Guest House Umikaji - Hostel

Staff were the best & helped me a lot with everything. The Best Hostel I have ever been to & would stay again.

Had a wonderful time staff is absolutely fantastic. The place is clean safe and very friendly. The beds are comfortable. Didn’t care to much for the blackout drapes ( I like total darkness when I sleep) these are see through a little. The bathroom and showers are clean private. Will stay again . The staff really makes the difference you can tell they take pride in there work o lots of steps have a bad knee but pushed through keep in mind with large luggage.. staff helped an old man out .. thank you all so much.

The hostel is great! Have enough space for your stay, the facilities are in good condition and user friendly.

Hospitality management training is necessary

My stay was very cheap and good quality for the money I paid :)

Staff members work very hard and do a great job cleaning. Thank you.

Great

Very comfortable near the monorail station. If I have an opportunity to go to Okinawa. I will be selected at this hostel again.

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This was my first hostel experience and I enjoyed it very much. I would stay here every time if I decided to visit Okinawa again.

A good stay here. They have a nice lounge with many chairs/tables. 3 toilet and 3 shower rooms on each dormitory floor. The beds are very comfortable, tho they can be a little dusty because the bed frame decor is made from pipes and that can be a hassle to clean....i think. I look forward to staying here again :)

It is very neat, tidy, cozy and modern. I also had one of the best how showers I’ve enjoyed when traveling to Japan. Incredible guest house, incredible location for an incredible price.

Very clean place, including the common areas and shared bathrooms and showers

Clean hostel closed to Kokusai Dori.Decent place with basic amenities to sleep at night.

Enjoyed this place! Close to the main Street for shopping and the beach and one of the rail train station. Has all the necessary things to have a good stay

Staff is nice Room is always clean Location good Except, some roommates was snoring😔😔

I have spent the past two months traveling around hostels in Japan, and this is one of the nicest I've stayed in! The beds were comfortable and clean, and there is a curtain that you can pull over the bed for privacy. The showers were small but clean, as were the toilets. You can buy toiletries or rent a towel pretty cheaply from the front desk, and check out is extremely easy (just drop you key card into a box at the front desk).

The guest house is located not far away from the Kokurai Shopping street so it's quite convenient. You need to pay 200Yen to leave the luggage with them temporarily even you have a booking with them. Would suggest that the guest house have some area for people to hang their clothes as many have just put their washed clothes all over the place in the dorm and this creates strong smell in the room. There's no shower gel and shampoo like the normal Japanese hostel/guesthouse. The lift is not operating so if your bed is on the 5th floor it can be inconvenient for people to climb the stairs.

Hostel was around 3 minutes walk away from Prefectural Office station, which is itself a 7 story shopping mall! Facilities were good and bed was comfy.

This is my second review of this hostel, as I stayed twice, as mentioned in that review as well. Umikaji is centrally located in Naha, near the monorail, near Kokusai Dori, and conveniently placed near a multitude of izakaya and other places to eat, drink, and purchase goods. The staff at Umikaji have always been helpful, if not always chatty. But this is understandable since many of the guests tend to be Caucasian and may not speak Japanese (I was an exception but they may not have known). But they all work hard and are very accommodating. One issue and question I had was with the lift they have, which supposedly was used to bring up luggage to the floors the guests would be staying on. This has never been used in the approximate month I stayed here. While a staff member always helped me carry my things up to the fifth floor, I want to know why the lift is not used. Overall, this is a great place to stay with reasonable cost. I would recommend it to anyone.