First Cabin Midosuji Namba ファーストキャビン御堂筋難波

Visiting First Cabin Midosuji Namba today

• What it is: The Osaka Minami (Namba) hotel the post describes, now named First Cabin Midosuji Namba. Aviation Wire reports it as the chain's first hotel, opened in April 2009. It is a cabin-style hotel with separate men's and women's floors, a public bath with sauna, shower booths, a lounge and a gym.
• Cabins: First Class Cabin is single occupancy, 2.1 m x 2.1 m x 2.1 m, with a 120 cm bed, 32-inch TV and safe; it has a curtain, not a lockable door. Premium Class Cabins are lockable private rooms for 1 to 6 people. 59 cabins in total.
• Getting there: Directly connected to Namba Station on the Osaka Metro, 1 minute on foot from Exit 13. The front desk is on the 3rd floor.
• Hours: Check-in 17:00, check-out 10:00. Phone 06-6631-8090.
• Tip: First Cabin has since grown into a chain with hotels in Tokyo, Kyoto, Kansai Airport, Fukuoka and other cities.

Checked against: First Cabin Midosuji Namba (official) · First Cabin (official, hotel list) · Aviation Wire, 23 Apr 2014 (first store, Midosuji Namba, April 2009) · J-CAST, 7 Feb 2010 (Osaka Midosuji Namba, opened April 2009). Check opening times and prices before you go.

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