Name: Kumoji-so Hostel
Address: 3-23-10 Kumoji, Naha, Naha, Naha, 900-0015, Japan
Rating: 7

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Naminoue Beach

Naha Airport

Kerama Airport

Kumoji-so Hostel

Naha

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I selected a dorm cabin - bigger than a capsule at the normal Japanese capsule hotels, just enough space and well worth the price paid. The bed was outstanding and the location i excellent. highly recommended for  cheap, comfy and very basic stay.

great value for the money

The location is perfect and you can be on the Koussai Street in just 3 minutes by walking. Unfortunately the bathroom is not clean and there is smoking area in the corridor. 

The Kumoji so Hostel is a ideal place to sleep if you are travelling all the day.
The price and performance is ok. The owner Sean is a very friendliy person and therefore we give him an extra point.

Familiy Trip

This hostel is not bad but I wouldn't recommend it for long stays.  was put into a room right at the common area and I couldn't rest at all since I heard every step and even people chewing their dinner. The walls between the rooms are extremely thin too but get used to that in Japan. I can imagine this hostel is a good spot for your first or last night in Okinawa as it's close to the monorail station, there's a shop just around the corner and the main tourist road (Kokusai dori) is just a few hundred yards away. The hostel has a bar which is very nice on a busier night so no need for long strolls if you'e tired. The staff is international and very nice. The facilities are good, it's only the noise that made my stay there not the best.

For you first/last night it can be good

The only night I stayed there, having booked a "single room" that I thought would be like the one photo that they DID show, till I complained to the owner (who has presumably removed it because he doesn't want to face charges of "misrepresentation") it was, IMHO, pretty lousy.  

It was a half-height room so I had to crawl to get into my bed, past a post that held up the upper part, supposedly for storing your clothes -- except it was useless.  Most importantly, IT WASN'T WHAT I HAD BELIEVED I HAD BOOKED AND PAID FOR -- a single room with a bed with NOTHING above, and a small desk, for a total of eight days, in fact.  

Except, I was so disgusted, I checked out the next day.  To his credit, Grant, the American owner, did refund the rest of my money -- but he could hardly refuse.  He said he was going to change my room for me, but I wasn't prepared to risk that I would be just as disappointed in other ways.  So I went elsewhere (a hostel right beside the Maejima Intersection pedestrian overpass to the port) where the room was very nice, just Y3,300, and very cosy.  I later also found another alternative alongside the harbour, called MY PLACE, and that looked very nice too.

In short, IMO Kumoji-so hostel is probably NOT the place to stay -- although I do accept that for some people it might be "okay".  But try other places first.  That is, if you really have to go to Naha and Okinawa -- like you love beaches and snorkeling.  Unfortunately I don't even swim, so for me I found that going to Okinawa (well, just Naha and one of the islands, Tokakishi) was really just a way of wasting time.  Not bad, but nothing I could not have missed, frankly.

Not as I had expected....

Booked 2 nights... stayed 1, which tells you all you need to know.

The whole hostel is one large floor broken up into “rooms” by a series of walls (many without doors).

Ventilation is next non-existent, which is made worse by the “smoking area” which is a bench by the lift which you have to pass every time you want to take the lift or is the one toilet.
The night we stayed there were two locals talking and smoking on the bench all night.

Plugs by my bed kept coming loose, which meant my fan (which I needed given the lack of ventilation) kept turning off.

Seem to be a few locals living there and the place is rather dark and grey.

When left in the morning I stood in sick in the lift.

Only positive is the manager was friendly and it’s close to a monorail stop but I would but recommend you stay here.
We didn’t stay our second night and booked an air bnb. 

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