3 star Independent hotels in Okinawa, Japan

As long as you are looking for a no-frills hotel you will find a great experience at Crown. Friendly staff, clean rooms. The rooms are large by Japanize standards with American size beds. Walking distance to Gate 2. Choice of traditional Japanize or American breakfasts.

One business in the neighborhood seemed a bit questionable and the hotel plain, but the Japanese style room with en suite bathroom (a nice alternative to having to use the sento) and the staff were lovely. We enjoyed our time in Naha, especially our interactions with the staff and other guests of our hotel. They were helpful and friendly, giving us good guidance for finding excellent local restaurants, a nearby grocery, and directions to the Marine base. Parking was convenient, being just across the quiet street. Breakfast was simple toast and jam with tea or coffee, but given the price of the room we didn't expect food at all, and the neighborhood grocery provided excellent supplemental drinks, fruit, and snacks that weren't available in the hotel lobby selection.

I enjoyed every minute spent at the impeccable Solvita. A well-built, modern hotel, small enough to look carefully at all her guests, but big enough to offer the right sort of amenities, the Solvita, with its easy to remember name by westerners, and well recognized name by Japanese and local taxi drivers, has been noted with appreciation by me, as well as by many others, I am sure.

The hotel is in an excellent location about half a block back from the Sunabe Seawall and within walking distance of many good restaurants and scuba diving shops. The hotel restaurant, the Hakulea, was very good with ocean views and sunsets that match the hotels brochure. The portions were designed for the Japanese appetite, not an American one, so they were a bit on the small side, which I found at most of the restaurants. The included breakfast was Japanese style with things like miso soup, fish, various vegetables, eggs, spam. There was also toast and fruit salad. The hotel staff was very friendly and helpful, although a few of them did not speak much English. The room was reasonably nice with a tiled rather than carpeted floor, large beds with very soft mattresses, large soft pillows, desk, sitting area, large closet, safe, and kitchenette. I felt the LAN internet connection was kind of slow, but at least was included in the price. The TV was small, about 22”, and only got about 5 Japanese stations. It would have been nice for a hotel at that price in a resort area to have satellite TV that got stations like CNN international. As is the Japanese custom, when you enter the room, you are expected to take your shoes off and wear the provided slippers. The AC controls were somewhat difficult to figure out as the translated instructions with pictures did not match the controller in my room. The hotel also has a scuba diving shop, although none of the staff speak much English.

Sunplaza Hotel is just a few minutes from the main strip of Naha and an easy bus trip from the airport. It definitely shows its age, and it's more of a business hotel than something for a swanky weekend getaway, but for solo travels and budget-minded people, it's a solid option for staying in Naha.

Room was tiny. Everything was tiny. If you're american I recommend getting a converter to plug in your electronics cause most won't work in their sockets. I mean just tiny room.

Very dirty hotel. No English speaking. very small room, even no space to do anything. You have to sit down on the bed when you use your laptop. Only 4 chanels on TV, remote control not working. The staff came to fix, but he failed. The room phone only for local. The smell was terrible in the room. I made two local calls only, 1 minute for each. Thay ask me to paid 120 yuen when I chaeked out. The front desk told me 10/min when I check in. I asked them print out the phone call detail, they couldn't. Finally, I paid 20 yuen for the calls. Unbelievanle, they weren't honest. One more thing, this hotel check time is 10am, if you check out late, even one hour, they will charge you 1000yuen/hour. So don't go to this hotel anytime. It's worst. Maybe that's why they don't put any pictures on the web.

I got lucky as there was a nice lady in the back-office who spoke some English. I was so happy, I gifted her with a small package of really nice Tea from Taiwan. I managed with the two-tea-bags in the room but will take my own coffee when I re-visit Japan. I always felt safe in the neighborhood. While the bathroom was a "leetle" cramped, it made up for it with a deep, soaking bath tub and the best Hotel HOT Water Soak & Shower I've enjoyed in a very long time. The bedding was clean and comfortable. Couldn't figure out just how to work the radio, but fortunately had a good book with me. THE BEST PART WAS THE PRICE WHICH DID NOT KEEP ME AWAKE ALL NIGHT. All in all, it was a very pleasant night. I might go back in June, and certainly would ask for the same room. It was good value for the price. When I wanted to leave earlier than the breakfast times, they gladly refunded my pre-paid charge for breakfast and my taxi was waiting to take me to airport. No complaints. john

This is the third hotel I've stayed throughout the trip and it was much smaller than the previous hotels I've stayed in, but it's always kept clean and it's comfortable enough if you're travelling alone. Needless to say, their washroom isn't that big either so if you're on the bigger side, it may not be that comfortable but all is good for me. I was worried about noises at night that might affect my sleep (I'm a crazily light sleeper) but I managed to have good hours of sleep.