Apartment Hotel 11 Namba Minami Shin-Imamiya II

I picked the two room, four bed option to accommodate three people and it was excellent. So much room! The Nankai train will bring you all the way from the airport but the walk from the station is just a little far especially if you have big bags. Once you're situated you're pretty close to three other train stations that will take you anywhere you want to go. There's a Don Quijote and a Daiso store nearby, and convenience stores with ATMs and where you can top up your rail card. You're also close to the Shinseki area with tons of shopping and dining. Finding the entrance to the hotel was a little confusing as the signage at street level was very small and we missed it at first. I didn't receive a wifi code so I had to message the hotel but they responded quickly. I had a couple of other questions and the hotel was responsive. The hotel has been remodeled and everything was in near perfect condition. There are no towel bars anywhere however and we resorted to hanging towels wherever we could. A nice feature is the washer/dryer in the bathroom. The instructions are in Japanese but by Googling the model number I found a manual for a similar model. The bad news is that the dryer function (8) will not actually get your clothes fully dry. We put our damp clothes on the hangers provided and then turned on the heat in the bathroom. There's a patio that would be great for hanging clothes but there's no clothesline. In all we had a great stay and would stay here again.

I picked the two room, four bed option to accommodate three people and it was excellent. So much room! The Nankai train will bring you all the way from the airport but the walk from the station is just a little far especially if you have big bags. Once you're situated you're pretty close to three other train stations that will take you anywhere you want to go. There's a Don Quijote and a Daiso store nearby, and convenience stores with ATMs and where you can top up your rail card. You're also close to the Shinseki area with tons of shopping and dining. Finding the entrance to the hotel was a little confusing as the signage at street level was very small and we missed it at first. I didn't receive a wifi code so I had to message the hotel but they responded quickly. I had a couple of other questions and the hotel was responsive. The hotel has been remodeled and everything was in near perfect condition. There are no towel bars anywhere however and we resorted to hanging towels wherever we could. A nice feature is the washer/dryer in the bathroom. The instructions are in Japanese but by Googling the model number I found a manual for a similar model. The bad news is that the dryer function (9) will not actually get your clothes fully dry. We put our damp clothes on the hangers provided and then turned on the heat in the bathroom. There's a patio that would be great for hanging clothes but there's no clothesline. In all we had a great stay and would stay here again.

It’s always a gamble reserving lodging in area you are unfamiliar with, let alone one that is in a completely different country than the one you live in. Apartment 11 was a pleasant surprise. The room itself was spacious and clean with a separate bedroom for me. My two 20 yo something girls occupied the remaining space. The neighborhood was quiet, felt safe, and was a few minutes walking distance to Tauren tower and the rail station. Several eateries and minimarts were nearby too. Management quickly responded to text messages.