Am here.

Platinum recognition was excellent. Breakdown of perks including lounge. Am in an "updated" room. Best described as "corporate" nice after a few days at the Hyatt Regency Kyoto (which was sublime). Service was excellent. The girls here are stronger than they seem. They were able to sling 12.5 kilo boxes around easily. Equality! I don't get a lot of the complaints in the thread. The lounge is small but during happy hour they had a good selection of appetizers (salami and smoked salmon canapés), lots of little snacks (laughing cow cheese and nuts and soyjoy bars) as well as a selection of beer and booze and fizzy drinks. No hot food but no biggie since there's that mall next door that has that tonkatsu shop (along others) on the 5th floor. If you're in Japan and somehow lounge food is the important thing for you, there's a larger issue looming.

Getting here was easy. Take JR to Tsuruhashi and transfer to the Kintetsu Nara Line to Osaka Uehommachi (next stop). Exit and turn right. Hotel is outside.