Imperial Hotel Osaka is a luxury hotel in central Osaka with elegant guest rooms, courteous service, and outstanding dining facilities. Complimentary shuttle bus access to JR Osaka Station make this hotel very convenient for Osaka’s main tourist locations. The hotel is also very conveniently placed for the spring cherry blossoms at Kema Sakuranomiya Park and for the Japan Mint Museum.
Guest Rooms
The Imperial Hotel Osaka has a large range of guest rooms and suites with either twin beds or double beds. The highest quality rooms can be found on floors 19 to 21. All rooms come with high speed internet access both wired and wireless, a TV with satellite channels and pay-per-view broadcasting, a private bar and refrigerator, a kettle, an in-room safe, a hair dryer, weight scales, and feather comforter duvets.
Rooms are also provided with Japanese tea, coffee and tea sets, newspapers, light cotton kimonos, and slippers. Bathroom amenities include shampoo, conditioner, soap, body soap, towels, toothbrush sets, shaving sets, cotton swabs, combs and brushes.
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Imperial Hotel Osaka
Breakfast & Dining
This hotel has six restaurants, a bar and two lounge areas.
Flying Tomato Café on the 2nd floor is a casual Western style buffet restaurant serving hamburger steak, beef curry, and clubhouse sandwiches.
Breakfast: 6.30 – 11.00
Lunch: 11.00 – 14.00
Dinner: 17.00 – 22.00
Osaka Nadaman on the 24th floor is a traditional Japanese restaurant with 180 years of fine dining history.
Breakfast: 7.00 – 9.30
Lunch: 11.30 – 14.30
Dinner: 17.30 – 21.30
Kyubey on the 24th floor is a Tokyo-style sushi restaurant.
Lunch: 11.30 – 14.30
Dinner: 17.30 – 21.30
Jasmine Garden on the 23rd floor is a Chinese restaurant serving Cantonese cuisine.
Lunch: 11.30 – 14.30
Dinner: 17.30 – 21.30
Les Saisons on the 23rd floor serves fine French classical cuisine and a variety of flavorful wines.
Lunch: 12.00 – 14.00
Dinner: 17.30 – 21.30
Closed on Mondays
Kamon on the 24th floor is an open grill restaurant serving teppanyaki cuisine and Japanese beef-steak.
Lunch: 11.30 – 14.30
Dinner: 17.30 – 21.30
The Old Imperial Bar is the hotel’s main bar on the 2nd floor.
Open: 17.00 – 24.00
The Rainbow Lounge is a cocktail lounge on the 23rd floor.
Open: 17.00 – 23.00
The Park Lobby Lounge is a relaxing tea room in a large, and airy atrium which often has live musical performances.
Open: 11.00 – 20.00
Breakfast is available at two different restaurants and also from room service. The Flying Tomato Café serves a buffet breakfast from 6.30 to 10.00 which costs 2,800 yen for adults, 1,400 yen for children aged 4 to 12, and is free for children aged 3 or younger. The restaurant Osaka Nadaman serves a Japanese style set breakfast with rice, soup, fish and side dishes for 2,700 yen between 7.00 and 9.30. A variety of room service breakfast options are available between 7.00 and 11.00.
Services & Facilities
This hotel has a Kids Room where guests can leave their children with highly trained staff. Both daycare and classroom services are available for a fee.
There is a business center on the 1st floor with three computers and printers with reliable high-speed internet connections. The fee for internet usage is 324 yen per 30 minutes.
There is a soundproofed music room in the basement with an upright piano, audio devices, and DVD player which all hotel guests may use.
In the hotel’s Annex Building there is a members’ fitness club with a swimming pool, public baths, sauna, tennis court, and golf practice course. Imperial Hotel members can use the fitness club for free but regular hotel guests will have to pay a fee of 2,160 yen for one day’s use of the pool, baths and sauna, or 5,400 yen of you also wish to use the sporting facilities.
Parking is available for 500 vehicles at 1,000 per night.
Access
Imperial Hotel Osaka is a 7 minute walk from Sakuranomiya Station on the JR Osaka Loop Line. There is also a free shuttle bus between the hotel and JR Osaka Station. This bus makes regular journeys every 15 minutes between the hours of 8.00 and 21.00 and takes about 15 minutes. You can find the shuttle bus stop at Osaka Station on the west side of the station building not far from the Sakurabashi Exit.
Imperial Hotel Osaka Location Map
Article and original photos by Michael Lambe. All rights reserved.