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Reviews of Hotel Obana

3 out of 5
Hotel Obana
1110 Takabatakebodai-cho, Nara, Nara-ken

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 73 out of 203 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 99 out of 203 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 22 out of 203 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 8 out of 203 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 203 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.4/10

Amenities

8.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Joel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023
Response from HOTEL OBANA on Nov 22, 2023
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8/10 Good

Christine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great hotel for the price. Staff was very kind. I would stay here again and recommend it. It is clean and comfortable. Good basic hotel with laundry machines. Good neighborhood, walkable to all Nara attractions. Did not like the bedding material.
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Mary

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great Location
For budget Japan Hotels this place is actually fairly spacious. It's not the most comfortable but it's easy access to some of the top sights in Nara make it worth it especially for one night.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

10/10 Excellent

Susan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Affordable hotel Nara
Beautiful well located hotel
Stayed 2 nights in May 2018

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The water pressure at the bathtub was close to none. Bathroom way too small to be comfortable. Hotel needs modernization.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place at a perfect position within walking distance to Nara park.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2018

10/10 Excellent

Tiffany, CA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great value
The breakfast is fantastic quality. The staff is friendly and helpful.
Stayed 5 nights in Nov 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Hotel provides a well spread of traditional Japanese and Western breakfast buffet. Free public bath nearby hotel but have to bring own towel. Thus, never bother to go and try out the public bath. Nearby Nara Park and shopping streets. However, about 20min walk from JR station if you are using JR pass. Check in and out process were easy and fast. There is a cosy reading corner at lobby level with free coffee n tea dispensers and foot massage.

10/10 Excellent

Josephine, El Segundo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel is close to everything
Hotel is nicely situated, and close to all the local shops, restaurants, temples, and transportations (JR and Kintetsu). With Nara being one of my favorite cities in Japan, the Hotel Sunroute is exceeding my expectations. Will definitely go back.

8/10 Good

Steve, Hong Kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Convenient location and great bargain
I stayed in a single room, which was reasonably sized for Japan and a definite bargain for the price I paid. The central shopping/restaurant street is a 7 minute walk and the Nara Kintetsu is 17min (with luggage). Walking distance to all the main attractions. Free coffee/hot drink dispenser in the lobby. I received a single free pass to one of any 4 local onsen (hor water bath house).

8/10 Good

Sue

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great location
The hotel is in a great location next to the Nara Deer Park. We could see the 5-story pagoda of the Kofukuji Temple from our room on the 5th floor. It is the second tallest pagoda in Japan at 50 meters. The front desk staff was very helpful and kind. One very nice woman told us of a special celebration happening the evening we checked in to the hotel. It was a rare event that celebrates the completion of the Kasuga Taisha Shrine that is torn down and rebuilt every 20 years. It was spectacular! The next day, she gave us an oragami deer for our 6 mo. old grandson. She also gave us a postcard of the hotel and some oragami Autumn leaves to take home. There is a coffee/tea/hot cocoa machine in the lobby that is available during set times and is free. The breakfast was very good. Both Japanese and Western foods were on the buffet. The only complaint is that there were bus groups at the hotel both nights and they were at breakfast before the opening time, so these groups got seated for breakfast first and others had to wait for 20-30 minutes to get seated..

6/10 Okay

Matthew

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Small but fine for one cheap night in Nara
The hotel is fine for one night in Nara. The rooms are too small for anything longer!

8/10 Good

William, Sydney

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Central Nara Comfort
Central to everything so walk and enjoy it all

8/10 Good

William, Houston

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good for visiting great town
Reasonably priced. Clean, comfortable. Building is modern and well maintained and managed. Did not notice any noise. About three blocks off the main street. Near the temple area. Within walking distance of train statilons. Sunroute is a chain.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
front desk is nice, kind, and friendly, they try hard to fulfil guest's needs

8/10 Good

Sam, Hong Kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Convenient location
Convenient location within walking distance to many popular attractions.

6/10 Okay

Ken, Macao

Liked: Cleanliness
Nice hotel not far away to many places
The room was clean but I could only book a smoking room but did not expect such strong smell of smoking.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
good location, but ...
good location, but an old hotel. it does not share the information of our deal from hotels.com. we almost lost our breakfasts. you clearly hear the noise of your steps from the room upstairs, and it disturbed your sleep.

8/10 Good

Adam, Warsaw

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Clean, well located hotel
It's a nice hotel, close to all the sides to visit. About 20 min walk from the Nara train station.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

4/10 Poor

Candy, Byron Bay

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not what we expected!
This hotel was in a great location. However, we had booked 4 non smoking rooms and all the rooms reeked of smoke. The carpets had large stains on them. The beds were as hard as rocks and the pillows felt like bags of ball bearings! We were seven women travelling together and we were all very disappointed. We later discovered that one floor above our rooms had recently been renovated (these were the rooms we had booked) but we weren't offered these until our last night so didn't bother to move. The hotel advertised free Wifi - but this wasn't in the bedrooms, only in the lobby and we were only allowed 15 mins internet access at a time!

8/10 Good

AdamGS, Nara

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great food, hard beds
My wife and I enjoyed our stay here. The location is great for seeing the sights of Nara, albeit the beds are preset darn hard and we found them uncomfortable as we enjoy softer bedding.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Jonathan, Singapore

Liked: Staff & service
Great!
Overall experience was good. The surroundings were limited in amenities but it is just behind nara park. Do check the website you book on though. I booked a room which said maximum 2 pax but apparently hotel received only booking for 1to a room. They charge by pax and not by room. We were charged extra for the few rooms we booked. The staff were very helpful and assisted us with the booking error and accommodated us. It is not a far walk from the train station. And a number for food locations at the station.

6/10 Okay

giachi, tokyo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
nice stay in a convenient place

8/10 Good

Kevin, Toronto, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good hotel near temples

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A Hotel with great location to deer park n temples

10/10 Excellent

george, Bucharest, Romania

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
it was very nice and the hotel was OK foer the budget I got.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful value for money
Hotel Sunroute at Nara is a fantastic hotel for the price. I stayed there overnight in a single room. The room was small (typical by Japanese standards) but was clean and perfectly functional. However, the shower itself was quite cramped; if you are 6ft or taller - you might have to hunch down to get in. The hotel itself is very close to the Kintetsu-Nara station on the private Kintetsu line (they accept the Pasmo card, but you will have to get seat reservations on the Ltd. Exp trains) but the area is somewhat hilly and walking is recommended only for the able. Nara park/Nara museum are also nearby. The staff themselves were very helpful and they really went out of their way to help me. Overall, a very nice place to stay in Nara - I quite enjoyed it.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Small hotel within 2 blocks of temples & Deer park. Very accommodating staff. Clean. Good rates. We enjoyed our stay here.

8/10 Good

Ted, Germany

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
What the business traveller needs in Nara
Room was very small for western standards, but ok in Japan: Bed 150 cm wide, desk with TV and fridge under TV, tiny bathroom, no extra floor space for working out. AC. Wifi is very fast and free. Clean. Well cleaned every day. Extremely helpful staff with so-so English. Breakfast buffet was very good. Good value I thought.

8/10 Good

JT, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
good location
Excellent location for sightseeing and 10-15 min walk from the JR station, 5 min from Kintetsu station. Very clean but dated decor from early 90s. Not as good value for money as Tokyo hotels but it is a small place with fewer hotels and lot of visitors so it is no surprise you end up paying more than in Tokyo.

8/10 Good

Evelyn, Hong Kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
Room too small
Everything about the hotel was perfect except that my room was really too small for my comfort., especially on my arrival. But I began to overlook it by the second night there.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

8/10 Good

Shoko

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service, amenities
フロントのスタッフの方の対応がとても親切でした。
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

ヒロアキ

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
急な宿泊でしたが、館内、お部屋は清潔感があり 快適に過ごせました。ロビーにあるフリードリンクもとても良い。
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

ヤスシ

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

6/10 Okay

Kazuko

Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Saki

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

????

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
静かに過ごすことが出来ました。朝食も美味しくいただきました。
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023
Response from フロント　片山 on Dec 6, 2023
ご利用ありがとうございました。またのご予約お待ちしております。

8/10 Good

Chikara

Liked: Cleanliness
朝のバイキングがとても美味しかったです。さすが元・料理屋だと思います。
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023
Response from フロント　片山 on Dec 6, 2023
ご利用ありがとうございました。またのご予約お待ちしております。

8/10 Good

おさむ

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Takeshi

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
観光に便利なロケーション。 朝食も美味しく満足しました。
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

sylvain

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

8/10 Good

Eizo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
全体としてとても気持ちの良いサービス・対応でした。唯一、ユニットバスが狭くて残念でした。
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023
Response from ホテル尾花 on May 2, 2023
この度はご利用いただき、ありがとうございました。施設の件でご不便をおかけし、大変申し訳ございませんでした。またお褒めのお言葉をいただき、大変恐縮です。またぜひホテル尾花にお越しくださいませ。

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Masako

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023