APA Hotel Midosuji Hommachi Ekihigashi

Great hotel, amazing staff

This hotel does a lot of work with a small space, yielding good value for budget travelers. You can be safe and clean in the center of this vibrant bustling city for a price far below nearly any city in Europe, the USA, Australia or NZ. In exchage for living in a very compact room (or larger if you pay extra for more beds) you get: Clean premises and new or like-new functional elements, & an ice machine (or "ice engine") is available. Nearby, you may want to explore a spectacular Buddhist temple. Also in adjacent streets there are many varieties of restaurants and izakaya, self-service coin laundry in the hotel or on a nearby street, museums and many excellent transportation options to get around and beyond Osaka. Efficiency and automation are the key to this hotel, and the staff will help you competently in Japanese or English if you need help. This neighborhood is part of an area once known as regional hub for pharmacy companies, a tradition still carried on by some large pharma companies today. As a result, the neighborhood hosts relatively well-paid professionals, but not as many tourists as the famous districts in Osaka. The vibe is business/professional, tidy quiet and well-organized. I saw two police officers on bicycle patrol, a wonderful example of simple and efficient solution to the problem of solving the final 5 percent of social problems in this city that effective cultural education and personal citizen responsibility do not fully cover.

Hotel is in a very good location. Not for from the subway station and good coffee shops nearby. However, rooms are very small. Me and my husband had to change to a twin room just to get our luggage in as there was hardly any space to walk about in the double room. Rooms are nice and clean

About 8-10 min walk from the closest metro station. Quite a way if you did whole day walking. The rooms are extremely small, just enough space to make a step from the bed to the wall… the bathroom is as small as a small closet. The staff at the front desk not very friendly… we arrived at 2:45pm… they asked us to wait until 3pm to check in. When asked for recommendations or directions told us to use Google map. One thing was amazing is how clean the property is. Cleaning staff are doing a really good job!

Nice place

Thank you for a pleasant stay

Rooms: Dusty with some sort of weird vent that blows cold air from outside (in the middle of winter!) into the room nearly directly above the bed. Service: They don't clean at all other than changing towels and linens. The room clearly hasn't been vacuum or dusted, possibly ever. I tested out whether they clean by noting where the dust, hair, and other dirt was. The day they "cleaned" the room, all the dirt was still in the same places. They also don't replace the amenities properly. I use hair ties but half the time they aren't replaced even after they've "cleaned" the room. Location: quiet which is nice but far from subway and attractions Building: only 1 elevator for the entire hotel which has 14 floors, so it can take a while to use it and be crowded. The maids leave the doors in the hallways to the outside open the entire time they clean the floor; meaning hours of winter cold coming down the hallway and into the rooms. Bottom line: this hotel is worse than other APA hotels

Points of transportation were walkable. There’s a store right next to the hotel

Very clean room. A bit tight if you have large luggage but I just had a small bag so it was fine. Since they had all amenities and robe for sleeping it was great for a short business stay. There are several APA hotels in the area so just be sure you are going to the right one!

The room was very hot. The hotel already had the heat on and told us to open the window to cool down. The shower kept soaking the bathroom floor. And there was only one elevator in the whole hotel. They also broke our suitcase while holding it prior to check in.

Hotel is ok but breakfast is not advisable to include for the stay. No variety at all for breakfast. Same thing for 5 days when we stayed. Sadly to say, we paid the highest breakfast fee to all our stay for our japan vacation. The lady at the breakfast hotel was watching what people are eating. She's annoying.the breakfast place is so small and 18 people can eat only at the same time.

The hotel was very clean. They provide many little extra things like toothbrushes, slippers, hair bobbles and razors. Also they have a microwave on second floor to heat your food. We were very impressed for the price. Reception were very polite when entering and leaving building saying hello and goodbye. Hotel is about 10 min walk from metro roughly about 20 mins away from Namba We would recommend staying here

Small rooms but have everything you need! Very quiet and clean

It was good generally

Overall it was a good hotel, the only downside there’s no laundry available and room has limited storage space it can get pretty cramped. It’s also a smaller APA hotel so they only have one elevator. Would rate 3.5-4/5 stars.

A tiny room with all amenities needed, in a good location, and close to the metro. Suggestion: make the bathroom soundproof by using a proper door that closes hermetically. The room is already really tiny. The current door makes that all the tiny sounds are heard inside/outside the bathroom.

Close to the station, directly next door to the convenience store and a pretty nice walk to everything around that you could need.

Hotel lovely, rooms small but adequate, breakfast basic

Short walk to the station. Convenience store right next door which was handy. Very clean and staff are very polite.

Everything went very well, I had a such great time !