Authent Hotel Otaru hosts business meetings, banquets, seminars and family celebrations for up to 90 guests in theatre layout, in a hotel five minutes on foot from JR Otaru Station. It stands in the Inaho district of central Otaru, a port city in Hokkaido, Japan, about 35 minutes by train from Sapporo.
Seminars and company events
The Authent Room on the second floor is the main space for meetings and conferences. Used whole, it seats 90 in theatre style, 60 in classroom style or 30 around a meeting table. It divides into two rooms, A and B, so a team can hold a plenary and a breakout on the same floor. The hotel also uses it for business dinners and parties. Banquet, restaurant and bar guests receive four hours of free parking at nearby public lots, which helps for local participants who drive in for the day.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel's site does not present wedding packages. It does list the Authent Room and its private dining rooms for family occasions customary in Japan: memorial gatherings, longevity birthdays, the first formal meeting between two families before a marriage, and a baby's first meal ceremony.
Rooms and capacities
The full Authent Room covers 130 square meters and takes 60 guests standing or 64 at round tables. Room A covers 52 square meters for 20 standing, 24 at round tables, 18 in classroom style or a meeting for 10. Room B covers 78 square meters for 30 standing, 32 at round tables or 30 in classroom style. For small groups, the Ushio room at the Japanese restaurant Irifune on the third floor is a sunken-table tatami room for five to eight people, and Restaurant Casablanca on the 11th floor has a private room from four guests.
Accommodation
Guest rooms are on floors 3 to 10. Types range from doubles of 18 square meters to twins, triples, Japanese-style rooms and barrier-free rooms, up to the Royal Suite of 75 square meters. The Salon Class floors, 9 and 10, have their own guest lounge. The site does not give a total room count.
Catering
The hotel runs its own restaurants and bars: Restaurant Casablanca, the Japanese restaurant Irifune, the teppanyaki restaurant Kaiou, the Captain's Bar, the Polestar lounge on the top floor, the Ondine lobby lounge and a bakery. Banquet menus come from the hotel's own kitchens.
History and setting
Otaru grew as a trading port, and its canal district and stone warehouses lie within walking distance of the hotel, which gives visiting teams an easy evening outing. Some Deluxe Twin rooms on the upper floors are sold with an ocean view.
Getting there
JR Otaru Station is about a five-minute walk. From New Chitose Airport, the Rapid Airport train reaches Otaru in about 75 minutes, and an airport bus stops at the hotel entrance in about 90 minutes. Sapporo Station is about 35 minutes by train, or about 30 minutes by car on the expressway. The hotel has 20 parking spaces for overnight guests, first come, first served.
