The Komyo Motosu hot spring on the ground floor of the main building — an artificial hot spring mineralised with Komyo stone from Okayama — has men's and women's indoor baths and open-air baths surrounded by the lakeside forest, open 15:00–0:30 and 5:00–9:00. Free electric bicycles (9:00–18:00; a lap of the lake takes about an hour), a free games corner in the east wing with billiards, table tennis and a Nintendo Switch (18:00–24:00), paid karaoke rooms, a coin laundry and a shop (7:00–22:00).
About 30 minutes by car from the Kawaguchiko interchange on the Chuo Expressway and 40 from the Fuji interchange on the Tomei; by public transport, a Fujikyu bus from Kawaguchiko station to the Motosu Iriguchi stop and five minutes on foot (the hotel also runs a free shuttle to Kawaguchiko station by prior arrangement). Free parking.
Hotel Keihan Nagoya is a 13-storey business hotel on Nishiki-dori in Naka-ku, opened on 3 April 2020 by Keihan Hotels & Resorts. The 259 rooms occupy floors 2 to 13 and are all non-smoking: Double rooms are 17.5 m² with a 140 cm bed, Standard Twin and Hollywood Twin rooms 21 m², and Superior Twin rooms 31 m² with a separate bath and toilet; twin rooms take an extra bed for three. Every room has free Wi-Fi and a ReFa hair dryer and shower head.
The ground-floor restaurant is run by Madoi, a Western-style restaurant founded in Kyoto in 1961. Breakfast is a buffet from 7:00 to 10:00 (¥1,980) with a Nagoya corner — hitsumabushi eel rice, miso pork cutlet, kishimen noodles, sweet-and-spicy chicken wings and ogura toast — plus Kyoto pickles from Nishiri and French toast. Lunch and dinner service in the restaurant has ended; evening meals are take-away only, ordered from the room.
Three self check-in kiosks and a lobby with local guides and magazines; an amenity bar for toiletries; coin laundry with detergent-free washer-dryers on the 2nd floor; vending machines, microwaves and ice machines on the 2nd and 13th floors; a smoking booth; luggage storage before check-in and after check-out; ten parking spaces (¥1,800 per night, first come first served). Check-in from 15:00, check-out 11:00.
Four minutes on foot from Marunouchi station (Sakura-dori and Tsurumai lines) and three to four minutes from Hisaya-odori station (Meijo and Sakura-dori lines); Sakae is about 13 minutes' walk and Nagoya Castle two subway stops away. Nagoya Station is about ten minutes by taxi; Chubu Centrair airport is roughly 35 minutes by Meitetsu train and subway.
Hilton Nagoya is a pearl-white tower of 28 floors above ground and three below on Hirokoji-dori in Fushimi, the business district midway between Nagoya Station and Sakae. Opened in 1989, it has 460 rooms and suites, all 30 m² or larger, with interiors inspired by Nagoya Castle — headboards in the green of the castle roof, carpets patterned on its stone walls — Hilton Serenity beds, multi-standard sockets and USB ports by the bed. Hilton rooms come as king or twin; Deluxe rooms on the upper floors add a Nespresso machine and city views; Executive rooms and suites include the executive lounge, which moved to a new "Weekend House" space on the 2nd floor in November 2025 with breakfast, daytime refreshments and evening cocktails.
In Place 3-3, the all-day dining room in the atrium, serves the breakfast buffet (6:30–10:00, later at weekends) and premium lunch and dinner buffets; Ouchou is the Chinese restaurant; Genji serves Japanese cuisine at teppanyaki, tempura and kaiseki counters. Hideaway 3-3 is the bar and Café 3-3 the artisan sweets and bakery shop; room service is available.
The 7th-floor fitness centre — free for hotel guests — has a gym with about 20 Technogym machines open 24 hours, a 15 m indoor heated pool and jacuzzi, Japanese-style baths and dry saunas, massage treatments and an outdoor Decoturf tennis court with floodlights. The Hilton Plaza shopping arcade is in the basement; the hotel is an official partner of LEGOLAND Japan.
Fushimi station (Higashiyama and Tsurumai subway lines) is three minutes' walk and one stop from both Nagoya Station and Sakae; Nagoya Station is 15 minutes on foot or five by taxi. Chubu Centrair airport is 60–80 minutes by taxi, or about an hour by airport bus to the NE4 stop four minutes from the hotel. Underground parking for 200 cars (¥3,000 per night). Check-in 15:00, check-out 12:00.
Hilton Garden Inn Kyoto Shijo Karasuma opened on 23 November 2022 as the first Hilton Garden Inn in Japan. The nine-storey building stands on Karasuma-dori between Shijo and Gojo, in the Shimogyo ward of central Kyoto. Its 250 rooms come in nine types, from 20–23 m² standard rooms for two to 57 m² premium family rooms for up to six, decorated in pale wood with lattice screens and shoji-style window panels; every room has a flat-screen TV, work desk and free Wi-Fi.
Together & Co. is the all-day restaurant, serving Western and Japanese dishes made with seasonal Kyoto ingredients from breakfast through dinner. The Shop off the lobby sells local snacks, drinks and coffee 24 hours a day.
A fitness centre with cardio machines and free weights, self-service laundry and complimentary Wi-Fi throughout the hotel.
Shijo and Gojo stations on the Karasuma subway line are each a four-minute walk, and Kyoto Station is three minutes away by subway. Nishiki Market and the Shijo shopping streets are within walking distance; Gion and Nijo Castle are a short ride away.
Hotel Keihan Kyoto Hachijoguchi is a five-storey lodging-focused hotel on Hachijo-dori, south of Kyoto Station, opened by Keihan Hotels & Resorts on 1 December 2018. The 234 rooms on floors 2 to 5 are all non-smoking and decorated in a simple Japanese style with a tea set in each room: Single rooms are 14 m² with a 160 cm bed, Double and Twin rooms 17 m², and Moderate Twin rooms 22 m² with two 110 cm beds; Twin and Moderate Twin rooms take an extra bed for triple use. Free Wi-Fi throughout; a wheelchair-accessible room is available.
The ground-floor restaurant is run by Madoi, a Western-style restaurant founded in Kyoto in 1961. Breakfast is a buffet from 7:00 to 10:00 (¥2,530 adults, ¥1,265 primary-school children, preschoolers free) built around a salad bar, "fermentation × vegetables" dishes made with salt koji and sweet koji, Kyoto pickles and French toast cooked to order in front of you.
A large public bath on the ground floor with one indoor tub, one open-air tub and standing rain showers, separate for men and women, entered by PIN-coded electronic lock and open 15:00–25:00 and 6:00–10:00, with free ice cream afterwards (bath towels are taken from the room; guests with tattoos are not admitted). Self check-in kiosks, an amenity bar for toiletries, coin laundry with detergent-free washer-dryers, coin lockers for luggage, vending machines, microwaves, ice machine, water dispenser and a smoking area; eight outdoor parking spaces by telephone reservation (¥2,000 per night). Check-in from 15:00, check-out 11:00.
Five minutes on foot from the Hachijo East exit of JR Kyoto Station (Shinkansen, JR, Kintetsu and the Karasuma subway line). From Kansai airport about 75 minutes on the JR Haruka limited express or 85–90 minutes by limousine bus to the Kyoto Station Hachijoguchi stop; from Osaka Itami airport about 50 minutes by limousine bus.
Sheraton Miyako Hotel Osaka is run by Miyako Hotels & Resorts, the Kintetsu group hotel company whose original Miyako Hotel dates from 1890, and is a Marriott Bonvoy hotel under the Sheraton flag. The tower stands on the Uemachi Plateau in Tennoji ward, on top of Kintetsu Osaka-Uehommachi station. The 574 rooms are arranged by floor — Comfort, Sheraton, Premium and Executive — with twin, double and king rooms from about 31 m², and suites on the executive floors from the 45 m² Junior Suite to the 133 m² Imperial Suite; the 18th and 19th floors were renovated with new suites in 2025–26. Suite guests use the Sheraton Club lounge on the 20th floor, which serves breakfast, afternoon tea and evening cocktails with a view over the city.
Restaurant & Lounge, Bar eu serves French-based course menus and the breakfast buffet (6:30–10:00, 120 seats); Shisen is the Sichuan Chinese restaurant; Uemachi is the Japanese restaurant with kaiseki menus and private rooms; Café Belle is the café and gourmet shop.
A fitness gym on the first basement floor is free for guests 24 hours a day. The Miyako Health Club on the 5th floor is a members' club with a full-size indoor pool, sauna and gym (guests aged 12 and over). There is also a business centre, a hair salon, shops, and 22 banquet halls for up to 1,000 people. Parking for about 500 cars is shared with the adjoining Uehommachi car park.
The hotel is directly connected to Kintetsu Osaka-Uehommachi station, two stops (about three minutes) from Namba and a convenient base for day trips to Nara and Kobe. Limousine buses to Kansai International and Osaka Itami airports leave from in front of the hotel. Check-in 15:00, check-out 12:00.
Hotel Hommachi Miyako — officially Miyako City Osaka Hommachi — is the Miyako City-brand hotel that Kintetsu's Miyako Hotels & Resorts opened on 5 June 2020 in Kitakyuhoji-machi, in the Semba business district between Umeda and Namba. The building is planted with wood and greenery on a botanical theme, with a tree sculpture at the entrance, a second-floor lobby and a teak-root relief behind the reception desk. The 308 rooms run from 21 m² Moderate Doubles to 23 m² Superior Twins, Doubles and Hollywood Twins, 25 m² triples and 27 m² Wide View corner rooms; all have a balcony, a bathroom with a separate washing area beside the tub, an original Simmons mattress, a nanoe air purifier, free Wi-Fi and a Chromecast television. Floors 15 and 16 are the Premium Floor, with ReFa shower heads and hair dryers, bathrobes and a coffee machine.
HALOW, the modern Chinese brasserie with an open kitchen, serves the buffet breakfast (Chinese congee and dim sum alongside Western dishes, 7:00–10:00), lunch sets and à-la-carte dinner; it seats 80 and is closed for dinner on Tuesdays.
The BLOOM guest lounge is free for hotel guests from 7:00 to 22:00, with coffee, tea and soft drinks, a library and a printer; there is a coin laundry on the second floor. No pool or gym.
Sakaisuji-Hommachi station (Sakaisuji and Chuo lines) is a two-minute walk, with Nipponbashi two stops south and Shin-Osaka about 25 minutes away; Hommachi station on the Midosuji line, one stop from Shinsaibashi, is a few minutes further west.
Park Hotel Miyabitei stands in the middle of Noboribetsu Onsen, one of Hokkaido's best-known hot-spring towns, on the road up to the steaming Jigokudani valley (about 650 m away). It is roughly 15 minutes by bus from JR Noboribetsu station, 1 hour 10 minutes by car from New Chitose Airport and about 1.5 hours from Sapporo; the group also runs a paid coach from Sapporo's TV Tower. Guest floors run from the 2nd to the 10th floor, with the baths two levels below the lobby.
The 156 rooms include 48 tatami rooms (8 or 10 mats, for up to 5), 22 twin Western rooms of 20 m², 67 Japanese-Western rooms with tatami plus twin beds, and 18 deluxe rooms; all have a bath and washlet toilet, TV, fridge, safe, kettle, yukata and Wi-Fi. The hotel is one of the few in town built over its own springs and pipes five different waters, sulphur among them, into the large 'Jigoku no Yu' bath and separate open-air baths for men and women, open 2 pm to 9:30 am (note about 20 steps between the changing room and the bath). Meals are buffets of around 40 Japanese, Western and Chinese dishes in Restaurant Shiki. There is a lounge, a souvenir/convenience shop, a game corner, kids' corner and table tennis, and free on-site parking. Check-in is from 2 pm and check-out by 10 am.
Sapporo Tokyu REI Hotel stands at the corner of Minami 4-jo Nishi 5-chome in Susukino, Sapporo's dining and nightlife quarter: Susukino subway station (Namboku line, exit 4) is a 1-minute walk, Tanukikoji shopping arcade about 600 m, Odori Park a few minutes further and JR Sapporo Station about 7 minutes by car. The airport limousine bus from New Chitose Airport reaches Susukino in about 75 minutes. The 575 rooms are compact business-hotel rooms (standard singles 13.8 m², twins 18-23 m²) with free Wi-Fi and wired LAN, unit bath, TV, refrigerator and air purifier; there are also 3 suites.
Breakfast (6:30-10:00 am) is a buffet of about 50 dishes built around Hokkaido produce at the South West restaurant, and the Restaurant Plaza Sapporo on the ground floor has more than 15 independent eateries. Guests may use a free lounge with coffee and soft drinks (3:00-5:00 pm), a coin laundry, souvenir shop and a 24-hour foreign-currency exchange machine. Check-in is 3:00 pm and check-out 11:00 am; the 103-space underground car park costs 1,800 yen a night and there is a coach bay for group buses. Tokyu Hotels has announced the hotel will close on 31 August 2027.