REF Kanku-Izumisano by VESSEL HOTELS

We stayed here the first night after flying into the Kansai Airport, which is only 10 minutes away by train. Because our flight arrived late in the evening, we did not want to travel to the central parts of Osaka, another 30-45 minutes away. The hotel is integrated with the train station buildings, so it was easy to take the train from the airport to the hotel without needing to walk much with luggage. We took advantage of the location and took a day trip by train to Wakayama the day after we arrived and before we went to Osaka. The hotel provides luggage storage. The room was small but well organized, and the hotel provided many amenities (toiletries, etc.) The hotel breakfast was luxurious, with many high-quality Japanese and Western options.

The hotel is awesome and offers good value. I especially liked the open-roof outside public bath. There are free soft drinks and coin laundromats. There are also many nice restaurants nearby. I would not base my trip around it, but I could stay here for a while.

Location, cost and breakfast was great as I expected no Western foods but had approx half breakfast for westerners, room is very small but you don't worry about that as we were in there only to sleep and 7/11 I so close to the hotel it's not funny!

Breakfast was a good array of Japanese options. Loved the communal spaces in level 12. Loved the onsen. Loved the black out blinds.

The room was very neat and clean. Public bath even had an outdoor pool which was very nice. Location right opposite train station was also super convenient. Best is how sound and light proof the windows and blinds are! We slept till 9am not realizing!