Inviting you to live like a local during your stay in Osaka, Sekai Hotel in Higashi-Osaka’s bustling Fuse shopping arcade encourages you to connect with the surrounding community. For example, rather than serving breakfast in the building, the hotel offers guests credit at the Ikedaya coffee shop nearby. Staff encourage you to check out the bakeries and butcher shops along the arcade and provide directions to the best local izakaya at night, perhaps followed by a dip at the neighbourhood’s communal bathhouse.
The hotel’s ‘rooms’ are scattered across meticulously renovated old houses along and near the shopping arcade and include dormitories, twins and a ‘superior room’ for families.