Hoshino Resorts OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka

Stayed in a Yogura room with a friend for one week in June. I slept upstairs, he slept down. The hotel is spotlessly clean and it's in a charming and relatively quiet part of Tokyo, conveniently situated on the Yamanote line. The beds and bathroom were great, and the soaking tub was hugely appreciated. It's all efficiently designed. Though there is no desk, sitting in the window with a glass of sake was one my favorite things about it. Even if you don't opt for breakfast at the hotel, the coffee is highly recommended. And all of the staff were helpful and kind. Just mind your head.

The hotel is in a very good location near the Otsuka station (2min walk) very convenient. Local area is quiet which is good but still full of good shops and restaurants. Room size is compact but enough for us 2 adults and 15 yo to stay comfortably. Only disappointment is there are only 2 washers and 2 dryers to share among all hotel guests. But there are coin laundry close by hotel if needed.

Had a great and comfortable stay at OMO5. It’s just a short walk from Otsuka Station, which was super convenient. Plenty of good food options nearby too. Tried the English breakfast at the restaurant inside OMO5—really enjoyed it. Would definitely come back again in the future.

Beautiful, trendy hotel that has the most perfection location! Just 2 minute walk from the train station that is one stop from Ikebukuro. This place is perfect! The family room layout is also an incredible efficient use of space. We loved staying here so much! Away from the hustle and bustle yet close enough to everything.

The location is 4 minutes from otsuka train station. There is family mart, sushi restaurant and aeon supermarket near by. The breakfast is so nice, there are many kind of yummy risotto. The room is small but clean and comfortable. Not suitable for tall people, beware of their head. The service/front office is excellent, there is also luggage transport service.

A wonderful experience here with a clean and well set up room, laundry, vending machines, and ice machine downstairs that gives you the best nugget ice (took full advantage of this for all the drinks we got at family mart and 7/11!) Super convenient location for walkability and doing some shopping without major crowds. JR train, multiple convenience stores, restaurants, Daiso, and Don Quixote are all within a 1-3 min walk! There’s even a great thrift store across the street with tons of great stuff (cash only tho!). Nice amenities downstairs for any toiletries you may have forgotten, tea, slippers, and cozy room clothes you can change into. Staff was incredibly nice the entire 2 week stay, and came to take the trash and set up bedding every day even if it wasn’t a full on cleaning day (those are frequent but not daily). My friend and I felt very at home here during our stay, and I already can’t wait for my next trip!

My family stayed at this hotel on the last lag of our trip, basically a stop over after getting back from Kyoto before we head to NRT, so we didn’t care too much for where it was located. I would say this hotel is further away from the usual tourist attractions, but it’s a very short walk from Otsuka station and you can catch the Yamanote line to wherever you need. Otsuka is also way less crowded and less busy than other locations. There are tons of restaurants around the hotel as well. The room was very the most spacious hotel we stayed in during our entire Tokyo trip. I’m glad we stayed here at the end of our trip. I would recommend this hotel to those who don’t mind commuting or those that have already been to Tokyo before and done all of the touristy things. The hotel also offers free tours around Otsuka. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to join the tour.

Really enjoyed our stay at OMO5. The hotel was modern with a city vibe. All the staff were friendly and helpful along the way such as lending umbrellas, luggage forwarding, and suggestions. The Yagura room is an innovative bunk design. I really like the clever use of space provided you like stairs and bunk beds. Those who want enclosed bathrooms may want something else. I thought it worked well for a small family. The hotel is well located close to shops, station and plenty of eating options. Some improvement areas: - bigger garbage bins - bedding at additional charge seems steep considering the sofa is a bed itself - higher quality soaps and shampoos

My wife Shana who contributes to many of these reviews and sometimes has more to say wrote several about place in Japan. Letting her say it in her own words. I had the pleasure of staying 3 nights at the OMO 5 Tokyo Otsuka with my adult nonbinary child this past week, and what a treat it was! I simply cannot recommend this hotel enough for visitors to Tokyo. It's cute, clean, reasonably priced, and very well appointed! Some of the highlights: ROOMS: The rooms are small by American standards (we come from Texas, where everything is, indeed, bigger). But the OMO 5 is by NO MEANS a capsule hotel. This was our first visit to Japan, but we did our research and I feel safe stating the rooms are decent sized by Japanese standards. And they make the most of the space offered! I have attached a few pics. The sitting area is below the sleeping area, and they "decorate" the walls with the sorts of practical items visitors like to find in their hotel room: towels, hair dryer, a shoe horn (needed for a trip to Japan, for sure!), etc. A pair of slippers was provided with the room and a sign was placed in the entryway that clearly marked the boundary of where outside shoes were allowed, which was handy for novices like us! The hotel staff clearly knows how to take care of Western guests. FOOD: The OMO 5 provides breakfast for their guests, included with the room price. At the time of our stay they offered a selection of risotto meals as well as what they called an "American breakfast." Each of their meals comes with miso soup (the very best I've ever had!) and a divine side salad. Their risotto offerings range from salmon and salmon roe to scrambled eggs. Meredith and I each tried several. They were all very, very good. The hotel also has a cafe and bar, with light snacks, desserts,  and specialty cocktails. COMMUNITY: The OMO 5 Tokyo Otsuka hosts a free DJ night every night of the week in their lobby! Their lobby is also decorated in vinyl records. How cool is that? I'll tell you, it's super cool! Besides that, the hotel is constructed well enough that despite the fact that they host a DJ night every night of the week, their guests don't feel like they're trying to relax in a nightclub! Doubly good! The OMO 5 Tokyo Otsuka is literally across the street from a convenience store and a delicious and cheap conveyor belt sushi place, as well as a mere block away from a train station. It's on the Yamanote line, minutes away from Harajuku, Ueno, and Akihabara stations.  In short, I highly, highly recommend this hotel to anyone considering a visit to Tokyo!

I ended up staying here after taking a hard look at my itinerary for a recent solo trip and wondering if it would be possible to forego the nicer hotels I had stayed at in Tokyo last November (and which, as part of Japan's excitement about welcoming tourists again, have since quadrupled in price) and instead experience a cheap, clean, cute place for the more budget-minded traveler. For the most part, I was right. The OMO hotels (the higher the number, the nicer it is) are owned by Hoshino, so it is still stylish and trendy, and even when corners are cut, it's done in a way that feels modern and cool. For instance, the hotel lobby - on the fourth floor abutting a Sizzler - is decked out in a theme that references the old cable cars in Otsuka, and there are manga, vintage city pop albums and souvenirs for sale everywhere you look. Check-in is mostly automated, though staff are there to help guide you through the process. On the way to the elevators you can grab some amenities like toothbrushes/toothpaste, combs, etc and rent pajamas. In these ways - and many others, mentioned below - the hotel feels a bit like a hostel, albeit a super cute one. The rooms themselves are as quirky as the lobby, with a weird but hyper-designed layout: storage is along the walls to maximize the tiny space, the sink takes up half the hallway, and the majority of the room is built out like a large bunk bed: there's a large futon style sofa on the bottom and a narrow set of steep stairs up to the loft with two small futons for sleeping, with signs urging you to be careful not to hit your head. Indeed I spent my four days there walking around bent over and trying not to accidentally die when I had to gingerly climb downstairs to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. The layout may have contributed to the noise above me that I suffered throughout my stay. But the heavy stomping around felt explainable when I climbed up to my own bed and had to collapse down onto the bed from the stairs in the cramped space. There was unfortunately also a lot of yelling and running through the hallways but that's likely attributable to just the kind of tourists looking for a cheap place to stay in Tokyo (of which I guess I was one). There doesn't seem to be a cleaning crew. So if you need anything - from new towels to dumping the tiny trash can, which is likely to fill up in a couple days due to the absence of public trash cans in Tokyo - you'll need to ask the front desk, who pull double duty here. In fact, when my heated Toto washlet wasn't working, two separate front desk staff came up with tools to try and fix it. Unfortunately they never were able to. However they were very helpful when I accidentally forgot my room card and were able to provide a temporary one without needing to charge me. Breakfast is terrific, if simple. You get a choice of an American breakfast or a variety of hearty Japanese breakfasts like salmon ochazuke and you get a small onion soup and salad, there are several teas and juices (the yuzu and honey drink was my favorite) and there were always enough tables in the small eating area. Each night from 8:30pm - 10:00pm, there is a "DJ Night", which sounds more lively than it actually is. It's really just one of the staff who plays some vintage songs from a sort of pretend DJ booth and you can dig in the "crates" for your favorite deep cuts. The crowd is mostly a few families with the kids looking confused through the record bins. But it's really cute nonetheless. I ate my Fami-Chiki at a table one night waiting for the lobby to be transformed into a little club and finally asked the girl at the front desk politely "when does the DJ Night start?" to which she replied "this is it!". The laundry situation is a throwback to college when you had two floors of students sharing two washing machines and the phenomenon of people not bothering to retrieve their clothes right away is present here so you get the whole experience. All in all, the OMO5 is totally worth the cheap prices and is a pared down but really cute, cool, and interestingly designed hotel. It isn't the easiest to get back to in a taxi, as none of the drivers seem to be familiar with where it is, but the location is convenient; there's a Family Mart across the street (of course), you're caddy corner from the most famous onigiri place in Tokyo, and just a few blocks from the subway. Highly recommended if you're looking for an economical and friendly place to crash.