IHG Hotels & Resorts opened “VOCO Osaka Central” on May 30. Located a 3-5 minute walk from the Higobashi, Honmachi, and Yodoyabashi stations of Osaka Metro, the hotel will feature a total of 191 guest rooms, a restaurant, cafe & bar, fitness room, and meeting rooms. The hotel offers a full range of services as a hotel while providing a comfortable space that feels like a familiar place.
voco Osaka Central Opening date: May 30, 2023
Location: 1-7-1 Kyomachibori, Nishi-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka
Access: 3-minute walk from Higobashi Station on Osaka Metro Yotsubashi Line, 5-minute walk from Hommachi Station, 5-minute walk from Yodoyabashi Station on Midosuji Line
Number of guest rooms: 191
［Standard Room King Bed] 13 rooms (26m2)
［Standard Room Queen Bed] 11 rooms (21m2)
［Premium Room with twin beds and sofa bed] 90 rooms (30m2)
［Premium Room King Bed] 11 rooms (30m2)
［Premium Room with King Bed Sofa Bed] 22 Rooms (30m2)
［Premium Room King Bed Accessible] 2 Rooms (30m2)
Grand Room King Bed] 11 rooms (36m2)
［Grand Room King Bed with Sofabed] 4 Rooms (40m2)
［Grand Room with twin beds and sofa bed] 15 rooms (37m2)
［Grand Room with twin beds, sofa bed, terrace access] 1 room (37m2)
［Grand Room King Bed Tatami Corner] 11 rooms (36m2) “VOCO” is a premium hotel brand with 46 hotels around the world since the brand’s birth in 2018. This time, “voco Osaka Central”, its first entry into Japan, opened on the site of the former Kyomachi Building. The name “VOCO” means “to invite” or “to call together” in Latin. The brand aims to provide an experience based on three concepts: “Come on in with a warm welcome,” “Me time,” and “voco life,” a dish that is appropriate for the occasion.
Artwork decorating the building and space using old wood Kyomachibori, Osaka, was once a town where people moved from Fushimi, Kyoto, and developed. voco Osaka Central was built on the site of the old Kyomachi Building, a historical building that has been a symbol of Kyomachibori since its construction in 1926. Despite its modern and stylish exterior, once you step into the building, you will find a warm and inviting space made of old wood. In the atrium space that houses the lobby, restaurant, and bar, a wooden structure made of reclaimed and utilized old timbers recovered from actual houses sits. Original artwork themed on the history of the city was also displayed in the building. Memory of the City with Floating Cotton Clouds” decorates the walls of the open-air atrium restaurant, and a collage of photographs of the Osaka cityscape depicts the exterior of the former Kyomachi Building. The “drawing p-p-f/f-f-k” wall art in the bar area is designed with a motif of flowing water. Other artworks include objects made from reused steel doors of the former Kyomachi Building, artwork made from reused valves of the former Kyomachi Building, and ceiling motifs made from reused reliefs of the former Kyomachi Building. The elevator ceiling is designed to look as if the surface of the water is shimmering, as Kyoto is the water capital connecting Kyoto and Osaka.
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