This hotel is on the 'quiet' side of the train station...but still within walking distance of the market, etc. The room was quite big for a Japanese hotel...bed was great...bathroom was decent size. Really a good value.

There are some bizarre things: like the lobby is filled with these weird, gray machines...couldn't figure out if they were for paying hotel bill...or collecting pay-tv vouchers... Also the elevator says (in English) that vending machines are on floor 2.8...they mean floors 2 and 8...so don't pull the emergency stop between floors 2&3... My only real gripe is (like many Japanese hotels these days, it seems) they give you pajamas instead of yukata (robe) which I don't like as much and as a big foreigner, never quite fits me...

But I'd highly recommend staying here.

This hotel is very well located as it is adjacent to Kanazawa Station, a tourism information office, the bus info centre, the bus terminal and the Forus shopping centre. Access to the city's many sights is easy whether by foot or the tourist loop bus.

This hotel offered one of the biggest rooms I have stayed in Japan. By Japanese standards, the room was enormous for the price. The room was comfortable and very clean. After staying in a typical tiny Tokyo hotel room, it was wonderful to stay in such a large room with a huge, great bed!

Wired Internet access in room was speedy and useful for planning the day's activities. There is also a good sized television with cable though channels were mostly in Japanese.

Coin laundry on-site was very convenient and reasonable. Also, as with most Japanese hotels, there are numerous vending machines for late night drink and snack needs.

We did not try the hotel's breakfast but the price was reasonable given the amount of food on offer. I have seen similar breakfasts offered at much higher that 800 Yen. That said, we went to the train station restaurant area for breakfast where there are both Japanese and Western options for all tastes. For a quick bite of freshly baked goodies, we especially liked the German Bakery, which appears to have little connection to German cuisine. There are many restaurants both in the shopping and dining area attached to the train station as well in the Forus shopping mall. Check out the kaiten (conveyor belt) sushi on the dining level of Forus as well as mochi cream on the first floor for sweets!

Front desk staff were helpful and polite. As I do not speak Japanese, I was grateful for the staff's ability to communicate in English when we had questions about our bus reservations to Shirakawa-go.

We really enjoyed our stay at the Daiwa Roynet Hotel Kanazawa and would recommend it wholeheartedly for travellers looking for a quality hotel stay in a convenient location at a very reasonable price.

We booked a room here for ourselves and our one year old, and were pleasantly surprised. The hotel kindly matched the price on Rakuten - as I could only book 2 nights on Rakuten, instead of three nights.
The hotel is very simple and clean. It's not a bells and whistles hotel. So if you are looking for some luxury, don't book here. It's literally 1 minute from the train station, mostly undercover - so convenient, as on the day we left it was raining. We had a standard room (A), and the cot fitted in quite easily, albeit a bit squashy, which is standard in Japan. The bathroom was one of those moulded plastic types, but was on the larger side.
Breakfast was mainly a Japanese affair, but if you can’t stomach it, there are plenty of western options nearby and in the station.
The loop bus is a good idea, except, we had a pram – which needed to be folded each time we boarded, as it gets very busy. We were debating whether or not to travel to Kanazawa, as we had already been to Takayama, but I would highly recommend both for their small town charm.

This hotel is very new, and the rooms -- even the standard singles -- are a decent size. By Japanese standards they are huge. Room has small LCD TV and free LAN connection. The bed is comfortable and the pillow is less hard than in many Japanese hotels. The location is also great. It's about a 2 minute walk from Kanazawa station and if you take the tourist buses, the stop is right in front of the station. There is a huge, new shopping mall next door with a Starbucks and also lots of shopping in the train station also -- a lot of good souvenir options, too.