Hotel Toyo Reviews

A clean and nice budget hostel. A Japanese friend told us Osaka is the most dangerous city in Japan and Nishinari is the most dangerous place in Osaka but Japan is a safe country, there's no need to over-worry. He also warned us the rooms in Hotel Toyo is very tiny. We find the size of the twin room reasonable. We only need a clean place to sleep, so we are not too particular with anything else.

I would defo use this place as a base if you are on a budget.You can do day trips to nara park and surrounds even kyoto,once you have your jr pass.almost japanese style beds,location is good in osaka and very near the train stations and metro.2nd cheapest place i found in japan.staff were very helpful but one thing,charging me 500 yen for an adaptor when you could by it in the local shop for 130 yen was a bit steep.Still recommend it tough

Location was easy to find and close to public transit. Staff was very friendly and helpful. The price was right.

A hostel with a shared unisex shower may have new experience in your-life.

This is a good place to stay for 1 or 2 nights, but if you're going to stay in Osaka for longer than that then I'd suggest paying a bit more and finding somewhere that is a little bit cleaner. The staff were brilliant, the woman on reception spoke fluent Japanese, Chinese and English which was a great help!

The location was good, and staff was very nice and helpful when assistance was needed.

All in all a nice hostel, but there are some negative points: The location seems to be not the best because you can find Hotel Toyo in a rather poor environment where people spit on the streets literally (nevertheless you can reach anything in Osaka really fast from there). The staff's totally nice, but the Hostel itself isn't too new/clean. On the first day I even had a giant cockroach in my room. The walls are quite thin, so you can her everything from the gangway or neighbour rooms.

The price is excellent. Maybe some more showers and a lift would do the hostel some good but everything else was good. Especially the location, only a minute away from the station.

This is about as cheap as hostels get in Japan and you can see why. It's very run down and shabby looking. The room is small but fine with a futon on tatami mats. Free wifi was a plus. It's a good place to stay if all you want to do is sleep for a few hours but I wouldn't want to hang out there.

Good location but hostel felt a bit drab - not a place that I'd like to spend much time in... it was just somewhere to sleep. It was not nice that male and female bathroom was not seperate! Room was small and basic. Information at the hostel was adequate. Not bad just to stay in for a couple of nights.

The staff were lovely but the place is really bad. There is one bathroom for males and females to share with only 2 showers amongest over 50 people! The toilets are unisex with one on each floor (to share with at least 10-15 people) and most of them are Japanese style (squatting toilets) and absolutely stink of urine! I saw a drug deal occur just outside the hostel! The area is filled with very dodgy people and I was frightened to go out or return at night. The rooms are not all air conditioned!

Good: Location (subway and JR station within mintues, walk to Den Den town, Dotonburi, Shinsaibashi, and others in less than 30 mins), the staff was cool, and the people you meet there are also cool, no curfew Bad: Location (the city is disgusting, everywhere smells badly, we found out that it's not a safe area by some Japanese who lived there, supposedly it's yakuza[japanese word for gangs] territory), the Bathrooms(bad status -OH and boys and girls share the same toilets, there's no door