Capsule Inn Otsuka

De kamer is redelijk goed. Aziaten gehoorzamen de hotelorder beter dan blanken en zwarten. Het hotel is schoon en de service is warm en attent

Ik geef toe dat de omgeving erg goed is. In principe is de omgeving van Japanse hotels erg goed. Dit capsulehotel heeft echter te veel regels. Je moet je schoenen uitdoen als je het hotel binnengaat voor twee dagen heb je een reispas nodig om 's nachts uit te gaan. De kluisjes voor bagage zijn extreem klein. De meeste bewoners zijn Japans. Het is erg lastig als je de taal niet verstaat. Er zijn veel regels tegen jou en het kost me te veel tijd elke keer als ik uitga. Als dit je eerste keer is, raad ik je aan niet in dit hotel in Japan te verblijven. De Japanners zijn erg vriendelijk en bereid om mij te helpen als ik problemen tegenkom. Dit is erg goed en kan in China niet worden ervaren.

De locatie is echt goed. Het personeel is ook vriendelijk. Het nadeel is dat je elke dag om 10 uur moet uitchecken. Dit is geen goede optie voor degenen die laat komen of laat opblijven. Accommodatie voor kortetermijngasten. Er is een restaurant met varkenskoteletten recht tegenover, dus zorg ervoor dat je daarheen gaat.

Handige accommodatie vlakbij het treinstation. Alle handige faciliteiten Er is een sauna en onsen. Maar je moet elke dag in- en uitchecken, ook als je meerdere dagen blijft.

No private showers whatsoever, you have to use the public spa which you cannot wear clothes for, I truly love Japan and its culture but the fact there is no public shower is remarkably strange, also you cannot just leave if you need to, you have to exchange your key for a shoe locker key and they then will give you a “temporary leaving pass” as a Japanese person I’m Sure this is fine but as a westerner I would be cautious of the specifics of this place.

perfect for solo traveler with free hotspring. highly recommended 👍🏻

good place to stay if you are on a budget

I liked this place. A pretty standard classic capsule hotel: sizeable capsule with a console, daily turnover service, large shower and onsen room with an attached steam room. Service was good: they have an army of twinks working there after hours, it was like being checked in by BTS. All issues I had with my capsule (broken lightbulb) were addressed quickly and cheerfully. Sometimes it kinda seemed like they were laughing at a few of the foreign guests, but you know what, fair. This place is kinda rules heavy, with lots of notices posted around the property. There is no eating or drinking in the capsules, and instead you have to go to this common area that feels a bit like a hospice for abandoned uncles. Vending machines, manga library, smoking cubicles, that sorta thing. Clean and tidy though, equal numbers of dudes using it for remote working and day drinking (I have a feeling that some ppl live in this place). They have the usual elaborate system of lockers and keys, but they will store your luggage for you while you are out. No need to check out in the day. Overall a chill experience. While I was staying there though some dude did have a mini breakdown about what he saw as it's shortcomings, so I just wanted to comment on that. According to him the place was disgusting. He was especially perturbed by the housekeeping service and the showers. His claim was the the toilets were dirty and that it was unacceptable to fold bedsheets on the floor. Mind you, he was having this rant at 10:30 - checkout is at 10:00, meaning that a whole stampede of airport-bound weebs had just taken spicy ramen fuelled power dumps so they could get out of there on time. Most of the day the facilities were pretty spotless in my opinion. In regards to folding the bedsheets on the floor, I dunno what in the Disney princess he was expecting, but there really isn't anywhere else to do it. I think it's unreasonable to expect little doves to come fly your linens into your capsule tbh. The capsules are literally on... the floor! What do you want? His overall complaint that the space was generally messy was a lot more valid. At this point I had a suspicion that they kind of segregated foreigners from Japanese customers. It's true, that the foreign floor was a bit of a tip - luggage thrown around, empty bottles everywhere, garbage. I went up to the Japanese floors to snoop around a bit. Spotless. (Pictures of both included for comparison) In this case I think the call is coming from inside the capsule, not really fair to hold the staff accountable to your own messy manners. His final gripe was about the showers - specifically the lack of private cubicles. Private cubicles were not advertised anywhere and Japanese onsens are pretty standardly communal spaces, so again I dunno what he wanted. Maybe a shower, with a curtain? Maybe a shower with a door? Maybe a shower with a psychic forcefield that would make his ex girlfriends forget his underwhelming junk and prevent his father from behind disappointed in him? I'm not sure. But I guess the dozen shower stations with soap, shampoo, and face wash weren't cutting it. In fact a lot of the Western guests seemed pretty pranged out by the shower situation, waiting until like two am to wash up and then scurrying around the baths with a hand towel infront of their package like a little purse. If you regret going bald, that's on you. Kinda silly, but if you are bashful maybe this also isn't the hotel for you. Unreasonable though to blame the establishment for you own shame. Anyway, that's all to say the worst part of my stay was for sure the ranting and raving from an unshowered backpacker while I was trying to have a lie in. Otherwise a pretty decent stay.