Daiwa Roynet With Kids: Which Rooms Take Three or Four

Daiwa Roynet with kids comes down to which hotel you pick, because the room limits change from building to building. At Daiwa Roynet Hotel Takamatsu the largest room, the Hollywood Twin, takes three guests and there is no four-person room. If you are a family of four, the 55 m² four-bed room at Daiwa Roynet Kyoto Shijo Karasuma is the one to look at, and at Utsunomiya two children of elementary-school age or younger can co-sleep free in a twin room. Check-in starts at 2pm under the chain's terms, and if you will arrive after 10pm you need to tell the hotel, or the booking can be treated as cancelled.

How many people each Daiwa Roynet room takes

Daiwa Roynet publishes room capacity per hotel, and the three hotels covered here list rooms for up to three, three and four guests; Utsunomiya also lets up to two young children co-sleep in its twin rooms. Of the three Daiwa Roynet hotels we checked in October 2026 (Takamatsu, Utsunomiya and Kyoto Shijo Karasuma), only Kyoto lists a room for four; Takamatsu's largest room takes three. All details below come from each hotel's official room pages (checked October 2026).

Two details in that table matter when you book. In Utsunomiya the Deluxe Twin fits a third person with an extra bed, and the official page lists a ¥2,000 extra-bed charge plus a ¥2,000 charge for the additional guest, with notice to the hotel by the previous day (official page, checked October 2026). In Kyoto the Superior Twin (25.3 m²) also takes three with an extra bed, so you do not have to book the four-bed room if you are three.

Baby cots are listed per room type. Takamatsu allows a cot in the Moderate, Twin and Hollywood Twin rooms but not in the Standard, Universal Twin or Ladies rooms. Utsunomiya's Deluxe Twin accepts a cot, but not when three guests are staying. Kyoto allows cots in every room type except the Standard Double. Utsunomiya asks you to request a cot by the day before.

Two families, one weekend in Takamatsu

We stayed at Takamatsu in June 2023 as two families travelling together, one of three people and one of two, in two rooms. I will not describe room layouts or who slept where, because the useful part is the published rule: Takamatsu has no room that holds four.

The hotel's front desk is on the 8th floor of the Marugame-machi Green East Building, and the official access page puts it about 7 minutes on foot from Kawaramachi Station on the Kotoden line and about 18 minutes on foot from JR Takamatsu Station. The official site gives conflicting bus times from JR Takamatsu, so I would walk or check the bus before relying on it. For kids, the hotel hands out child slippers and a toothbrush, and breakfast is a buffet that includes Kagawa udon on the 2nd floor of the same complex.

The Takamatsu pages do not publish a co-sleeping age or fee, so email or call before you book and ask the age limit, how many children can share one bed, and whether a fee or an extra futon is added. For the general question, see our guide to sharing a bed with your child in Japan, and for the neighbourhoods see where to stay in Takamatsu.

The 2pm check-in and the 10pm no-show rule

Under the Daiwa Roynet accommodation terms, rooms can be used from 2pm on the day of arrival until 11am the next morning (Article 9, official terms, checked October 2026). The individual hotel pages do not print check-in times, so this comes from the chain-wide terms; special plans can differ.

The rule that catches late arrivals is Article 6. If you have not contacted the hotel and have not arrived by 10pm on the night of your stay, the hotel may treat the contract as cancelled. If you gave an expected arrival time, the cutoff is two hours after that time. In practice, a flight delay or a long dinner is a reason to make one phone call, not to hope the desk is flexible. For the wider picture of late arrivals, see late-night hotel check-in in Japan.

The standard cancellation charges for groups of up to 14 guests are listed as a percentage of the room charge:

• The day before: 20%
• The day of: 80%
• No-show: 100%

The table also has columns for 9 and 20 days before, which show a dash rather than a percentage (official terms, checked October 2026); our reading of that table comes from the PDF's text layout, so check the table in the terms PDF before counting on a free-cancellation window. Discount and non-refundable plans follow their own terms, shown on the booking screen.

Utsunomiya and Kyoto Shijo Karasuma

Utsunomiya is the hotel to look at if your children are in elementary school or younger. I stayed here in September 2022, two of us, so my visit says nothing about family rooms; the rules below come from the official page. The hotel says children of elementary-school age and younger can co-sleep free, with a limit of one child on a double bed and up to two children in a twin room, one per single bed (official page, checked October 2026). The page does not say what age counts as an adult for room rates. Breakfast runs 6:00 to 10:00 (last order 9:45), and junior-high and high-school students pay the adult price.

The hotel is about 3 minutes on foot from the east exit of JR Utsunomiya Station. Two notes for planning: the hotel finished a renewal in September 2025, and it announced a building-wide power outage on 4 January 2027, so check that date if you are travelling then. See where to stay in Utsunomiya for the area.

Kyoto is the only one of the three with a room for four. The 55 m² room has four beds on a raised platform, according to the hotel, and takes 2 to 4 guests. The official page recommends the Hollywood Twin for families with co-sleeping children but prints no age or fee, so the same advice applies: ask before you book. The hotel reopened after renovation on 14 March 2026. Because of that renovation, the room details here come from the official page. It is about 1 minute on foot from Exit 5 of Shijo Station on the Karasuma subway line, and the exit is near the south ticket gate. If you are choosing among the Kyoto Shijo hotels, read Mitsui Garden vs Daiwa Roynet in Kyoto. If you want to price a Kyoto stay, Daiwa Roynet Hotel Kyoto Shijo Karasuma is where to check availability for four.

None of the three hotel pages I read mentions a large bath or sauna. That means the official pages say nothing, not that the hotels have none, so ask if it matters to your family.

Breakfast and check-in times at a glance

The second table puts the times and child breakfast prices side by side, with the chain-wide check-in and check-out from the accommodation terms (official pages, checked October 2026).

Adult breakfast is ¥1,800 in Takamatsu, ¥1,700 in Utsunomiya and ¥2,200 in Kyoto (ages 13 and over), so a family of four with two children pays differently at each hotel. For other chains' rules, see Tokyu Hotels with kids, Dormy Inn with kids and JR Inn Hokkaido, or the overview in best hotel chains in Japan. The official room pages are on the Daiwa Roynet site for Takamatsu, Utsunomiya and Kyoto Shijo Karasuma, and the terms are in the accommodation terms PDF.

FAQ: Daiwa Roynet with kids

Can a family of four stay in one room at Daiwa Roynet?

At Daiwa Roynet Hotel Kyoto Shijo Karasuma, yes: the 55 m² four-bed room takes 2 to 4 guests (official page, checked October 2026). At Utsunomiya, two adults with two children of elementary-school age or younger can share a twin room, because the hotel allows up to two co-sleeping children, one per single bed, free of charge. At Takamatsu the largest room is listed for 3 and the hotel publishes no co-sleeping rule, so ask the hotel before booking whether children can share a bed, up to what age, how many per bed and for what fee; otherwise plan on two rooms.

What time is check-in at Daiwa Roynet?

Check-in is 2pm and check-out is 11am under the chain's accommodation terms (Article 9, checked October 2026). The individual hotel pages do not print times, and special plans may differ. Outside-hours use is possible for an extra fee, but no fee table is published.

Do children stay free at Daiwa Roynet?

It depends on the hotel. Utsunomiya says children up to elementary-school age co-sleep free, up to 2 in a twin room and 1 on a double bed. Takamatsu and Kyoto do not publish a co-sleeping age or fee, so ask the hotel before booking what age counts, how many children can share one bed, and whether a fee or a futon is added.

What happens if I arrive after 10pm?

If you have not contacted the hotel by 10pm on the night of your stay, or by 2 hours after the arrival time you gave, the hotel may treat the booking as cancelled (Article 6, checked October 2026). A no-show is charged at 100% of the room charge under the standard terms, so call the hotel if you will be late.