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See why so many travellers make Sotetsu Fresa Inn Kamakura Ofuna their hotel of choice when visiting Kamakura. Providing an ideal mix of value, comfort and convenience, it offers a budget friendly setting with an array of amenities designed for travellers like you.
While staying at Sotetsu Fresa Inn Kamakura Ofuna, visitors can check out Engaku-ji Temple (1.4 mi) and Tokeiji Temple (1.5 mi), some of Kamakura's top attractions.
You’ll enjoy relaxing rooms that offer a flat screen TV, a refrigerator, and air conditioning, and you can stay connected during your stay as Sotetsu Fresa Inn Kamakura Ofuna offers guests free wifi.
The hotel features 24 hour front desk, baggage storage, and a coffee shop.
During your visit, be sure to check out one of Kamakura's popular okonomiyaki & takoyaki restaurants such as Bochibochi Ofuna station front and Sometaro, all a short distance from Sotetsu Fresa Inn Kamakura Ofuna.
There is no shortage of things to do in the area: explore popular parks such as Kamakura Seaside Park Yuigahama Area, Genjiyama Park, and Kamakura Chuo Park.
At Sotetsu Fresa Inn Kamakura Ofuna, your comfort and satisfaction come first, and they look forward to welcoming you to Kamakura.
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Great location, close to station. Restaurants and major shopping centers nearby.
The hotel provides luggage storage before check-in. The staff even put our luggage in our room. Luggage storage service is also provided after check-out.
Staff are nice.
Room was clean with all the basic amenities. Room size was okay for us (as expected so no complaints).
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Date of stay: September 2023
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We stayed at Fresa Inn for 5 nights while visiting my uncle who is a missionary priest in town. On the first morning, we woke to head downstairs for breakfast (part of the package). The fellow who cleans the rooms saw that we were larger than the pajamas he had set out for us and motioned to us that he had larger size available. We took the elevator down to the lobby and before we could head through the door into the restaurant, he appeared with two pairs of large and long pajamas to show us. The staff all smiled and said something to us in Japanese. We don't speak Japanese, except for 'domo arigato' and 'hai', perhaps the first Japanese you'll want to become familiar with.
Breakfast is in the restaurant that adjoins the hotel. We're across from the train station, near a large shopping mall with a huge electronics store. The hotel is a short walk from the Ofuna Kannon, the mercy Buddha. You can see the buddha from the rooms, but take the walk and immerse yourself in the culture it represents.
Alongside the train station is a shopping mall with restaurants on the 7th floor and a take out food mart on the second floor. The take out mart swarms with locals and offers a wide variety of food at reasonable prices (the dollar is strong now. worth about 115 yen).
Ofuna is at the terminus of the Narita express train, a short monorail ride from Enoshima with its beaches and temples, a 90 minute train ride to Tokyo, a 30 minute train ride to the Shinkansen bullet train that takes you to Kyoto and Osaka.
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Date of stay: January 2016
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You get a lot for your money at the Sotetsu Fresa Inn - Ofuna. Take a left from the front of the Ofuna station when facing the Mcdonald's and it's a 3 minute walk.
Smallish room by western standards, but super clean, comfortable bed, desk, flatscreen TV, bath with all the essentials, slippers, pajamas, pants press, free tea service and computers in the lobby, plus laundry machines at a minimal charge if you need to do a load of wash. You can catch the Narita Express direct to the airport, so it's a great option for avoiding Tokyo hotel prices especially on your departing nights.
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Date of stay: May 2016Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Having traveled throughout Japan in the summer of 2015, my family of 4 stayed in various hotels ranging from very pricey 5 star ratings to 3.5 stars. As with most hotel rooms in Asia, even a quote quadruple room can be relatively small and always expensive. We booked at the Sotetsu Fresa Inn in Kamakura 2 double rooms since they had no quadruples. The rooms were side by side. What a pleasant surprise it was as by the time we left, we felt we received full value for our money. It was modestly priced but the rooms although very small, were very clean and functional and the staff very friendly and helpful. I believe the Fresa Inns are a chain across Japan so if we were to ever travel around Japan again, I would not hesitate to stay at this chain if the Kamakura location was indicative of the value and level of service the whole chain provides.
We were there for 4 days. There is plenty of shopping and restaurants in the neighbourhood. A 7-11 directly downstairs and another convenience store across the street for convenience. Also, the hotel was only 5 minutes walking from the local train station.
As for our rooms, again, they are tiny by North American standards. The hotel is well maintained and everything worked. Most importantly, as my son has various allergies, the rooms and lobby were very clean and well maintained by the staff. They also provide a nice small selection of tea bags in the lobby. Again, for all the high prices we paid for hotels in Japan this past summer, the Sotetsu Fresa stands out as great value.
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Date of stay: July 2015
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Room Tip:As the location is in a busy neighbourhood with a lot of foot and car traffic, choose a room on a...
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Nice Clean Simple Hotel location Great. Though the pajama/yukata are always a bit too small. Easy to walk to from the station and lots of eateries around the corner. There was a brilliant tonkatsu joint just down the road.
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Date of stay: January 2016Trip type: Travelled solo
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Sotetsu Fresa Inn has a great location to go expore Kamakura from. Ofuna is an easy train station to explore from and go back out from (useful if you leave your luggage in the hotel while you go out). The hotel is a 3mn walk from the north train station exit, and there are countless food sources and other entertainment on the stree on the way there.
Bed: it was a bit hard, and one side of the double bed touches the wall.
Breakfast: you get a voucher to the nearby café that will give you one out of 6 choices. Not stellar, not a buffer, but it still got us fed.
AC: it was a bit slow to start, but worked and as always, the controls in the room are in Japanese
Room: with two people, you'll fit but you'll bump into one another. It's a bit tight.
Noise: quiet
Location: Great base to go explore the Kamakura area, very close to train station
Internet: Wired internet in the room (no wireless).
English: staff spoke basic english and was able to help us
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Date of stay: May 2013
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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We arrived in Japan for cherry blossom season and a lot of the Japanese are also touring around, so rooms fill up everywhere earlier than usual. We chose this hotel because it's at the terminus of one of the NEX - Narita Express - trains and a short walk from the station. We wanted to go to Kamakura to sightsee, and it's a 10 minute JR train to its first station as well. So: location, location location.
As you can see, the room was tiny, took planning with my husband to move around, plus there's a lot of other misc stuff in the way: pants press, air cleaner, luggage rack. Check out how efficient the hot water kettle is - it's tucked into the end of the desk. Watch out for the chair, though - its rolling base sticks out and it's a constant tripping hazard.
The continental breakfast consisted of a cup of coffee and 1 of 6 choices of basically white bread and something - the heated ham & cheese one was marginally the best, but really these are more of a snack. So if you expect an actual breakfast of any sort, you won't find it here.
Still, at approx. $110/night, it's a bargain. Clean and quiet. I think we started to learn here that sometimes it's best to request two twin beds rather than a double - the rooms are bigger to accommodate them. I can't say for sure if that's the case in this hotel, but it's worth pursuing.
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Date of stay: April 2016
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We booked this hotel directly through their website looking for a close, reasonable option (10'000 yen a night) and close to a station for sightseeing in Kamakura. After looking at several options in the area that were more pricey, too far away and a long haul from a station, we were not disappointed with our choice. They allowed us to check our bags early and they were in our room when we eventually checked in later that afternoon. They met our request for a room on a high floor - room 1004 was a corner room on the top of the hotel with two windows - excellent. The location is perfect - there's a LOT happening around the station and we enjoyed izakayas, yakiniku and yakitori within spitting distance of our room. There are 100 yen shops and fish markets nearby too. With all the action, noise was non-existent...excellent.
Possible cons-you won't like this place if you're looking for a ryokan type of experience, this is far from it. The rooms are geared towards individual business travelers and their size is representative of this. The rooms are well equipped but very small and there are no other facilities to note other than free slow internet, a microwave, an English newspaper, some vending machines and tea in the lobby.
The worst part of our stay was a stench in the bathroom what could not readily be explained, my thorough investigation lead me to believe that there is stagnant water somewhere...some of the nooks and crannies in the room needed dusting/vacuuming/cleaning.
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Date of stay: November 2011
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip:Room 1004 is on the top corner with two windows and a sweeping view
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We stayed here for 1 night only..but we wish we could have stayed longer.The hotel is located right in front of Ofuna train station with acces to all of Japan.The hotel staff are extremely helpful and courteous..The room we had was small but very cozy with plenty of sunlight and a view of Ofuna town.Non smoking rooms available.Ladies receive a small welcome bag on arrival.The room was fully equipped ...kimonos, slippers, fridge, tea coffee facilities,tv. and a huge balcony with a table and chairs to enjoy our tea.There is a coffee shop next to the hotel where we had our best coffee in Japan. Supermarket across the street plus lots of good restaurants and shops nearby.Very close to Kamakura and 40 minutes from Tokyo.Ofuna itself is a small but friendly town.The staff at the JR train station are very helpfull, and there is a direct train to Narita airport from Ofuna. Next time we visit Japan we will stay here instead of downtown Tokyo.
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Date of stay: May 2011
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Just across the train station. We chose to stay here because of its convenient location. Rooms were not too small in Japanese standard. They have microwaves in the lift lobby.
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Date of stay: September 2010
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There are more places to choose from in the Kamakura area.
PRICE RANGE
RM 231 - RM 368 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
LOCATION
JapanKantoKanagawa PrefectureKamakura
NUMBER OF ROOMS
100
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