Overall, the hotel is a good Superior First class hotel, and convenient for business, sightseeing, shopping and excursions to Kyoto, Kobe and Nara. It also offers 13 banquet rooms different in size for around 20 upto 600 people.
Exterior: The hotel is a white 16-storey building.
Lobby: The lobby is accessible from the three entrances (ones with carriage porch, for group guests by coach and from sidewalk in town) on the same ground floor and additionally from the underground passage for subway station. It is decorated in beige marble because this hotel is designed on the theme of the 'Silk Road'.
The hotel is located above Nakatsu subway station, which is only one stop away from Umeda (Osaka Station) and 2 stops from Shin-Osaka for the Bullet train. The hotel building is directly connected to the subway station through underground passage. The lively shopping and restaurant area of Umeda is just a ten minute walk away. Access in and around Osaka is easy from this hotel. 1 kms to city centre 50 kms to the airport (kansai) 15 kms to the airport (itami) 1 km to the nearest station (osaka) 1 minute walk to the nearest bus stop 35 km to the nearest fair site (intex osaka)