APA Hotel Chiba Yachiyo Midorigaoka

The location is perfect! Safe & well lit. Right out the door is not only a train station but a shopping center/grocery store, with food court, clothes, home goods, travel necessities, children toys & activities. Along with a 7-eleven at the intersection and other restaurants in the vicinity. I love the lighting/AC control panel in the bed!! Your keycard is the light & tv switch. Plugs are abundant throughout the room. Not a huge selection of movies for VOD but I think they do change monthly or something & streaming services are available if you have an account. YouTube too. LOVE the daily change of towels/toiletries/wellness accessories and being able to put out dirty ones and trash outside the door to be collected. And idk how they did it, but I’m pretty sure the mirror in the bathroom is treated bc it doesn’t completely fog up when showering. It’s like perfectly clear in the middle where you’d look. The staff is nice and helpful, some English speakers. They offer luggage storage. The onsite restaurant is good & convenient. The wellness facilities are a great bonus, as is the vending & laundry machines. Fast elevators. Decent views. Not great exchange rates but you can also exchange currency. The room/hotel is up to date & perfect for one, I extended my stay twice!

Rooms are on the smaller side(cabin style is not a lie, think cruise ship cabin rooms for one), but this is as advertised. Not necessarily something I minded but just worth noting.. you can hear the trains across the way.. reminiscent of luggage rolling down a tiled hallway, just a smidge louder. Again, was no big deal to me, and of course the trains stop around midnight or so, but just to note if you’re super sensitive to that kind of thing.

Everything loved the location

Onsen is no tattoo if you need a non traditional one

Convenient The hot bath on the second floor

It has an onsen. Quite a good one.

They gave me a room that stunk of filthy cigarette smoke. Had not even been aired.