Osaka hotels see room for rate increases ahead of Expo 2025

Lack of foreign brands keeps prices lower than in Tokyo

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Canopy by Hilton Osaka Umeda opened in the autumn of 2024, its first hotel in Japan operating under that brand. (Photo by Yo Inoue)

KATSUYUKI TANIMOTO

OSAKA -- Hotels in Osaka are more affordable than in Tokyo, in part because there are fewer international names in western Japan's biggest city. But with the upcoming Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, and the planned opening of a casino resort, room rates are likely to climb as more overseas guests visit the region. 

According to STR, a subsidiary of U.S.-based CoStar Group, a real estate data analysis company, the dollar-denominated average daily rate (ADR) for hotels in Osaka prefecture in 2024 was $128, just 0.4% higher than the prepandemic year of 2019.

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