Good Location. 8 min walk to Umeda and Nakatsu metro statiosn. Rooms were clean and fine for the price. Breakfast was average. What WE DIDN'T LIKE was - Staff couldn't arrange cabs for us to go the airport!! In the morning,we told the staff to call cabs for us for 4pm in the evening, and they told us at the last minute that they were not able to call any cabs. What kind of hotel doesn't have a tie up with any cab companies? We had to walk with our luggage and 4 year old child to next street to stop cabs running on the street, which was very inconvenient and made us 20 minutes late.
Livemax have many branches near train stations. Very convenient. However, nagatsu station is a bit quiet and no food or convenience shops at night. Need to walk 10min. This branch also older and so there are water dripping sound heard from my room which affect my sleep.
Rooms were very small, very clean, with heated toilet seat & bidet. No place for putting your clothes in drawers or closet. We had to sleep in separate twin beds. The beds were like sleeping on a slab of marble. Terrible mattress. Maybe this is what the Japanese business men prefer. Only one pillow per bed and it was terrible also. I could not sleep on my side because the bed was so hard it would hurt my hip. The location was nice. If you are older like me and need a good nights sleep as an american tourist I would not recommend this hotel. I could have tolerated this room for one or two nights, but we were booked for 5 nights here. Could not wait to move on.