HotelChatter - Osaka http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-09T04:04:45Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/ The Hello Kitty Room at the Hotel Adonis is Gone Forever http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/15/3959/58798 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/hello_kitty_love_hotel_1.jpg " class="top"><p> <p>No! Say it isn't true! HotelChatter tipster <b>quimbys</b> has just passed on some devastating news to us from on-the-spot in Osaka. Allow us to explain our distress &#133;<p>We're sure you haven't forgotten one of our favorite Japanese love hotels, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Adonis+Osaka/local/576"><b>Hotel Adonis </b></a> in Tennoji, central Osaka. As if the whole love hotel concept isn't fascinating enough, the Adonis was specializing in cute-character-themed S&M and was home to the famous <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/16/104138/231/hotels/Hello_Kitty_S_M_Room_At_Hotel_Adonis_Osaka">Hello Kitty S&M Room</a>. Note the use of past tense here? That's because this is the recent news from on the ground:<blockquote><p>I went by there this morning, January 11, 2009, and the place was inexplicably closed. My guess is that authorities found out about amandak 2009-01-15T10:03:02-05:00 The Fun of the Fair at Hotel Public Jam http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/16/6557/0929 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/publicjamstory.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/Japanese-Love-Hotels-Map"><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/pamplona_story.jpg" align="right"></a> <p>Over in love-hotel-mad Osaka, there's a weirdly named love hotel that we haven't exposed yet: the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Public+Jam/local/898/"><b>Hotel Public Jam</b></a> in southern downtown Osaka, near the Uehonmachi station. Hotel Public Jam (or Hotel PJ for those in the know) has a pretty extensive <a href="http://www.public-jam.com/">website</a> with a menu all in English: but with all of the content only in Japanese. What we can tell you is there seems to be a high proportion of pink used in the Hotel PJ rooms.</p><p>To give you a bit more info, the <a href="http://www.quirkyjapan.or.tv/hotels.html">Quirky Japan</a> site had this to say in summary of the Public Jam:</p><blockquote><p> This cute, modern hotel is fairly unexceptional except for the merry-go-round amandak 2007-10-16T13:05:43-05:00 No Bulls at the Love Hotel Pamplona in Osaka http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/7/72942/7554

We've tried looking outside Osaka for some hotel lovin', but apart from Tokyo's very colorful Hotel J Girl they just don't stack up in terms of weird features, kinky rooms and razzle dazzle. So it's back to Osaka where we're thinking of trying out the Hotel Pamplona, because staying in a love hotel sounds like something that really should be likened to the running of the bulls, agreed?

Situated in downtown Dotonbori (the heart of Osaka, and the name of the river as well as the main street), Hotel Pamplona meets our requirements by having a colorfully interesting front door and some really weird stuff going on inside.

MORE ]]> amandak 2007-10-09T12:05:47-05:00 Love Hotel Hell: Hotel Chapel Christmas http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/4/1074/07105

[Ed. Note: Jaunted contributor AJ McGuire recently finished a tour of Osaka and reported back to us on the town's changing love hotel scene.]

Sure, sure, different strokes for different folks and all that but this? While restraint and good taste have never been guiding lights for the love hotel industry, coaxing couples to put in some labor at Santa's cotton candy colored workshop, AKA Hotel Chapel Christmas, seems to be crossing some sort of line.

MORE]]> Judson 2007-10-08T09:20:01-05:00 Osaka Comfort Hotel: Viva La Banality! http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/5/94521/9770 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/9106/chsign.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><i>[Ed. Note: Jaunted contributor <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/Judson"><b>AJ McGuire</b></a> recently finished a tour of Osaka and reported back to us on the town's changing love hotel scene. But today, we have a treat. A normal, non-love hotel. Enjoy.]</i><p> <p> Yeah, I know. Its not like the NY Times Food and Wine section is reviewing local Burger Kings but think of the context. This is Osaka and thus we've passed through the looking glass and lodging in a Comfort Hotel is now <i>exotic</i>. <p> Is your B.S. detector going off yet? No? Good, stay with me. The true beauty of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Comfort+Htl+Osaka+Shinsaibash/ian/207207"><b>Comfort Hotel Shinsaibashi</b></a> is that it's exactly what it says on the label: a budget-priced, American-style hotel right in Judson 2007-10-05T14:37:32-05:00 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/