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Lamp Light Books Hotel

This is one of the best affordable hotel chains in Japan, with its focus on simple pleasures: a reading corner in each room, bookshelves for guests to use peruse, and communal library-cum-work spaces with jazz drifting out of the speaker systems. You’ll even get a few coffee-table or picture books placed around your room, in case you forget to bring reading material. As Cicero once said, “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” This branch is well located between Nagoya Station and Sakae, with good access to bars and restaurants and Nagoya Castle. A café in the lobby that does decent coffee, fruit juices, morning snacks and mini burgers is another plus.