Osaka, Japan

Patina Osaka

Price per night from$557.63

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (JPY87,020.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Shōgun-worthy high-rise

Setting

Kin of the Castle

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A quintessential Japanese resort, Patina Osaka couples centuries-old legacy with contemporary frills. Its sky-high slickness and modern interiors contrast the tiered architecture of your storied neighbour, Osaka Castle, which marks views from your suite’s bath tub, a clutch of specialist restaurants and a panoramic spa pool. An afternoon tea parlour and cocktail-stirring bar are an apt overture to Osaka itself, where the city’s street-food scene, late-night izakayas and all-senses markets await.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

221, including 35 suites.

Check–Out

Noon; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to an extra charge; Smith guests get late check-out until 2pm (subject to availability).

More details

Rates at Patina Osaka typically exclude breakfast, which is JPY6,000 each. Non-alcoholic minibar drinks are included with your stay, as are scheduled hotel shuttles to the subway.

Also

Two Deluxe King Rooms and one Deluxe Double Room with city views are accessible, and each has an adapted bathroom with a roll-in shower. The rest of the resort is suitable for wheelchair users.

At the hotel

Round-the-clock gym, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, Bang & Olufsen Bluetooth speaker, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar with free soft drinks and bottled water, yoga mat, Dyson hairdryer, pyjamas, bathrobes, slippers and Bamford bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Patina Osaka’s privileged setting is best soaked up from a Junior Suite King, where a private balcony places you that bit closer to the city’s 16th-century castle, and contemporary Japanese design features a tatami bed, warm-light lanterns and wooden furnishings.

Poolside

There’s an indoor-outdoor feel to the spa’s pool: its ceiling-high windows frame Osaka Castle like a canvas; the leafy park grounds are mirrored with poolside plants, and amber-hued lighting evokes the setting sun. It’s a serene space for all-day heated dips, and little Smiths can join you until 6pm; evening swims are for adults only.

Spa

The state-of-the-art spa fuses Japanese design with modern technologies: you’ll find cutting-edge wellness, such as cryotherapy, a hyperbaric chamber, infrared sauna and red-light therapy room, within its wood-panelled walls and behind its shoji doors. Classic face and body treatments are tailored to you.

Packing tips

A craving for street food: Osaka’s culinary scene is renowned for okonomiyaki, takoyaki and kushikatsu.

Also

Patina Osaka follows in the illustrious footsteps of Smith stablemate Patina Maldives; both are masterminded by Capella hotels.

Children

Welcome. Every room has a tatami bed that can be made up on request, and for an additional cost, takes a baby cot or extra bed for one under-12. Babysitting with an external provider can be arranged for an extra charge.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Barin’s six-seater private dining room has privileged views of Osaka Castle; perches on P72’s terrace, or by the floor-to-ceiling windows in Nijiri or Iñaki are also prized.

Dress Code

Leave your Uniqlo pieces for your room: Sacai and Issey Miyake are a better fit for the hotel’s polished look.

Hotel restaurant

The hotel takes culinary cues from its epicurean locale for its host of dining spots. Basque-inspired Iñaki is a bright-and-airy space that’s warmed by an open-kitchen and flame-grilled dishes; you’ll become acquainted with this view-blessed spot each morning at breakfast, which spotlights local ingredients in buffet and à la carte options. Barin is an intimate teppanyaki restaurant, where fine dining is made into a show of searing prime cuts and seasonal vegetables. Plant-focused P72 peddles hotel-grown produce and farm-to-table cooking in organic, wholesome lunch and afternoon-tea menus; you’ll also find the latter at tea parlour Nijiri, which marries traditional Japanese brews with buttery French pastries.

Hotel bar

If Sofia Coppola did a reboot of Lost in Translation, we’d peg Sonata Bar & Lounge to be the duo’s next sky-high, late-night drinking spot. Its vast views of Osaka Castle are as distracting as its masterful cocktails, pintxos bites and DJ sets. Drinks for two are made particularly atmospheric in its petite listening room. The bar pours from 2pm to 10.30pm during the week, from noon on weekends.

Last orders

At Iñaki, breakfast is 6.30am–10.30am; lunch is 11.30am–3pm, and dinner is 5.30pm–8pm. Barin serves lunch from 11.30am–3pm, weekends only; dinner is 5.30pm–8pm, Wednesday to Sunday. P72 opens daily 10am–6pm; Nijiri from 11.30am–4.30pm.

Room service

You can order dishes from a dedicated menu to your door at any hour.

Location

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Address
Patina Osaka
3-91 Banbacho
Chuo Ward
540-0007
Japan

Patina Osaka overlooks Osaka Castle, its south moat and plum tree-lined gardens in the east of the bustling port city.

Planes

Kansai International Airport is a 45-minute drive from the hotel; staff can arrange transfers for an additional cost.

Trains

Shinkansen routes from Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima call at Osaka rail station, which is a 10-minute drive from the hotel. For whizzing around your city locale, hop on the JR at Morinomiya or Tanimachi Yon-Chome, which are each a 10-minute walk away; at certain times, the hotel runs a free shuttle service to these subway stations.

Automobiles

Leave the driving to taxis or organised transfers; walking or the subway are preferred options in Osaka. Should you choose to drive, the hotel has a private carpark with electric-vehicle charging points and valet parking for JPY7,000 a night.

Worth getting out of bed for

At Patina Osaka, you’re on the doorstep of the city’s famed landmark — 16th-century Osaka Castle, a tiered gilded feat of architecture. Its park blushes with pink blooms in sakura season; year round, staff can lead you on scenic runs along its trails. Deep-dive into Japan’s religious harmony with a stroll around Buddhist Shitenno-ji temple, before heading further south to Shintoist Sumiyoshi Taisha shrine.

After feeding your soul, feast on street-food favourites at Kuroman Ichiba Market or slurp vibrant matcha in an intimate tea ceremony. You could watch sumo wrestlers train in a private viewing; pick up bespoke blades from an artisanal knife workshop in Sakai, or watch traditional Noh or Bunraku performances (Osaka is the birthplace of Japanese theatre). A day trip to Nara National Park brings the chance to spy docile deer and marvel at its giant Buddha-toting Tōdai-ji temple.

Local restaurants

Osaka-ryori Asai’s open-kitchen is kept busy with its lengthy à la carte and set-menu offerings, which are expertly whipped up from Kuromon Market’s seasonal produce. At starred Kushikatsu Bon Kitashinchi, top Wagyu beef is paired with fine wines, alongside speciality kushikatsu skewers. You’ll tick off Osaka’s staple dish at Okonomiyaki Goeimon, a fuss-free eatery flipping savoury pancakes on a central grill.

Local cafés

Wabi-sabi Wad hand-whisks ceremonial matcha, which is served in ceramic bowls alongside syrup-drenched shaved ice and grilled mochi cakes. Industrial-chic Mel Coffee Roasters serves up to-go brews and bags of its house-roasted beans.

Local bars

Once you’ve found its hidden entrance, low-lit Bar Nayuta shakes up rewards in the form of arcane cocktails made with homemade bitters and syrups. Bar K exudes old-world charm with its jazz soundtrack and vintage furnishings, but its punchy tipples are suitably modern.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this past-meets-present hotel in Osaka and unpacked their okonomiyaki recipes and market finds, a full account of their cultural city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Patina Osaka in Japan…

Sojourns at Patina Osaka are a polished prelude to the rest of the city (and country). You can work out like a sumo wrestler in its all-hours gym; adopt a mood of quiet contemplation at ceremonious afternoon tea; experience Japan’s demure and attentive omotenashi (concept of hospitality), and feel like the king — or sh?gun — of the castle with Osaka’s fortress just next door.

This bucket-list neighbour will photo-bomb shots from some contemporary suites, the spa’s window-wrapped pool and the hotel’s five dining spots; bag teppanyaki Barin’s private room or a spot on plant-based P72’s terrace for more intimate snaps. When the views prove too tempting, a stroll around the castle’s verdant park is a soothing, natural tonic to late nights at food markets, cocktail bars and izakayas.

Although this refined resort is laced with tasters of local culture, it’s far from cliché: Patina Osaka is not a stereotype, it’s a blueprint for Japanese hospitality.

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