Keio Plaza Hotel Sapporo

Keio Plaza Sapporo is a high-rise luxury hotel located close to Sapporo Station. This hotel offers a variety of rooms furnished with contemporary comforts suitable for solo travelers, couples, or families. The hotels facilities include six dining venues, shops, a gym, and an indoor pool. Services include a concierge service, foreign currency exchange, and room service. Keio Plaza Sapporo’s high standards of hospitality and its convenience for local transport make it the perfect location for both business travelers on short stays or sightseeing vacationers.

Guest Rooms

Keio Plaza Sapporo has 493 guest rooms over 22 floors. Guest rooms here are graded as standard, superior, comfort, premier, or luxury. Each higher grade occupies a higher location in the hotel building so luxury suites are on the 21st floor and standard rooms are on the lower floors.

Rooms come with single, double, twin, triple, or quadruple beds. There are also “Accessible” rooms which are suitable for wheelchair users. All rooms have air conditioning and free wireless internet access and are supplied with a TV with satellite channels, a refrigerator, a telephone, an electric kettle, green tea and coffee, an air purifier with humidifier function, a safe, a hair dryer, slippers and nightwear. Bathrooms are supplied with soap, shampoo, conditioner, towels, toothbrushes, razors, combs, and shower caps. A complimentary bottle of water is provided for each guest.

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Breakfast & Dining

Keio Plaza Sapporo has 6 dining venues, a bakery, and a bar. Breakfast is served at two different restaurants. Guests can get a 10% discount on dinner at the restaurants below by showing their key card.

Glass Seasons on the 1st floor serves a buffet breakfast between 6.00 and 10.00 with last entry at 9.45. The buffet features Western style dishes such as omelettes, bread, soups, salads, and curry, and Japanese style dishes such as grilled fish, noodles, rice and miso soup. The breakfast fees for hotel guests are 2,200 yen for adults, 1,000 yen for children aged 6-12, and free for children aged 5 or younger. Glass Seasons also serves buffet meals for lunch between 11.30 and 14.30 (until 15.00 on weekends and holidays), and will take dinner reservations for groups of 15 or more.

Japanese Cuisine Miyama on the 22nd floor serves a traditional Japanese between 7.30 and 9.30. There are two set breakfast options. The Miyama Set Meal features grilled fish with an assortment of delicacies and side dishes, roasted laver seaweed, pickles, miso soup, dessert, coffee, and your choice of plain or multigrain rice. The Morning Rice Porridge Set Meal features the same items but with rice porridge instead of rice and laver seaweed simmered in soy sauce. The breakfast fee for hotel guests is 2,200 yen. This restaurant also serves traditional Japanese multi-course gourmet meals for lunch and dinner featuring the very best local delicacies and seasonal ingredients from across Japan. Lunch is served from 11.30 to 15.00 and dinner from 17.00 to 21.30. Both lunch and dinner must be reserved in advance for at least two people.

Yamanami is a teppanyaki restaurant on the 22nd floor. Here diners sit at a counter to watch the chef cooking up Kobe beef steaks, Ezo abalone, king crab and foie gras on the hot plate. Lunch is served from 11.30 to 15.00 with last orders at 2.30. Dinner is from 17.00 to 22.00 with last orders at 21.00.

Nan En is a Chinese restaurant on the B1 basement level serving traditional Cantonese course meals and a la carte dishes. Private rooms are also available in this restaurant. Lunch is from 11.30 to 15.00 with last orders at 14.30. Dinner is from 17.00 – 21.30 with last orders at 20.30.

Akizu is a restaurant on the B1 level specializing in seasonal Hokkaido dishes, sushi, sashimi, and charcoal grilled seafood. Lunch is from 11.30 to 15.00 with last orders at 14.30. Dinner is from 17.00 to 22.00 with last orders at 21.00.

Café Duet on the 1st floor serves light pasta lunches, cakes and pastries from 10.00 to 21.00 (until 18.00 on Sundays and holidays). Last orders are 30 minutes before closing.

Cross Vault on the 1st floor is the hotel bar and serves a range of fine whiskies, select sakes, and classic cocktails from 17.00 to midnight (until 11.00 on Sundays and holidays). Last orders is 30 minutes before closing.

Pastry Boutique Poppins is a bakery on the 1st floor serving cakes, pastries, and bread from 10.00 to 20.00.

Room service is also available for both breakfast (7.00 – 11.00) and dinner (17.00 – 21.30)

Other Services & Facilities

This hotel has a concierge service with friendly staff who can help with restaurant bookings and sightseeing inquiries. Check-in time is from 14.00 and check-out time is by 11.00. Luggage can be stored at reception before checking in and after checking out.

The following items can be borrowed from reception: an iron, a desk lamp, an extension cord, a power plug adapter, a hair iron, extra blankets and pillow, and a wheelchair.

Laptop computers are available to rent for 1,100 yen per night.

There is a foreign currency exchange machine on the lobby floor.

Laundry and ironing services are available at reception.

This hotel has fitness center which includes an indoor swimming pool, a full-equipped gym, an ultrasonic vibra-bath, a sauna, and a cold bath. These facilities are free to use for hotel guest between 5.00 and 9.00 in the morning.

This room has various shops including a souvenir shop, florist, and fashion boutique.

In-room massages are available for a fee.

Parking is available at the hotel for a fee of 1,500 yen per night.

There is a Toyota Rent-A-Car office in the B1 basement level of the hotel.

Location

Keio Plaza Sapporo is a 5-minute walk from JR Sapporo Station. This location is convenient for the Old Hokkaido Government Office, Hokkaido University Campus, and Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens.

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