Hotel Route Inn Nagoya Sakae — Hotel in Nagoya

This brand "Route Inn" has been my top no.1 choice whenever I come to Japan. Like all other Route Inn, this one in Sakae has: ||||(1) a very hearty and yummy Japanese buffet breakfast. There are some western food too but I simply enjoy and focus on the Japanese choices: rice, egg pocket with minced pork stuffed, sauteed pork and vegetable, fish, fried squid ring, and asparagus! The kind of food is not the same each day. You know how blissful I feel in the morning with a bowl of hot and quality Japanese rice in hand.||||Breakfast time is 6:30-9am. It's rather early for me such a lazy tourist. So I went back to sleep until noon.||||(2) 99% of guests are local people. So, tranquil ambience and polite treatment are guaranteed. No noise, no pushing, no inconsiderate behaviour met at breakfast room, lobby, lift, everywhere. In my second breakfast at 8am, the restaurant was super crowded and the guests still kept queuing up orderly and quietly in gettting the food. Japanese people deserve every respect from me.||||(3) an onsen (though artificial). It's my MUST-DO every night before sleep.||||These 3 are the things I like most. The price is good too. USD130 for two nights single room including breakfast. Other brands like Toyoko Inn are not comparable as they have many foreign guests (mainly Chinese, Hongkongers, other Asians), much more noisy though price better.||||The room is standard Japanese style. Small, everything required is well provided including air-purifyer, kettle, fridge, shampoo, conditioner, bath gel. Moulded toilet. My room is facing a flyover and there is traffic noise day and night. But the window shut down nearly all the noise when closed, and there is a functional air-con, so not a problem. Bed quite hard. Around 8 TV channels all Japanese.||||Location wise in Sakae area, though not as good as Nagoya Station. 10 mins' walk to Sakae metro station exit 12. There are a few department stores and many underground streets nearby. The restaurant next door provides good sashimi of great price. There is a shuttle bus from airport (platform no.6) ~50 mins going to Nagoya Toyku Hotel which is just in front of this inn. Bus fare 1000 yen but schedule sparse. So better take the express train from airport to Nagoya Station (35 mins) then transfer to Sakae metro station.||||Staff nice and helpful. Only one knows English but that's not a problem for me as I love to practise my limited Japanese. It's fun.||||Check-out time is 10am which is common in Japan. It's too early for me such a lazy tourist.||||Overall, Route Inn is always a great factor contributing to my wonderful...

This brand "Route Inn" has been my top no.1 choice whenever I come to Japan. Like all other Route Inn, this one in Sakae has: ||||(1) a very hearty and yummy Japanese buffet breakfast. There are some western food too but I simply enjoy and focus on the Japanese choices: rice, egg pocket with minced pork stuffed, sauteed pork and vegetable, fish, fried squid ring, and asparagus! The kind of food is not the same each day. You know how blissful I feel in the morning with a bowl of hot and quality Japanese rice in hand.||||Breakfast time is 6:30-9am. It's rather early for me such a lazy tourist. So I went back to sleep until noon.||||(2) 99% of guests are local people. So, tranquil ambience and polite treatment are guaranteed. No noise, no pushing, no inconsiderate behaviour met at breakfast room, lobby, lift, everywhere. In my second breakfast at 8am, the restaurant was super crowded and the guests still kept queuing up orderly and quietly in gettting the food. Japanese people deserve every respect from me.||||(3) an onsen (though artificial). It's my MUST-DO every night before sleep.||||These 3 are the things I like most. The price is good too. USD130 for two nights single room including breakfast. Other brands like Toyoko Inn are not comparable as they have many foreign guests (mainly Chinese, Hongkongers, other Asians), much more noisy though price better.||||The room is standard Japanese style. Small, everything required is well provided including air-purifyer, kettle, fridge, shampoo, conditioner, bath gel. Moulded toilet. My room is facing a flyover and there is traffic noise day and night. But the window shut down nearly all the noise when closed, and there is a functional air-con, so not a problem. Bed quite hard. Around 8 TV channels all Japanese.||||Location wise in Sakae area, though not as good as Nagoya Station. 10 mins' walk to Sakae metro station exit 12. There are a few department stores and many underground streets nearby. The restaurant next door provides good sashimi of great price. There is a shuttle bus from airport (platform no.6) ~50 mins going to Nagoya Toyku Hotel which is just in front of this inn. Bus fare 1000 yen but schedule sparse. So better take the express train from airport to Nagoya Station (35 mins) then transfer to Sakae metro station.||||Staff nice and helpful. Only one knows English but that's not a problem for me as I love to practise my limited Japanese. It's fun.||||Check-out time is 10am which is common in Japan. It's too early for me such a lazy tourist.||||Overall, Route Inn is always a great factor contributing to my wonderful...

Stayed for business and for the weekend to explore the Sakae area. ||||The hotel is about a 10 min walk from the Sakae train station and easy to find. Plenty of small bars and restaurants located around the hotel area in the backstreets.||||Room was a pretty typical Japan hotel room - on the small side, clean, a few basic amentities and some nice slippers! Wifi is a problem all around Nagoya I found, as noted in other reviews, you need to register on Japanese websites and probably need a japanese local number to receive SMS etc. Bring a LAN cable.||||Staff were super polite but English was a little problematic (and my Japanese is terrible) - however don't let that put you off, things can resolve with printed calendars and showing paper copies of itineraries etc.||||Breakfast was included in my rate and was quite a large spread of standard Japanese hot+cold breakfast, was perfectly fine. hotel price was so-so, but very cheap compared to the other hotels in Sakae for the weekend.||||would certainly stay again if needing a launching pad...