Hotel Osaka Tsuruhashi House, Osaka — Hotel in Osaka

[Tsuruhashi House]

Affordable price. Owner has patient to guide us to this guest house and her service is excellent.

Shared facilities: Washing machine (with laundry powder) Desc: Recommend to use default setting, else you will regret.

To dry your clothes, kindly go to self operated laundry service nearby (Momodaniten Coin Laundry).

Relaxing corner Desc: For chit-chat, reading or drinking.

Umbrella to rent (F.O.C) Garbage bag to replace in room (F.O.C) Less than 10 minutes walk to Tsuruhashi station. Free wifi First aid kit

Room facilities: Cloth cabinet Desc: 3-partition Cabinet included a 1/3 partition distributed quarterly complete with cloth hangers.

Bedroom Desc: Queen size bed room complete with bed sheet and cover and pillows.

Refrigerator (empty inside) Desc: A double-deck fridge consist of frozen & chill compartments.

TV (with control) Desc: I don't know how many channels there but certainly local channel are available.

Downlight (with control) Desc: A round downlight right on top of the bedroom with its' brightness adjustable.

Air conditioner (with heater and control) Desc: It can function as normal air-con and also a heater for warm up the room.

Water heater Desc: Beware of temperature changes as there is a delay and you may be scalded.

Compact kitchen (without cutlery) Desc: A size of cabinet with basin, water tap, separators, liquid dish cleaner and a pair of mugs.

Kettle (with electric stove) Desc: Beware not to wet the stove surrounding especially bottom of kettle or you will hear terrifying metal expanding sound. Note: Electric stove has a slow cool down time. Cautious: Steam from a heated kettle may trigger fire alarm.

I was shocked up 7 o'clock in the morning by fire alarm due to other guest house mate did not turn off the electric stove in time while the steam from kettle had arose for quite sometimes.

2-pin plug points Desc: Standard japanese wall plug points located in visible area.

Rubber shoes Desc: use in lavatory only.

Hair dryer Towel Hair conditioner Hair shampoo Body wash Hand soap Toilet paper (2 rolls, refill upon request) Tissue paper (1 box, refill upon request) Dustbin (1 in lavatory, 1 in room) Newspaper (optional, request from owner)

Other than that, have to bring it yourself.

Down sides: Lack of basic amenities: No tooth brush, tooth paste, hand towel, coffee and tea in packets.

Toilet bowl partition does not have drainage. Water accumulated will eventually become stagnant. I have to buy a towel from Lawson convenient store nearby just to get rid of it.

No concierge until the day you check out. Some apartments they do clean up your room every two days (In SouthYarra)

Noise insulation is not good. Do it quietly with your...

The hotel is nice. It is located at 5 minutes from Tsuruhashi train station and at 30 minutes from Osaka Castle which is very convenient. The room was pretty clean, I found a couple of hairs in the bathroom when we checked in but everything else was fine. The futons on the floor were extremely comfortable, we fell asleep very fast. There were some problems with air conditioning system (it is fine but it turns on very slowly). The service is great. The working lady allowed us to leave our suitcases for a while after check-out since our flight was in the evening and it was for free. I...

It's hard to find affordable accomodation in Japan, but this place was pretty good value. It's a short walk to the subway station and is tucked down a quiet street. It's a very unassuming building and I felt like I was living with the locals. ||The room was a good size with double bed - quite low to the ground - and TV on a small table. ||There is a kitchenette with hot plate and kettle, sink, dishes and fridge. ||The bathroom has a separate toilet and shower.||The WIFI was strong and I had access to the washing machine on-site.||I had a comfortable...