Osaka Fujiya Hotel — Hotel in Osaka

The hotel is decorated in a simple Japanese style. It is a bit old but clean and tidy. The facilities in the room are in good order, and there are even disinfectants and shoe-wearing tools. On the surface, it can be given 95 points. But I didn't sleep for two days in three days. The sound insulation inside the hotel is not ordinary poor. You can hear the whispers in the next room. What is even more unacceptable is that the noise of the facilities inside the room is constant, and all kinds of noise are very annoying. As a person who sleeps very well, I basically didn't sleep for two days because of these noises inside and outside. The floor where I lived on the first night should be a group. Several rooms knocked on each other's doors, opened and closed the doors, and made loud noises until five in the morning (it is necessary to explain that this group was loudly speaking Japanese or Korean), which made the already noisy environment even worse. I called the front desk, but the front desk didn't care. The next day, I asked to change the floor, and the front desk was also perfunctory and bureaucratic. Overall, this hotel looks good on the surface, but the actual experience...

The hotel is near dotonbori, which is convenient if you want to try a variety of local and non-local cuisine, as well as if you feel like doing some shopping. Aside from the location there is nothing redeeming about the hotel. My friend booked a 2 night stay for a non-smoking room but we managed to stay only for 1 night. The moment we got to our floor there was an odour of cigarette smoke that only intensified when we entered our room. I decided to talk to the concierge about the smell to which he tried to resolve by assigning us a different a room. My friend and I went to check the new room, and we were assaulted by the more unpleasant smoke odour. We went back to the concierge, and he provided us a local Febreeze brand to spray our room with, which didn't help at all. We slept with the only window that faces another building open and the street smell, a combination of sewer and old frying oil, wafted into our room. The stay was so unbearable that I talked my friend into changing accommodation on our last night in Osaka, and neither of us cared that we loss money for booking last minute with another hotel. I highly advise against staying at Osaka...

One thing that a tourist to Japan can be assured of is that places are exceptionally clean wherever he goes. So the last thing I expected when checking in the Fujiya Hotel was a stained table in the room. The table was stickly with oily and syrup alike stains. It is not wear and tear. I had to wipe the table clean with a wet towel ... and managed to remove the stain. So I had been doing the job of the cleaning lady. ||||Another surprise was that, if you stay for two nights, they would not set the bed for you on the second day. I can understand (and support) the idea of not changing the sheets every day for environmental reason. But not even setting the bed ( in fact, no vacuum cleaning was evident as all the slippers remained at the same position as when I left the room) is totally news to me. ||||The room is very small. The beds are not even 2 feet 6 inches wide. ||||There are so many new middle priced hotels in Osaka. Fujiya seems to be doing everything to get itself shuffled to the losing end of the competitiveness...