Originally Posted by
stvr
Do I read the room descriptions correctly that the bathrooms are public, not private? Sort of youth hostel meets bourgeois.
Originally Posted by
bjdj94
I was wondering this too, and I'm still confused. Looking at one of the guest room photos, the description says "moderate double rooms have no bathtub, you can enjoy our public bathroom Hiyori Moderate double rooms have bathtubs." So I guess some rooms have bathtubs and others don't? If your room doesn't have a bathtub, do you still get a sink and toilet? Then there's a picture of a bathroom with a bathtub? This obviously needs to be better clarified. If I unexpectedly showed up in a room with a partial bathroom, I would be quite unhappy.
It appears to be an error in translation. All non-suite room categories have two different layouts/hard products of bathrooms. The standard bathroom comes with enclosed shower as well as toilet areas (no bathtub), kinda like the bathroom you would see at Fairfield hotels in Japan, whereas the “public” bathroom is actually just a modularized bathroom that comes with a shower/tub combo, which is common at mid-scale hotels in Japan. See pictures below. One thing for sure is that all guest rooms have bathrooms.
above: standard layout
above: “public” layout