Sotetsu Fresa Inn Tokyo Kinshicho — Hotel in Tokyo

Sotetsu Fressa Inn Kinshicho Hotel Review

Greetings, so i am aiming to give as much professional opinions to you ,readers as possible, as my family own a 4 star hotel in Bali Island , so i came with a huge expectation coming to this hotel .

First of all, lets talk location, situated around 6 minute walking from kinshicho station, so its a positive start. Plus another major points, within less than 10 meters radius north and east from hotel , there are 2 family mart & 2 7/11 convenient stores. however, i also want to not recommend of takoyaki restaurant around hotel.

Second, upon looking at building, the exterior looks modern minimalist (japan style), and the interior lobby, despite not too spacy, have ALL the amenities and facilities you need as a traveler, you said it ,they have it (from rest rooms, beverages & hygiene amenities, “yukata” pajamas, microwave, luggage scale, foreign exchange machine service, even a foreign translator machine & many more).

Third, corridor hall looks simple yet modern & the colour palette are giving a warm,soothing & calm vibe so the design uniformity is pretty consistent. And room( we choose standard) looks exactly consistent to the images we got.

before i say anything, i stay there for almost 11 days so i have been observing the staff& a manager a lot. first during check in, as always service is straight forward professional, patient and friendly, however, i say this always, if you practice speaking very very even basic “baby level” japanese to them, that would totally increase your friendly interaction &experience to staff.

Also,everytime you pass them on hall, mostly they will greet you, which always a very plus service. Even so i ask them to help me keep my 3 medium sizes luggages for a day after me& my girl check out, since we go to trip at hakone area and will return back to their hotel, without even a small hustle, they just say “sure no problem ”, to me thats a very positive aspect.

On the more detail important note, this hotel is strategically blessed, first, within radius of 10-20 meters there are at least 6 unique selling points : a “Life” brand supermarket store in a 7-9 stories building mall, public park, various local cafes, diners, a small “yokocho” & many more. one particular is a local book store name “book off” which is a store where you can get any type of literature ( novels, comics, manga, magazine, books) at almost 1-3 dollar USD. Its mostly locals only, and its a great experience for you if you never been there.

So in short, sotetsu fressa inn its for people who aim to stay in underrated hotel ( i rarely see chinese indonesians or indonesians ) over there, mostly are either middle up millenials westerners (americans) or milenials asians( south korea, japan or middle up china), let be honest, you wouldnt like stay in hotels where there are many noisy &annoying tourist from any parts of world countries.

In numerical ratings, as follows:

Location:8.6/10.0

Design: 7.5/10.0

Service:8.9/10.0

Amenities:8.9/10.0

Hope my reviews are useful for your considerations and if you like simple but effective result,i definitely recommend this sotetsu fressa...

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