Seaside Hotel Maiko Villa Kobe

Japan , Hyogo
KOBE, Higashi Maiko-cho, 18-11
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100 reviews shown

6/10

Pleasant

15 Mar 2026

Dustin

No availability for massages

10/10

Exceptional

06 Mar 2026

YONGJIANG

very nice place to stay at; reasonably priced and well maintained

Self

10/10

Exceptional

05 Mar 2026

Mark

Currently the closest Hotel location next to the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge. Just a short Elevator/tram ride down to the park area. Note: If you get a room with the bridge view, those rooms will seriously heat up as they face west. Sure air-condition is available, but it will lose the cooling competition. Make sure the curtains are closed prior to going out (Japanese hotels switch off indoor power when you leave the room w/door keys)

10/10

Exceptional

15 Feb 2026

Masaharu

Spectacular sunset view of Akashi bridge and Setouchi sea.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

22 Dec 2025

Jane

The room is too hot. With the window open, train and motorcycle are very noisy.

Friends_and_family Friends

6/10

Pleasant

05 Dec 2025

Shaw Jiun

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

09 Nov 2025

Peter

Very clean rooms and all the staff were very friendly. Beautiful gardens.

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

30 Oct 2025

Matt

The service at the front desk wasn’t impressive. The restaurant didn’t help. I had to get up and find someone to place my order and later to pay.

10/10

Exceptional

17 Oct 2025

ETHEL

Even though the annex is s bit of a hike, the recently remodeled room was marvelous. And the staff is always wonderful!

10/10

Exceptional

15 Aug 2025

David

I am Canadian and recently retired from my position as President of a famous Japanese company in both
Canada and USA.

I have been to Japan upwards of 50 times and I have been spoiled staying at some of the most wonderful hotels and resorts throughout Asia, North America, Caribbean etc.

I am currently spending 90 days in Japan therefore, within budget, I am staying at moderately priced hotels throughout the country and I came upon this hotel.

With my many experience over the years, there is no doubt...this is in the top 5 of the BEST HOTELS I have ever stayed at!

It is absolutely beautiful and elegant in that wonderfully understated Japanese way.

1. Lobby
It's the first thing we usually notice when entering a hotel.
This lobby is beautiful, spacious and elegant.

2. Room
As a solo traveller on a budget, I chose a single room. But it was perfect. Unlike North America, Japanese hotel rooms are relatively small, but so well organized.

3. Breakfast
This is without doubt one of the BEST buffet style breakfasts I have ever had! Not only is the selection wide and varied, but the quality of the food and taste is absolutely outstanding!

4. Pool
Yes, as noted in other reviews, there is a cost for using the swimming pool. BUT, that is somewhat common in Japan.
When we consider the amazing low nightly cost for the room, so what. Paying for use of the pool is no big deal.

In conclusion: I plan to return to this hotel again before my trip is over. I LOVE this hotel!

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

24 Jun 2025

miki

Great view & clean room and facility

Family

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jun 2025

Fred

Nice view

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

23 Mar 2025

Tiffany

Lovely stay.

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

05 Feb 2025

Brian

I stayed here because of the unimpeded view of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge. It did not disappoint. Recently refurbished, the hotel is extremely luxurious for the price. Take the breakfast buffet option. There is an abundance to choose from and the staff are extremely friendly and attentive. I really enjoyed my stay.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

31 Oct 2024

Matthew

Very nice

Slightly dated but high class hotel. Luck of the draw if reception speak english. Breakfast buffet outstanding choices. Close enough to both stations.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

21 Oct 2024

Simon

Fabulous hotel stunning views of Kobe Awaji bridge

Wonderful hotel in terms of comfort, location, luxury. Great onsen nearby, stunning view from 7th floor room, ten minutes walk to beach, fabulous meal in hotel's Japanese restaurant. 10 stops from Sannomiya in central Kobe. Perfect hotel justifies relatively high cost.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

10 Oct 2024

Ksenia

Great property, but was definitely a step down from Sheraton at Rokko island. Beautiful area and views. Beds are much harder than Sheraton, and bathroom smaller, for a similar price.

10/10

Exceptional

21 Sep 2024

Keith

Great breakfast buffet. Gracious staff. Very clean and elegant space.

Business_and_leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

27 May 2024

Andrew

I enjoyed the beautiful view of the bridge, and the public bath available to guests.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

16 Feb 2024

Jesse

Mattresses a bit stiff & could use updating. At least this hotel was cheaper than any other hotel in Kobe because of Chinese New Year.

Leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

24 Oct 2023

Isebella

Good \"escape\"spot for the weekends. Enjoyed the relaxed environment and seaside views from the hotel. Great place for morning and evening walks along the seaside. A little disappointment as some hotel restaurant closed due to Pandemic but hopefully they may reopen later. Buffet at the major restaurant was not outstanding but we enjoyed having relaxed meals there..
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8/10

Excellent

16 Jul 2023

Jestar

A great place to stay and walking distance to the beach and bridge area.

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

25 Aug 2021

jonah

View was great, lobby spacious. Although obviously few visitors, refused to bend on 3pm check-in, 11a.m. check-out. Restaurant very expensive and low quality. Few ala carte offerings, and these expensive.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

30 Aug 2020

Marc-Eric

The staff did a great job of trying to keep people distanced and safe. The new hot spring and spa is very nice . The poole was way too crowded though.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

01 Apr 2020

Barbara

Very clean, and friendly staff. Location is lovely, and close to train station.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

15 Mar 2020

Grace Mc

Room view is beautiful

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

26 Dec 2019

Verified traveler

Nice view of the bridge and the park, we enjoyed the unique location of this hotel. Buffet dinner and included breakfast were great. A relaxed stay during our visit to Maiko. Shuttle bus was very helpful.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

16 Dec 2019

Verified traveler

very good hotel position and good quality hotel room and restaurants

Leisure Family_with_children

10/10

Exceptional

27 Oct 2019

KEVIN

We enjoyed everything about our stay. We are so glad we decided upon the Maiko Villa Kobe.

All staff gave great service. At breakfast, the one waiter offered to take our photos with my phone. He then made sure we got a few great mementos of our stay.

Our room was overlooking the water. We had a prime view of the bridge. The night view was incredible. We watched ships coming and going, and we watched the bridge lights changing colours.

There was a set of steps alongside the hotel, leading down to the beach promenade. We enjoyed a few walks along the beach and under the bridge.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

08 Oct 2019

Vincent

Maiko villa review

Close to train station and seven eleven convenience store

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

04 Oct 2019

Ma Ka Chun

Spectacular seaview, delicious breakfast!!!

All rooms facing the Akashi Bridge are fantastic! My wife & I love the scenic view & we enjoyed the breakfast most because it has such a large variety of dishes compared to other hotels. Room is spacious. If the room can install a safety box, that would make it more convenient. This is my second time staying in the hotel & definitely will go back soon!!

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

03 Oct 2019

Murray

Good Hotel But A Little Far From Central Kobe

The hotel is very nice but the pool was not in use and hadn’t been for some time, there was a nice outside terrace area but no sun beds or even tables and chairs on it.
Room was in good condition and very clean.
Breakfast was good and supposed to be available until 10 but food started to be cleared away around 09:45
Communication was not great, some of the information was only in Japanese and some desk staff didn’t speak English.

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

16 Aug 2019

Verified traveler

View view view!

Clean rooms, amazing view! Too high prices for dinner at the hotel. Nothing special.
Pool too small, not worth the money. Nice breakfast (buffet).
It’s all about the view!

Family

8/10

Excellent

09 Aug 2019

Yasuyo

Disappointment was 1) public bathroom was under construction and I was notified when I booked the hotel, and 2) my son used kiddy pool and was charged, in addition to that charge, they charge towel rent.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

10 Jun 2019

anonymous

Good location with nice ocean view. Newly renovated.

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

28 May 2019

Ros

Wonderful position overlooking bridge and seaside. Good dining. Good sized room, needs deodorising, beds a little hard for western people.

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

22 Apr 2019

Verified traveler

Spacious room with ocean view

The room was very spacious and clean. We enjoyed the ocean view from our room. Check in/out was very smooth and staff was very friendly. The hotel was about 10 minutes walk from the closest train station. The hotel offers a free shuttle service (every 30 minutes or so on a set schedule).

Partner

8/10

Excellent

18 Mar 2019

Barbara

the beds where very very hard and not enough pillows. everything else was really great.

Family

6/10

Pleasant

17 Mar 2019

Chau Yee

Overall the stay was good. However, I was disappointed with the services. First, there were no one helping on the luggages, which is fine, but what is not fine was there is quite a bit of walk from the entrance to the reception front desk. In addition, when we have found a dinning place but the GPS couldn't gave us a location using telephone number shown on the restaurant website, so, when I tried to ask some help from front desk to see if they can call the restaurant to confirm the phone no. and location, the front desk asked me to call myself using my phone number (which will be using roaming charges) or go to my room to use the phone from the room and refused to help.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

11 Oct 2018

Wasabi

Very nice hotel. Great view. Enjoy great buffet breakfast.

10/10

Exceptional

05 Aug 2018

Joseph

Excellent breakfast venue.

Family

8/10

Excellent

11 Jun 2018

alice

Nice hotel with a beautiful seaview.

The hotel is beautiful and clean. The beach is very nice. The room is clean and spacious. Staff does not speak english. A good place to laze because there are sumptuous buffet lunch or dinner. There is a free shuttle bus from the Maiko JR station which is about 20mins train ride from Kobe-sanomiya train station. At this vibrant Sanomiya station, you can make inquiries at the tourist information centre. There are English and Chinese speaking officers. After enjoying a nice unagi lunch at the basement of Sanomiya station, we took a bus to the popular place, Arima Onsen.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

04 Jun 2018

Mark

This hotel has a lovely view of the Akashi Bridge which you can walk to and explore a museum with walkways high up over the water. The rooms are huge and comfortable with stunning views. A shuttle takes you to the JR station too. I recommend it but it is a little far from the main sights in Kobe, so if you want to pop in and out of Kobe with your JR pass on the Shinkansen, then this might not be the best choice. For a quiet respite from the tiny little rooms in Tokyo with a great view, its good.

10/10

Exceptional

17 Dec 2017

Chih Wei

Perfect Short Trip from Kyoto to Akashi

Amazing view from the room window facing directly to Akashi Bridge. View of sunset made this trip the most memorable this year. Room was spacious with great rates. Seaside neighborhood, although a bit windy and cold during Winter but comfortable to stroll around.

10/10

Exceptional

06 Dec 2017

Verified traveler

Would go back again

Helpful friendly yet polite employees, wonderful selection of breakfast buffet, the view from the window, some tourist attractions around including outlet mall, it was a great experience.

6/10

Pleasant

11 Oct 2017

Terry

Views of Bay

Extra bed was roll out mattress on floor that had to be made up. Breakfast was reasonable facilities considered standard reastaurants in area not open for long last orders 9pm.

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jul 2017

Verified traveler

Nice hotel, Good view. Great breakfast. Friendly staff.

10/10

Exceptional

29 Jun 2017

Verified traveler

Excellent location to Akashi bridge, park, and Maiko station. (5 to 10 minutes walk.) There is shuttle service between hotel and Maiko station.

6/10

Pleasant

11 Jun 2017

Francisco

Seaside ok?

Rooms were a mile away from main
Lobby. Cigarette smoke from the party room area and walls thin.

Family

8/10

Excellent

28 Mar 2017

Verified traveler

Nice location overlooking water

This hotel was in a nice location overlooking the water and the Akashi Kaikyo bridge. Close to a nice walking path and shopping. The lobby is very nice. The rooms are a bit in need of updating, but were comfortable.

6/10

Pleasant

02 Mar 2017

Verified traveler

Good for a business trip.

Morning view of the Akashi bridge was great. As the hotel's right next to the ocean, air's refreshing, too. Room is somewhat old, and the bed was pretty hard. Room service food was below expectations. A fine hotel for a business trip.

8/10

Excellent

11 Dec 2016

Verified traveler

Nice hotel close to the beach and train station

Very friendly staff and clean hotel, good location ~6 mins walking distance to the beach and train station. nice view and restaurants with variety of foods.

10/10

Exceptional

21 Jul 2016

CHIA JUNG

VERY GOOD OVERALL

VERY CLEAN, EVERYWHERE. BIG TUB. IF YOU WANT TO BUY SOMETHING AT A CONVENIENT STORE, YOU MUST TAKE SHUTTLE BUSES TO MIKO RAILWAY STATION.

Family

8/10

Excellent

06 Oct 2015

Annie

Our view was just like the advert.

The reception area is out of this world, so bright, airy, roomy. Our room view was the same as shown in the advertisement. We wanted to arrange for our luggage to be picked up and sent ahead to the airport, so we didn't have to carry it through several train stations and on to the Shinkansen, and as we do not know any Japanese, and the staff had limited English, thought this may have been a problem. It was not, between us, we were able to sort this with the staff who were so helpful and patient, we were so very grateful.

8/10

Excellent

04 Jun 2015

Yann Mei

sea view

First time staying in this hotel. Fantastic view. Thanks to the hotel for giving me a room with sea view. peaceful surroundings. Sunset was beautiful. Is only a little pity that the hotel don't provide breakfast for the package i'v choose.

Family

10/10

Exceptional

30 Oct 2014

Tina

My stay at Maiko Villa

My stay was excellent. The staff was very polite and considerate and went above and beyond. The restaurants were really top notch and the service there was excellent. Was also in very close proximity to Tarumi station with lots of shopping and restaurant choices and even closer to Maiko stations, which is a little smaller but with it's own perks! I would highly recommend this hotel.

10/10

Exceptional

10 Jul 2014

Verified traveler

Had a outstanding time, very nice and quite hotel to relax. The view of the bridge from my hotel room was amazing. Would love to come back to this hotel again.

10/10

Exceptional

15 Mar 2026

YUMIKO

シャワー室なのが、残念でした。

Self

8/10

Excellent

08 Mar 2026

HIROMI

部屋が広く快適にすごせました。部屋からの眺めもよく朝食も美味しかったです。ただ、朝食の席が少ないので満席の場合は少し待たないといけないです。

Family

10/10

Exceptional

03 Mar 2026

Hiromasa

設備も綺麗でいい感じでした。
ただ学生が多かったので、はしゃいだりするような人がいたので、そこは微妙でした。

8/10

Excellent

28 Feb 2026

Kanae

とても心地よく過ごすことができました。

Family

10/10

Exceptional

26 Feb 2026

Takujiro

ホテルの客室は広く景色がよく、海と明石大橋がよく見える素晴らしい部屋でした。大浴場、朝食などもともて質が高く、価格以上のサービスでした。

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

18 Feb 2026

Kei

お気に入りのバーで美味しいお酒を飲めた事や大浴場、ジムなど設備がリニューアルしておりとてもコスパが高かった

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

11 Feb 2026

akiho

素泊まりプランでしたが、急遽ホテル内のバイキングに行くことになりました。予約してなかったですが、平日でもありスムーズに入れていただけました。おいしかったです☆（白ごはんにかける袋のふりかけがあれば、子供も食べやすいなと思いました。）
お風呂も綺麗で夜と朝2回入りました！！
部屋のロケーションも良かったのでまた絶対行きます！！

Family_with_children

10/10

Exceptional

08 Feb 2026

masako

新館SPAタワー利用。部屋が広くてきれい、３人利用でエキストラベッド？でも寝心地良いベッドでゆっくり眠れた。ロクシタン製品とリファのドライヤーが備え付け、SPAも朝食のビュッフェも種類も多く満足な滞在となりました。

Leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

31 Jan 2026

SHINYA

今回出張で使用いたしました。
とても良かったそうです。

10/10

Exceptional

30 Jan 2026

Simone

O quarto estava muito lindo,a equipe super atenciosa

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

24 Jan 2026

YUMIKO

対応は丁寧でした。いつも気持ちよくつかわせていただいています。

Business_and_leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

17 Jan 2026

Reiko

部屋は清潔で快適。窓からの眺望も満足

Self

10/10

Exceptional

16 Jan 2026

Tomoko

広く清潔な部屋からの眺望が最高でした。
大浴場からは何も見えませんが、とても温まる温泉でした。
朝食も洋風の種類が多く美味しかったです。

Leisure Partner

4/10

Poor

02 Jan 2026

Shinichi

自販機が壊れていて、他の自販機にはお茶と水しかなくて、お札も使えなかった。氷の機械もなくうろうろした。

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

23 Dec 2025

YONGSOO

朝食の種類が多くて楽しめました

10/10

Exceptional

14 Dec 2025

Tatsunori

景色も良く最高でした。

Business Friends

8/10

Excellent

13 Dec 2025

Naoki

部屋からの海と橋が見えてとても奇麗だった。朝食の種類も豊富で満足度が高かった。また、スパも楽しめて顔がつるんとなった。

Business Family

10/10

Exceptional

13 Dec 2025

Kaori

一泊でしたがものすごく設備や大浴場のアニメティやリファの商品を試せたのでよかった。
オーシャンビューで気持ちよく起きれました♡

10/10

Exceptional

06 Dec 2025

YUTAKA

接客が丁寧で、施設も清潔感がありとても良かったです

Partner

8/10

Excellent

10 Nov 2025

Takayuki

部屋のロケーションが最高でした‼️

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

24 Oct 2025

josué Gabriel

Muy bueno. Exclente

Leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

16 Oct 2025

KOZUE

大浴場がとても綺麗でした

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

09 Oct 2025

部屋からの景色が綺麗でした

10/10

Exceptional

09 Oct 2025

Manami

2人部屋（新館）と5人部屋（本館）に宿泊したことがあります。
ロケーションが最高で一緒に行った人は皆感動していました。
部屋は広くて清潔感があります。特に5人部屋の存在はありがたく、洗面台が2台あるのも使いやすくて◎です。
あと、地元食材を使った料理が種類豊富でどれもおいしいです。

中心地から少し離れており、特に大阪近辺に用事がある場合は移動に少々時間を要するのと、
近くにコンビニが無く、駅前も夜遅いと全て閉まっているので注意が必要です。
それをふまえても泊まってみる価値はあると思います。

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

24 Sep 2025

yoko

備品やアメニティにこだわってて、内装もモダンで無駄がなく非常に快適に過ごせました！
ありがとうございました

10/10

Exceptional

22 Sep 2025

masatoshi

近くにコンビニが無い

Leisure Family