{"id":37101,"date":"2025-09-11T20:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=37101"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:22:05","slug":"hotel-toyota-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2025\/09\/11\/hotel-toyota-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Toyota Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The work event I’m attending over these four days is hosted in Toyota City, about an hour by train east of Nagoya. Like many other built-up cities, there are hotels that are near the train station \u2014 Toyotashi Stn in this case \u2014 and the property I have been staying at these several days is Hotel Toyota Castle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Comments about the stay:<\/p>\n

The room I stayed in was a Twin Standard Room<\/strong> located on the ninth floor. Size-wise, it was significantly larger at 30sqm compared to the small 14\u201315 sqm rooms in the station hotels I have routinely stayed at in Fukuoka, Nagoya, and Tokyo. The room had space for a full-sized bathroom and toilet, with the bathroom separated from the toilet by a door. The TV was disappointingly small though \u2014 not that there was anything interesting to watch on the broadcast channels available.<\/p>\n

Check-in time is at 3PM, and like most other Japanese hotels, they do not seem to allow early check-ins. The hotel accepts luggage storage though, so there are no issues leaving your heavy bags there if you’re arriving early.<\/p>\n

The hotel seemed popular with business travelers: each morning at breakfast during the days I stayed, there was a group of Western business guests \u2014 Americans, judging from their accents \u2014 who would come in early for BF before continuing on to their morning activities.<\/p>\n

The hotel is also an easy 1\u20132 minute walk from the station itself and is adjacent to a small mixed-use complex. The complex itself has a Pronto cafe with light eats and the usual range of beverages \u2014 convenient if you need a late-night cup of joe!<\/p>\n

Unlike some other business hotels I’ve stayed at, amenities like shower accessories and beverages aren’t self-collect\/help-yourself at reception but are pre-supplied in the room itself. These were replenished every day with daily room service. I couldn’t find coin-operated laundry machines though: any laundry you might have would be handled directly by the hotel.<\/p>\n

Location-wise: the area around Toyotashi Station is fairly quiet, but there are a few shopping malls nearby, including a mid-sized one called T-Face. This multi-floor mall has a large department store that would have everything that you’d need, and a large supermarket in the basement.<\/p>\n

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Hotel Toyota Castle \u2014 just a few minutes’ walk from Toyotashi Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Twin Standard Room with double beds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Small range of beverages supplied in the room. The coffee is the sachet kind, similar to tea bags.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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KiTARA, a small complex that houses a cinema theatre and a couple of F&B joints.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Breakfast at the hotel, starting at 6:45AM every morning. The BF menu largely stayed the same across the four days I stayed, but the restaurant was spacious and the spread was enough to get you through the morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That’s a wrap for my four-night stay at the Hotel Toyota Castle. In short, pretty OK though nothing particularly extraordinary, though I certainly appreciated the fairly large-sized rooms!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The work event I’m attending over these four days is hosted in Toyota City, about an hour by train east of Nagoya. Like many other built-up cities, there are hotels that are near the train station \u2014 Toyotashi Stn in<\/p>\n

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