This is the last hotel we stayed in our recent 12 days trip. The hotel location is strategic and is right next on your left when you come out from nagahori subway station exit 4. If you have lots of baggages and not convenient to shift your luggages through the staircase, you could use the carpark access lift. Once come... More

First off, we are just back from a one month trip across Japan, and we stayed in several hotels but also different styles (from guest house to ryokan, small rest hotel to colossal 25 floors premise). This is the ONLY hotel that we were disappointed with and cannot recommand for the following reasons: -clealiness of the room (walls were dirty,... More

Though it is a 3 stars hotel that I shouldn't expect too much . The basic thing for a hotel should be clean and tidy . The room wasn't clean, the wall was dirty. Besides, we booked a semi triple room at this hotel which shows a three single beds on the website . When I checked in , they... More

We'd stayed a night in Osaka previously, and had learnt the hard way that Japanese hotel rooms are mostly shoeboxes, so this time I researched room sizes before booking. I chose the Ark Hotel because for a reasonable price we could enjoy 3 nights in an 18sqm double room. It paid off - we had room on the floor up... More

Ark Hotels are a chain of hotels in Japan and you can find one in each major city. We stayed in the Osaka hotel which is located near Shinsaibashi and Namba. It was at Nagahoribashi station (next to Shinsibashi) right outside of exit 4. Our twin room was quite big and had a good view. The windows opened which made... More