A total of 16 foreign hotel brands opened in Kansai in 2024, including new properties and rebrands -- the most ever for a single year, according to Osaka-based think tank Asia Pacific Institute of ...

Four Seasons Hotel Osaka is a one-of-a-kind stay in the iconic Japanese city. While most tourists flock to Tokyo, Osaka, the country's third-largest city, offers its own unique blend of modern ...

OSAKA -- Hotels in Osaka are more affordable than in Tokyo, in part because there are fewer international names in western ...

According to the Japan Tourism Agency’s Overnight Travel Statistics Survey, the hotel occupancy rate for Osaka Prefecture was up nine points year on year to 76.3 percent in July, logging the ...

Can Forbes Travel Guide solve the commissions conundrum?Forbes Travel Guide's endorsed travel agencies are dreaming the impossible dream: being paid hotel commissions upon booking, ...

One of the newest debuts in this Japanese port city is the Four Seasons Hotel Osaka, which opened in August 2024. The 175-room hotel offers Japanese hospitality and service with a Western twist ...

Canopy by Hilton Osaka Umeda. This is Hilton’s first Canopy hotel in Japan, and its debut in the Asia-Pacific region outside China. Canopy is branded as a “boutique” offering, one that ...

The hotel spans 12 floors of a new 49-story skyscraper with a sailboat-inspired façade in Dojima, an upmarket commercial district in central Osaka. The new 175-room hotel—designed by a trio of ...

This hotel has a storied past as a luxury property in the city, but it has grown tired and fallen behind the pack of other upper, mid-tier brands such as Hilton. Luckily, IHG has taken it under ...