Hotel Tokyu a Kōbe

Location is great as it is practically adjacent to the Sannomiya train station. However, there is a major scale construction going on now, right exactly in front of the hotel and if you are not observant, it could easily slip your sight. Also note there are two Tokyu Rei hotels nearby each other and if you are taking a taxi from Shin Kobe station, remember to clearly specify the destination is Sannomiya Tokyu Rei and not the nearby one in Moto Machi which the driver brought us to. As is typical of most hotels in Japan, even though we had a twin room, space was rather limited and we barely had enough to even open up a medium size luggage bag let alone two. A big plus point was food options were everywhere and all within walking distance, with many eateries just directly behind the hotel and more as you walk down the main road leading to a row of various restaurants and various eateries for all budgets. Check-in was of the touch machine kind which is typical of Japan now and staff were at hand to help and guide along. They were also especially helpful providing useful information as to where to go for a good meal and how to get to other places of interests. Given the proximity to train station, the food options around and the price we paid, Kobe Sannomiya Tokyu Rei is a good choice for a stay in Kobe.

The hotel is right in the heart of Motomachi district in Kobe. It had nice amenities like free coffee and tea 3-10 pm, laundry, and overall was in a pretty central area for shopping and sightseeing. Cons: wifi was not available until our very last night , when we checked in the hotel staff they were sincerly apologetic but knowing after the fact that we booked a hotel for 4 nights, and the wifi was having connection issues and was only available in the lobby and this had been going on since early May was kind of a downer. We booked third-party using Trip so we were unaware of this however, the hotel did have the issue listed on their main website. Overall we got by!