Hotel 3 Bintang di Kagoshima

南九州一の繁華街天文館に位置するビジネスホテルですが、「レム」を名乗るだけのことはあって、目覚まし時計で起こされるまで寝たという、私には珍しいほどよく眠れました。市電やバスが直ぐ前の道を走っているのですが、騒音も全く気になりませんでした。 １泊朝食付きでしたので館内のタリーズでいただきましたが、なかなかよくまとまった充実したものでした。ホットドッグ・パンケーキ・トーストからチョイスできました。

旅行中の連泊の宿として利用しました。周囲に飲食店もあり、ドンキホーテも近く天文館も歩いてすぐです。 部屋は清潔ですし簡易パジャマもついていて快適です。シャンプーバーは必要量を小分け容器にもっていくタイプだったので面倒で利用しませんでした。 車庫が横についてはいるのですがいつもほぼ満車です。裏手の提携駐車場も利用できます。

Overall just a pretty decent room for the money in a good location and no noise. The bath is quite nice too. Small but that is expected for a place like this. Quite impressive for a small hotel in the middle of the city.

The hotel is a short distance from the Shinkansen station,( trolley stop N11). Take the trolley to N8 . The breakfast was very good and the burgers are great for lunch. The staff were friendly and helpful, especially Waki, who was a great help for me applying for a visa.

今回はダブルの部屋を予約しました 配置が立体駐車場側だったのか、機械の音が聞こえてたのが難点ですね😮💨 ローケーションが繁華街に近く、徒歩圏内だったは良かったです😄 部屋は少し狭く感じましたが、1人旅なのでそれほど不便ではなかったです ただベッドが若干硬く寝心地はイマイチな感じでした🫤

Convenient location, especially if you arrive in Kagoshima by JR or the Shinkansen - obviously, as this is a JR Kyushu Hotel. The facilities were well furnished, and the breakfast from the restaurant was also nice. Comfortable stay overall - I'll certainly stay here again if I come to Kagoshima next time!

For tourists, you will like the hotel. It’s centrally-located and reasonably priced. But for me, this is my 2nd Richmond Hotel this week, and like Yokohama four days ago, the check in experience at the Kagoshima Richmond Kinseicho was just as bad. I arrived at the hotel at 1 and asked in Japanese for them to hold my bag until checkin. No problem and I left. I came back about 3:30 to check in. I claimed my bag and gave my name in Japanese. She found my reservation then immediately asked for my passport. I simply said “No”. She looked at me like I didn’t hear her then went to the back room to get another woman who I guess can speak English. Before the second one could say anything I explained in Japanese that I am not a tourist and if she would just check my reservation on the computer in front of her she would have known that. It is insulting to ask permanent residents (I am one.) for identification when checking in, especially our passport, which we do not carry around inside Japan (any more than a Japanese person would traveling Japan). The law specifies we are to be checked in as residents just as Japanese people are. And this, again, is the 2nd time this week I have explained the Japanese hotel law to Richmond hotel staff who should know better. And when this happens, no matter how good your hotel is the stay will not be pleasant because I won’t forget the insult. I’m speaking to you in Japanese and you still assume I am a tourist? How many fluent middle-aged white guys do you see in a year who are tourists? Come on Richmond, use some common sense and stop lumping residents and tourists in the same pile. It’s disrespectful to those of us for whom Japan is home. We are not the same as tourists. I like Richmond Hotels, but I have plenty of hotel choices available to me, and have stayed at Richmond at least four times this past year. Until you stop othering foreign residents as the same as visiting tourists I won’t be staying at this Richmond or any other going forward.

JALのダイナミックパッケージを利用したので、宿代だけでコスパを考えるのは少し難しいが、食事付きで宿泊して飛行機もセットでこの値段ならと納得して泊まったはず。部屋は寝るだけと思えば何の問題もありません。駅からも近いので便利。天文館までは少し距離があるけど、路面電車もバスもあるし、普通に歩いて行くことも可能。朝ご飯もおいしく、食べすぎた記憶があります。

Hotel is quite a distance from the Kagoshima station. As there were 4 adults, we decided to cab upon arrival. With 4 luggage’s it was abit challenging, 2L and 2M luggage sizes. Thankfully our cab driver allowed one of us to hold the lighter luggage in our lap and took us all to the hotel. Leaving we encountered a very rude taxi driver outside the hotel. He bullied us and took one luggage and put into his trunk. Signalled another cab to come pick the rest of us and literally threw our second luggage to the other cab. Shocked us. He insisted only 2 passengers and one luggage and demanded ¥1,000 fare not meter. Very very bad experience with Japanese taxi driver outside Kagoshima Washington hotel. Hotel wise staff tried very hard to converse in English and very helpful as we arrived on New Year’s Eve. Room was small and clean.

朝食バイキングが、鹿児島の地のもののおかずがたくさんで、とても美味しかったです。 山菜ご飯も美味しかったし、さつま汁も美味しかった。特に鶏飯が最高でした。 部屋もきれいで、大浴場も気持ちよく利用させていただきました。 天文館にも近いし、鹿児島に行く時は、また利用させていただきます！