Good Bless Garden Sauna&Stay

The guest locker keys get hot in the sauna and can nearly burn your skin if they touch you. The guest lockers hang loose, which feels a bit worrying, while the visitor lockers are tucked inside plastic and seem more secure. I really hope they fix the lock issue. The outside cleaning contractor also needs attention. On a day I'd requested cleaning, I came back to find somebody's used in-house clothes on the table. That's ridiculous. My room was also the only one without tissues, even though I could see them in other rooms. I asked staff and they brought some over, saying they weren't an optional extra and the outside contractor had missed them. The contractor's quality seems low. Even with those problems, the front desk and other employees seemed well trained and made a very good impression. Laundry service at the front desk costs 400 yen. If they're busy, staff take your laundry and wash it when they have time. I checked back three hours later and found it neatly folded in a Takashimaya shopping cart. I've never seen a hotel in Japan do this. I've traveled for work in every prefecture, and this felt like an innovative service. It would be hard to get a machine otherwise, so I appreciated the staff taking responsibility. Maybe they wash towels for work too, but either way, it was a great service. The restaurant charges meals to your room number, but the vending machines don't, and they don't take the new 1,000 yen bills. There's nowhere inside to eat breakfast, so you have to go out. I think the building has central air conditioning, and it can get hot at times, so bring a portable fan. I ended up staying four nights after I couldn't get a room at any hotels. I was unsure if I'd have a private room or sleep well, but this turned out great. I was there on my own, taking a few days off work, and chose to eat inside rather than out. It costs around 5,000 yen to stay, so it's good value. The personal area is about 10 rooms divided into three sections, with upper and lower bunk rooms next to each other. The beds weren't small. There's also a shared space for watching TV, eating, drinking, and remote meetings. You're not allowed to eat, drink, or take phone calls in the rooms. The sixth floor has a reclining area and restaurant. The restaurant is mostly run by one staff member, so order efficiently. Some of the student customers were a bit inconsiderate of one person doing all the work. One of our three students ordered yakitori with sauce, then a few minutes after it came, another ordered salt. I found myself thinking, all three of us are ordering, what a pain. A couple minutes after the salt order was ready, the third person ordered the sauce. Oh no, they messed that up. They probably thought it looked good because their friend had it, but this isn't an izakaya. Still, the food is delicious, with generous options, and everything I ordered tasted good and wasn't expensive, at most around 1,200 yen. I expected food at a place like this to be mediocre and overpriced, but that wasn't the case. The menu was so extensive that choosing was hard, lol. I tried chicken nanban set, hamburger steak meat pasta, hormone bowl, fried chicken bento, Taiwanese ramen, and yakitori with three kinds of sauce. Everything was delicious, without a doubt. I thought it was amazing. I couldn't manage my timings well enough to avoid the sauna crowd. If a group of students is there, they talk and sing loudly, and some have no manners. They even dive into the cold bath, despite signs saying 'silent bathing' and 'no diving.' They just keep talking and jumping in. Some older men dive into the cold bath too. One morning, an old man was brushing his teeth in the shower, even though there's a sink for that. It's a pain for office workers, and the sauna can feel full of students and older people with poor manners. If you can time it right, maybe it's fine.