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Just a stone’s throw from Ikebukuro, Otsuka provides a unique “retro-Tokyo” feel. Unlike the bustling shopping districts and vibrant nightlife located elsewhere on the Yamanote Line, Otsuka is a place to experience the charm of old Tokyo. Nothing is more nostalgic than the ring of the old Metro Electric Railway’s bell. *The opening date, June 11th 2020, has been postponed until further notice. Please check our property website for more details.
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HOTEL STYLE
Trendy
Family
Languages Spoken
English, Japanese
Location
2-26-1 Kitaotsuka, Toshima 170-0004 Tokyo Prefecture
Name/address in local language
OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka by Hoshino Resorts
4.5 reviews
Getting there
Good for walkers
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Awesome hotel in a quaint location stone throw away from Tokyo hotspots
Location: 3mins walk from Otsuka station, only Yamanote line, station has elevator so carrying your luggage is fine. Surrounded by Mcdonalds, starbucks, Atre shopping mall, daiso, donquijote, 7-11, green lawson, family mart, pronto, mos burger, supermarket, variety of local food establishment
Hotel: lobby located on 1st floor, very local setting and decors, huge map of Otsuka displayed on wall, passing by the dj bar, restaurant, dining area, and reception before reaching the guest elevators. Amenities and souvenir available before taking the elevator only accessible by hotel guest
Laundry: located at the floor above reception with coin operated wash and dryer. Laundry detergent also made available from vending machines alongside microwave, iron and ironing board
Room: duplex style rooms made the room ultra spacious, ample of space and compartments to store our luggages and shoppings. Sharp airpurifier available and working, local tv channels, extra tatami mat available to turn the living space into the 3rd bedding, upper duplex purely just for sleeping with 2 single bed combine where my family of 3 comfortably sleeps. Shower and toilet are seperated, shower area comes with bathtub and a stool for our tired asses to sit while showering, water pressure is just perfect and hot water temperature is highly relaxing. Like all japanese toilet, the toilet seat defaulted comes with Toto warming seat and auto bidet
Highly recommended Will definitely return but will opt for other OMO locations in Japan!
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Date of stay: November 2023Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Only one variant of room available, the duplex
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The hotel is a god send. Quirky, and modern with a subtle touch of a ryokan in some aspects. Shoes off as you enter your room, in traditional style. In addition, the room is kid-friendly, with enough spaces to hang and compartments to use. Cute enough, the room has a loft to rest for the night. Self check-in was a breeze, and the staff were amazingly polite, friendly and helpful. Lift lobby looks candid, and friendly with co-working spaces and also for guests to dine in. There’s always music played from 8.30-10pm from a live-DJ. Amenities are provided near the guests’ lifts, and even pyjama/kimono for guests. There’s a level with laundry, ice cubes, cups, ironing equipment and typical Japanese vending machines selling drinks and detergents.
Otsuka is a mere 1 stop away from Ikebukuro, and few stops from both sides of colourful Shinjuku/Harajuki/Shibuya and busy Ueno/Tokyo/Ginza via Yamamoto JR line.
It’s a calm neighbourhood, and they have everything here. Eateries and joints like McDonald’s, Starbucks, 24 hrs Don Donki, and all the mainstream convenience stores; not forgetting the halal options for Muslims. All within vicinity of the train station.
Love the vibe here as well, and will opt OMO5 Otsuka as our first choice when we return to Tokyo. .
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Date of stay: December 2024Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Connected mainly via Yamanote line, and it can get busy at times.
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Perfect hotel in perfect location with perfect room and perfect services. Hotel location is only 2 minutes by walking from Otsuka station, surround by local sushi restaurant, convenience stores, shops, community mall, park, "antique train" is pass behind the hotel and just neighbor with that famous ONIGIRI BONGO restaurant, which always queue for onigiri (wanna try ?).
The room is equipped with excellent amenities, Bodum glass, towel, hair dryer, air humidifier machine, refrigerator, water heater, shampoo, conditioner & shower gel. decorated with warm wooden color and bedroom located at mezzanine level with proper stairs, for people with height like me is a challenge to keep my head hit from ceiling, but this is how Japanese build the rooms, so just enjoy and keep bend down, complete the Japanese bathroom with shower and bathtub experience.
Absolute suggest you to have experience in this Japanese hotel.
Good location, good hotel, PERFECT !!! love this hotel.
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Date of stay: February 2020
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Room Tip:The have own local walking tour, recommended.
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Response from Hoshino_Resorts, お客様担当マネージャー at OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka by Hoshino Resorts
Responded 13 Aug 2020
Dear Suyo W Thank you for taking the time to review OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka! We appreciate your detailed comments and are happy to hear that you enjoyed your stay, from the location to the amenities and the guest rooms even keeping your bend down. We will continue to evolve our product as we strive to provide both an authentic and comfortable experience for our guests. Thank you again for your review, and we would certainly welcome an opportunity to serve you again at one of our unique accommodations in the future! Sincely,
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This was the best hotel we stayed in throughout our whole two weeks in Japan! The rooms were spacious and there was plenty of room to repack our bags. The beds were extremely comfortable, and the included pyjamas were a massive bonus! Location wise it’s fantastic, a two minute walk from Otsuka station which is on the Yamato line, that links you to all the main site seeing places in Tokyo. Also the area around the hotel had a lovely atmosphere with great bars and shops! Would definitely book again!
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Date of stay: October 2024
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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It’s my second time staying in OMO hotels and highly recommend the hotels as they are well designed with all thoughtful details to suit the needs of the customers. Staff are friendly and helpful, attentive to our needs. Surely will explore more OMO hotels and love it
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Date of stay: April 2024Trip type: Travelled with family
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The hotel is situated a 2 min walk (literally right opposite) Otsuka train station, which is right on the Yamanote line (1 stop from Ikekuburo, 5 stops from Shinjuku, 8 stops to Shibuya, direct line to Tokyo Station).
The Otsuka area is by no means 'empty', and we found ourselves hanging out there a lot. There is a large supermarket, Daiso, Don Quijote, Uniqlo within a short walking distance. We also loved the onigiri shop (Onigiri Bongo) right beside the hotel.
We have recommended this place to all our friends, and will definitely stay here again the next time we are in Tokyo!
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Date of stay: February 2020
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Response from Hoshino_Resorts, お客様担当マネージャー at OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka by Hoshino Resorts
Responded 16 July 2020
Dear lohtusroot、 Thank you for taking the time to leave a kind review of OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka! It is great news that we could be a part of your stay in Tokyo. We are thrilled to hear that you found our location satisfactory, and that you would recommend our hotel to others! We also would like to inform you that OMO3 Tokyo Kawasaki of OMO brand will open in the near future which is on good location as well! Thank you again for your review, and we would certainly love to welcome you back to OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka soon! Sincerely.
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With the mezzanine/bunk bed you really feel the size of the room. It is much bigger than your regular hotel rooms in Tokyo.
The check-in and out process was very cool and easy to use. It is very close to the train station and a short ride to Shibuya and Shinjuku. Would come again.
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Date of stay: February 2020
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Room Tip:Great view
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Response from Hoshino_Resorts, お客様担当マネージャー at OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka by Hoshino Resorts
Responded 27 Feb 2020
Dear thomastrouble, Thank you for taking the time to leave a review of OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka! It is excellent news that we could be a part of your stay in Tokyo and that you found our facilities satisfactory, especially the room size and location! Our services strive to provide a comfortable and authentic experience for our guests. Thank you again for your review, and we would certainly love to welcome you back to OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka soon! Sincerely, Guest Relations Manager
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The hotel was lovely, with a young and fresh design. The location was better than expected, as it was right in front of the metro station for a very convenient metro line. Beds were super comfortable and the place was very clean. Breakfast options could be better, would have loved a traditional japanese breakfast
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Date of stay: April 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Brilliantly located as close to underground, but still plenty of restaurants around it, but very easy to get round the rest of Tokyo. Hotel it self was lovely staff brilliant and rooms were nice and clean, very trustworthy as son left his cash on the floor next to his bed and it was never touched If I had any complaint it would be that I wished the bar had more choice of drinks but overall a lovely hotel
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Date of stay: October 2024Trip type: Travelled with family
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I ended up staying here after taking a hard look at my itinerary for a recent solo trip and wondering if it would be possible to forego the nicer hotels I had stayed at in Tokyo last November (and which, as part of Japan’s excitement about welcoming tourists again, have since quadrupled in price) and instead experience a cheap, clean, cute place for the more budget-minded traveler.
For the most part, I was right. The OMO hotels (the higher the number, the nicer it is) are owned by Hoshino, so it is still stylish and trendy, and even when corners are cut, it’s done in a way that feels modern and cool. For instance, the hotel lobby - on the fourth floor abutting a Sizzler - is decked out in a theme that references the old cable cars in Otsuka, and there are manga, vintage city pop albums and souvenirs for sale everywhere you look. Check-in is mostly automated, though staff are there to help guide you through the process. On the way to the elevators you can grab some amenities like toothbrushes/toothpaste, combs, etc and rent pajamas. In these ways - and many others, mentioned below - the hotel feels a bit like a hostel, albeit a super cute one.
The rooms themselves are as quirky as the lobby, with a weird but hyper-designed layout: storage is along the walls to maximize the tiny space, the sink takes up half the hallway, and the majority of the room is built out like a large bunk bed: there’s a large futon style sofa on the bottom and a narrow set of steep stairs up to the loft with two small futons for sleeping, with signs urging you to be careful not to hit your head. Indeed I spent my four days there walking around bent over and trying not to accidentally die when I had to gingerly climb downstairs to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
The layout may have contributed to the noise above me that I suffered throughout my stay. But the heavy stomping around felt explainable when I climbed up to my own bed and had to collapse down onto the bed from the stairs in the cramped space.
There was unfortunately also a lot of yelling and running through the hallways but that’s likely attributable to just the kind of tourists looking for a cheap place to stay in Tokyo (of which I guess I was one).
There doesn’t seem to be a cleaning crew. So if you need anything - from new towels to dumping the tiny trash can, which is likely to fill up in a couple days due to the absence of public trash cans in Tokyo - you’ll need to ask the front desk, who pull double duty here. In fact, when my heated Toto washlet wasn’t working, two separate front desk staff came up with tools to try and fix it. Unfortunately they never were able to. However they were very helpful when I accidentally forgot my room card and were able to provide a temporary one without needing to charge me.
Breakfast is terrific, if simple. You get a choice of an American breakfast or a variety of hearty Japanese breakfasts like salmon ochazuke and you get a small onion soup and salad, there are several teas and juices (the yuzu and honey drink was my favorite) and there were always enough tables in the small eating area.
Each night from 8:30pm - 10:00pm, there is a “DJ Night”, which sounds more lively than it actually is. It’s really just one of the staff who plays some vintage songs from a sort of pretend DJ booth and you can dig in the “crates” for your favorite deep cuts. The crowd is mostly a few families with the kids looking confused through the record bins. But it’s really cute nonetheless. I ate my Fami-Chiki at a table one night waiting for the lobby to be transformed into a little club and finally asked the girl at the front desk politely “when does the DJ Night start?” to which she replied “this is it!”.
The laundry situation is a throwback to college when you had two floors of students sharing two washing machines and the phenomenon of people not bothering to retrieve their clothes right away is present here so you get the whole experience.
All in all, the OMO5 is totally worth the cheap prices and is a pared down but really cute, cool, and interestingly designed hotel. It isn’t the easiest to get back to in a taxi, as none of the drivers seem to be familiar with where it is, but the location is convenient; there’s a Family Mart across the street (of course), you’re caddy corner from the most famous onigiri place in Tokyo, and just a few blocks from the subway. Highly recommended if you’re looking for an economical and friendly place to crash.
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Date of stay: June 2023
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There are more places to choose from in the Toshima area.
PRICE RANGE
AU$227 - AU$347 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
LOCATION
JapanKantoTokyo PrefectureTokyoToshimaIkebukuro
NUMBER OF ROOMS
125
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