I am staying at a hotel called Hotel MyStays Sakaisuji-Honmachi. You probably won't have heard of it before.

http://www.mystays.jp/e/location/sak...nmachi/access/

The above link gives me some indication of which stations to be getting to from KIX, but how do I decide which line I need from the airport anyway? And then, do I really walk with luggage from, say, Nanba station, or do I get a taxi?

Will taxi drivers even be likely to know obscure hotels like that? I guess I could give them a map? But I don't speak Japanese.

I never had this problem on my forays into Tokyo, because they have the Friendly Airport Limousine Bus which stops at my very hotel. Plus it seems easier to get to Tokyo/Shinjuku station from NRT than it does to Osaka station from KIX.

No direct trains! Unbelievable! Even London has direct trains, and I mean, that's...London!

I am looking at the JR West Airport Rapid Service to Osaka Station (change first at Hineno ), and then get a taxi from there to my hotel.