Hotel Agora Osaka Moriguchi

We stayed in a large suite, which was very comfortable, lots of space with separate bedroom, advertised with a "full kitchen" and 5 on-site restaurants. The kitchen is ok but it's not really a full kitchen, it had a very small drink fridge, a single-burner stove, a sink, and 2 pans. But it had NO DISHES, NO UTENSILS, NO COOKING TOOLS, etc., it was basically just good for Ramen but not for cooking an real meal. It also advertised 5 in-hotel restaurants, but most were closed, only two were open. The "all-day dining" restaurant was closed "all day" (never opened during the 5 days we stayed), and one of the two open restaurants required a prior reservation since it takes 1.5hrs to cook the meal, and the other Japanese restarant was mega expensive... Anyways there were lots of good restaurants outside the hotel, but the hotel didn't really live up to what it advertised. No English menus in restaurants, we had to use Google Translate and even then it was difficult to translate everything. Staff in restaurants do not speak English. The breakfast buffet was much better than average, they have western eggs, sausage, potatoes, yogurt, cereal, bread, fruit, salad... and a wide variety of Japanese breakfast items like beef udon, curry rice, congee, pork, fish, fried chicken, soup, steamed buns. The only downside is that it's the same breakfast every morning and it can get tiring after a while even w. the variety - it would have been nice for them to vary the menu. They provide free water bottles to hotel guests, wifi was good, and the suite also had wired ethernet access which was very nice. The suite had 1.5 baths, the full bath was very spacious with a tub and shower, and separate sink area. Overall, we enjoyed our stay and would stay again. Make sure you check online prices before you book, when I called for prices they quoted me 2x what was advertised online, so don't book via phone!

Sherk