Day four in Chatan: a cat cafe we backed out of, goats on the way and four cats on a seawall path, the Aeon souvenir shelf, and a lounge so full strangers sat at the next table.
The last cocktail time of five was the Hakata one — gameni, pork kakuni, mizutaki, cold Goto udon — and five nights produced five different sets. Plus what the rock bath sign says. August 2026.
We walked past the new space behind the fifth-floor Chinese restaurant: partitions, nothing visible inside. Plus night four in the lounge, and a shumai that changed between breakfast and evening.
Breakfast Today's Plate was Egg Royale, the soy sauce turned out to be vinegared, and at cocktail time we were told the lounge might go to one hour per party. August 2026.
The gym is on the fifth floor with a full set of weight machines. On night two the Executive Lounge swapped all four hot dishes for Western ones: saffron soup, ratatouille, spare ribs, fritter.
Free with lounge access: more than twelve vegetables at the salad bar, Saikyo-miso salmon and shio-koji mackerel, and a black-soybean natto called Kurosengoku. August 2026.
Cocktail time opens at 17:00 with four hot dishes, six wines and a Fukuoka sake. Plus what the 23rd-floor Panoramic Suite is actually like: old fittings, few sockets, glass on two sides. August 2026.
Day five of five: breakfast after we overslept, a cat cafe we had given up on the day before, forty minutes on a treadmill, and why we spend a hotel credit down to the last yen.
Cocktail time ran 17:00 to 19:00 on our February 2026 stay and was short on salty food, so we bought dinner at the deli downstairs and carried it up to the lounge. What the ¥5,000 credit bought.
In April 2026 the egg station, the soft serve and the Ainu fish soup were gone, and the ikura bowl had to be requested. Two months later it had changed again — here is what is on it.
Three bowls of rice each on morning one, a separate-bowl fix on morning two, and two seafood izakaya nights that ended with us ordering everything grilled.
Orion on tap, a food lineup that repeats every other day, and the karaage that ran out on night three. What the ninth-floor lounge actually puts out, and who it is worth booking for.
