Hotels
Meeting hotels in Osaka: MICE hotels with meeting rooms, conference hotels with ballrooms and business hotels near convention centres. Capacities, access, budget.
9 hotels
Controlled rates, direct transport access and corporate comfort: the ideal base for large groups, roadshows and congress delegates.
Osaka Bay
A training- and seminar-focused hotel 3 minutes from INTEX Osaka: about 320 rooms and 27 meeting spaces, including The Cosmo Hall (918 m², up to 600 people) and a 346-seat auditorium. One of the few fully integrated seminar hotels on Osaka Bay.
Tanimachi
A business hotel of about 180 rooms, 1 minute from Tanimachi 4-chome subway station, between the Honmachi business district and Osaka Castle. A 127 m² multipurpose room (up to 80 theater-style) hosts a meeting or group dinner.
Shinsaibashi
A Candeo hotel in Higashi-Shinsaibashi, known for its rooftop open-air bath (Sky Spa) and quality bedding. A comfortable, economical option for housing a group in the heart of Minami.
Shinsaibashi
A 229-room design hotel between Shinsaibashi and Dotonbori, with a lively restaurant-lounge. A stylish urban base for an incentive or team wanting to experience Osaka from the inside.
Kitahama
A 260-room business hotel directly connected to Kitahama subway station, in Osaka's historic financial district by the river. An efficient base for delegates at a Nakanoshima event or a seminar in the business center.
Umeda
A hotel with classic European-inspired decor, 5 minutes from JR Osaka Station on the edge of the Kitashinchi dining district. It has banquet and meeting rooms: an elegant, affordable option in Umeda.
Nakanoshima
A 141-room business hotel in the Nakanoshima Center Building, a 3-minute walk from Grand Cube Osaka. Listed by the convention center itself, it is the most economical way to house speakers, staff and delegates right next to the venue.
Higobashi
A Rihga-group business hotel (formerly Rihga Nakanoshima Inn) at Higobashi subway exit, with around 330 rooms. Listed by Grand Cube Osaka among its nearby hotels, it complements Rihga Royal Hotel Osaka for housing delegates at a controlled cost.
Namba
A recent (2022) 123-room business hotel 2 minutes from Namba subway station and Dotonbori. A practical, economical option for a group wanting to experience Osaka's food-and-nightlife Minami district.
5 hotels
Large volumes, ballrooms, breakout rooms and banquets: the whole meeting under one roof.
Ambience · OsakaNamba
A 546-room hotel directly above Nankai Namba Station, 35–40 minutes from KIX with no change. A 1,120 m² main hall (up to 1,400 theater-style) and 17 other spaces: the most practical convention hotel in southern Osaka.
Sakuranomiya
A 378-room hotel on the Okawa riverside and a benchmark of Japanese hospitality. Its 1,665 m² main hall (up to 1,200 theater-style) and some twenty other spaces make it a top choice for galas and prestige conventions.
Ambience · OsakaUmeda (Oyodo)
A 303-room hotel opened in 1993 in Shin-Umeda City, at the foot of the Umeda Sky Building, and Japan's first Westin. Rooms of at least 41 m², a 900 m² Rose Room (up to 1,100 theater-style) and around eight function rooms: a calm, spacious base a few minutes from Osaka Station.
Umeda
A 562-room hotel opposite JR Osaka Station, with 16 banquet spaces including an 823 m² main hall (up to 1,000 theater-style). A corporate-convention classic in Umeda, 7 minutes on foot from Knowledge Capital.
Kobe – Kyu-Kyoryuchi (Hyōgo)
A hotel in Kobe's former foreign settlement, opened in 2010 as the Oriental Hotel (heir to the hotel founded in 1870) and renamed THE ORIENT in late 2024. Two 227 m² rooms for up to 273 theatre-style, smaller function rooms and rooms overlooking the harbour.
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Hotels with genuine convention floors — plenaries for several hundred people, many meeting rooms, experienced banquet teams — or directly connected to a convention centre.
Osaka Castle
A 525-room hotel facing Osaka Castle, home to western Japan's largest banquet hall: Hoh, 2,380 m², up to 3,100 theater-style. The quintessential MICE hotel for very large conventions and gala dinners.
Osaka Bay
The former Hyatt Regency Osaka, operated since July 2023 as Grand Prince Hotel Osaka Bay. Right next to INTEX Osaka, it offers 480 rooms and the largest hall on the bay: 1,790 m², up to nearly 2,500 theater-style.
Nakanoshima
Osaka's largest conference hotel: about 1,000 rooms, 56 banquet spaces and a 1,360 m² main hall (up to 1,800 theater-style). Renovated and rebranded as a Vignette Collection (IHG) hotel in 2025, it connects directly to Grand Cube Osaka.
Uehommachi
A 574-room hotel connected to Kintetsu Uehommachi Station, featuring the Naniwa hall (1,032 m², up to 1,200 theater-style) inspired by European palaces. An ideal logistics base for combining an Osaka convention with trips to Nara or Ise.
Shinsaibashi
A 605-room hotel connected to Shinsaibashi subway station, on Midosuji Avenue. Its Tsuru hall (660 m², up to 970 theater-style) and smaller rooms make it a central convention tool between Umeda and Namba.
3 hotels
Discretion, tailored service and private salons for leadership teams, board meetings and high-end incentives.
Umeda
A 291-room luxury hotel in Nishi-Umeda with English-manor decor. With a 1,174 m² main hall (up to 1,500 theater-style) and around ten spaces, it combines rare convention capacity with top-tier service.
Umeda
A 272-room luxury hotel in Grand Front Osaka, above Osaka Station and in the same complex as the Knowledge Capital Congrès Convention Center. A 400 m² ballroom (up to 400 theater-style) and some of Umeda's most spacious rooms.
Nakanoshima
A 164-room luxury hotel on the upper floors of a Nakanoshima tower, with panoramic views over Osaka. Seven event spaces including a 225 m² room (180 people): designed for executive committees, VIP dinners and top-tier incentives.
Osaka
グランキューブ大阪（大阪府立国際会議場）
Grand Cube Osaka is Osaka's flagship international convention center on Nakanoshima island, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and opened in 2000. It combines a 2,754-seat main hall, a 328-seat small hall, a 2,600 m² pillar-free Event Hall and more than 25 meeting rooms (27 to 540 people depending on setup). Location is its main asset: in the heart of the business district, 10 minutes from Umeda, and connected to Rihga Royal Hotel Osaka, which simplifies accommodation, banquets and transfers for congresses of 500 to 3,000 participants. It is especially well suited to medical and scientific congresses, general assemblies and corporate conventions that need a plenary plus parallel sessions.
Max. capacity 2,754 pax · 9 hotels
Ambience · OsakaOsaka
インテックス大阪
INTEX Osaka is the largest exhibition center in western Japan: 70,000 m² of exhibition space across six halls (Hall 6 divides into four zones of about 10,000 m² each) and 72 meeting rooms. Opened in 1985, it hosted the 2019 G20 Osaka Summit. Located on Osaka Bay (Nanko / Cosmosquare), it hosts more than 200 events a year: trade shows, consumer exhibitions, congresses with exhibitions and incentive parties. The largest conference room seats about 400; for a larger plenary, a hall is fitted out. Grand Prince Hotel Osaka Bay and Hotel Fukuracia Osaka Bay are a 3-minute walk away, so exhibitors and delegates can stay on site.
Osaka Bay · 2 hotels
Ambience · OsakaOsaka
ナレッジキャピタル コングレコンベンションセンター
The Congrès Convention Center is the conference facility of Grand Front Osaka, right above Osaka Station. Its main hall of about 1,700 m² (7.4 m ceiling) seats more than 1,400 theater-style and divides into two or three spaces. Nine conference rooms (40 to 600 people depending on setup), simultaneous interpretation booths for up to six languages and direct loading access make it an efficient tool for seminars, product launches, symposiums and conventions of 200 to 1,500 people. Its main strength is connectivity: JR, subway, Hankyu and Hanshin lines within minutes, and several international hotels on foot (InterContinental, Hilton, Ritz-Carlton).
Umeda · 5 hotels
Osaka
ザ・ガーデンオリエンタル・大阪
The Garden Oriental Osaka occupies the former Osaka City Guest House (Osaka-shi Kokan), a 1959 modernist building by Kenzo Takekoshi on the Okawa River next to Sakuranomiya Park. It hosted heads of state and delegations (APEC 1995, the 2019 Osaka G20 spouses' programme) before reopening in 2014 as a restaurant and event venue, on grounds of about 4,000 tsubo with a garden. Eight rooms spread between the main building and a new wing, plus a rooftop and the garden, host seminars, conferences, award ceremonies and gala dinners. The largest, the Oriental Park Room (244 m²), seats 160 and takes up to 240 theatre-style; the venue cites events of up to 480 guests by combining spaces.
Max. capacity 240 pax
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