Where to Stay– category –

Hotel Route Inn is Japan's 300-plus-hotel roadside chain with a free 30-item breakfast, a public bath at most branches, preschoolers free and a printed price for every hour you arrive early or leave late. Check-in 15:00, checkout 10:00, cancellation 20 percent from three days out, tattoos allowed in the bath only under a cover seal. From the official FAQ.

remm is the Hankyu-Hanshin sleep-focused chain with a massage chair and rain shower in every room, check-in at 14:00 and checkout at noon, no service charge, a 30,000-yen smoking penalty, and a cancellation fee of only 20 percent the day before and 80 percent on the day. Eight hotels in Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Kagoshima. From the official pages and terms.

the b hotels is the 15-hotel Japanese chain where children up to 11 stay free in your bed, under-sixes eat breakfast free, a free snack appears in the lobby each evening, and canceling the day before costs 20 percent. Check-in 15:00, checkout 11:00, and a midnight no-show rule. Breakfast 500 to 2,200 yen by hotel. From the official FAQ and hotel pages.

Hotel Resol is the Japanese chain where you take your shoes off at the room door, a free membership card earns 1 point per 100 yen and a free extra hour at checkout, a no-show at 20:00 can cancel the room, and the day-before cancellation fee is 50 percent. Check-in 15:00, checkout 11:00, breakfast 2,000 to 2,500 yen, tattoos barred from the bath. From the official terms and hotel FAQs.

Hotel Monterey is the European-themed Japanese chain that adds an 18 percent service charge, starts cancellation fees a week out, treats a no-show at 22:00 as a cancellation, and bars tattoos from its Kyoto and Fukuoka baths. Check-in 15:00, checkout 11:00 at every hotel we checked, Kyoto closed for all of January 2027. From the official terms and hotel pages.

Super Hotel is the Japanese budget chain with PIN-code doors instead of keys, a free organic breakfast at most branches, children up to six free in your bed, and a front desk that closes from midnight to 7:00. Check-in 15:00 to 24:00, checkout 10:00, no fee to cancel the day before. All from the official FAQ and terms.

9h nine hours is the capsule chain whose rules are unlike a hotel's: check in 15:00 to 5:00, out by 11:00 with no extension, everyone out from 11:00 to 15:00 even on a multi-night stay, free cancellation until the day before, one capsule per person from age 6, and no laundry. All from the official English FAQ and guide.

Daiwa Roynet Hotels is the 79-hotel Daiwa House chain where the front door locks from midnight to 6 a.m., you pay at a machine on check-in, the laundry takes only 100-yen coins, and only 8 hotels have a bath or sauna. Ginza PREMIER and Kyoto-Ekimae PREMIER check in at 14:00. All from the official pages.

Mitsui Garden Hotels is the Mitsui Fudosan chain with a top-floor public bath at 22 of its hotels, a cancellation ladder that starts at 20 percent three days out, no service charge, and a 3-day cleaning rule. Osaka PREMIER becomes Osaka Nakanoshima PREMIER on February 26, 2027. All from the official English pages.

Tokyu Stay is the Tokyo-centred chain with a washer-dryer, microwave and kitchenette in many rooms, preschool children free in a parent's bed, and a 50-80-100 percent cancellation ladder. Check-in 15:00, call if you arrive after 22:00, and a resale plan you can only buy on the Japanese site. All from the official FAQ.

Dormy Inn is the Japanese business-hotel chain with a public bath, a free bowl of soy-sauce ramen at night and a 1,000 yen per person, per hour charge for a late checkout. Check-in 15:00, children under 3 sleep free, tattoos are refused unless a cover sticker fits. All from the chain's own FAQ.

Japanese law has no category called a love hotel, and whether one counts as an adult business is decided by the building rather than by anything that happens inside. Here is how the pricing works, how check-in works, and why you still need your passport.