Kaliko P.
Yelp
Review is for July 2018.
If you fly into or out of Kansai Airport (KIX) from Hawaii, you'll notice mostly all the flights arrive at night or leave at night, so that's something to consider when you land at KIX and need a place to hang out before heading to Tokyo or Kyoto the next day or catching your flight back to Hawaii.
We had about 10 hours to kill before we flew out, and considered the day use lounge for families, which would have been a LOT cheaper, but we were lugging all of our suitcases, pretty tired out and eager to get off our feet and maybe catch some zzz's and shower so we headed to Nikko, which had a pretty decent rate if you pre-booked, but NOT if you show up without reservations, like we did.
I actually did pre-book a room for our flight in, but Air Asia managed to mess that up and delay our flight to the next day, so I had to call Nikko long distance to cancel to avoid the $159.00 room charge fee, which was dirt cheap considering that was for the three of us and I booked months in advance. They say they speak English, but after I started rattling off English the guy on the other end says "no understand", so I had to bust out the Japanese.
The walk-in fee was very steep, it cost $268.00 for the three of us for only 8 hours of use (they would charge us more if we went over the 8 hours), but my husband said "screw it" and got the room.
The room was just average but the view of the ocean and the runway was pretty entertaining. There were "free" drinks in the fridge which involved some great beer - like Yebisu, and soft drinks for the kiddo.
We left our suitcases in the room and wandered about the terminal eating and drinking our way around KIX, headed back to the room to sleep, shower and rest before catching our (dreaded) Air Asia flight back to Hawaii.
Service was efficient, helpful and prompt. No frills bull. Fast check in and fast check out.
I'd stay again, but will probably pre-book next time. Lesson learned.