http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-15T01:30:49Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/osaka%20hotel%20guide 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 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/3/83133/9725 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/9106/cordonbleu.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/Japanese-Love-Hotels-Map"><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/sunshinehill_story.jpg" align="right"></a> <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.]</i><p> Beyond the big, the gaudy, the crazy, the likely settings for romance not just unconventional but possibly illegal, there are the standard love hotels.<p> The ones that get the job done with a minimum of fiberglass mythical beasts bolted to the outside of the building. With outside decor that would not be altogether out of place for a regular tacky tourist hotel, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Cordon+Bleu/local/872"><b>Hotel Cordon Bleu</b></a> aims squarely at the middle of the the love hotel market, providing a setting for the average couple to make average love Judson 2007-10-03T10:06:50-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/2/102729/381 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/9106/hotellove.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/Japanese-Love-Hotels-Map"><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/sunshinehill_story.jpg" align="right"></a> <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.]</i><p> As Osaka is considered the loudest, brashest, gaudiest city in Japan, its only natural that the city's love hotels compete with the neon overload of the Dotonbori district and the deranged fantasy world of nearby Universal Studios Japan. &nbsp;For a business whose bread and butter is discretion, love hotels are hard to miss around here. &nbsp;Spread liberally throughout the city, love hotels are convenient landmarks, beacons of light on drunken stumbles home, and fodder for untold numbers of WTF tourist photos.<p> <p> Venerable as they are, Osaka's love hotels Judson 2007-10-02T14:37:28-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/