Accommodation in Japan: Comfort Hotels offer nice and budget-friendly services

Offering accommodations in major cities including Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Fukuoka and Nagoya

Comfort Hotels are operated at over 60 locations in Japan and are well known among Japanese for offering comfortable accommodation services at reasonable rates as in overseas markets. 

The locations include Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Hiroshima and Fukuoka in addition to cities in the Chubu region such as Nagoya, Gifu, Nagano. Since their convenient locations, Comfort Hotels in Japan are often used by business person but they are also popular among tourists because of its affordable rates. 

Comfort Hotels have kept a good reputation also in Japan for providing services pursuing comfort and good sleep, such as free wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) connection, free breakfast, welcome coffee service and its original sleep pillow "Choice pillow" in all rooms at competitive prices. On May 31, 2018, World No Tobacco Day, the hotels made all rooms in Japan non-smoking. One night stay is available from around 5,000 yen, which is a relatively low price range as this type of hotel in Japan. 

In March 2018, Japan's first brand “Comfort Suites Tokyo Bay” was opened in an area adjacent to Tokyo Disneyland and is attracting family and foreign visitors in addition to business segment. Comfort Hotels are operated under three brand names in Japan and offers services that allow guests to stay comfortably for a diverse customer base. 

In each hotel there is also an open space, “the Comfort Library Café”, where guests can read books and relax outside their guest rooms. The cafe offers all you can drink services such as coffee and tea, and has books in various categories including regional information magazines and travel magazines related to the area each hotel is located. In the guest rooms, a VOD theater is provided so that you can freely watch your favorite programs from over 100 channels such as movies, variety shows and documentaries.

Japanese tourism industry is aiming to recover from COVID 19 crisis

Furthermore, against a backdrop of the spread of the new coronavirus, the hotels started a day-trip stay service targeting business person on teleworking. Although visitors to the hotels fell sharply due to the COVID-19, the outbreak is subsiding gradually. 

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has lifted the capital's coronavirus alert paving the way to revitalize tourism business. In addition, the Japanese government will carry out support measures to shore up demand in the travel and restaurant industries hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, starting late July. In what has been dubbed the “Go To campaign,” the government will subsidize half the cost of domestic tours and issued coupons for purchases at restaurants and souvenir shops.