The Granvia South Gate is a new property (as of 2025) located above Hiroshima's main railway station.
If you haven't been to Hiroshima recently, you may not know that it is one of the most vibrant, active, elegant cities anywhere. Constantly thronged with visitors, the station is a bee-hive of coming and going. The entrance to the hotel is a very modest dark glass entryway immediately opposite the streetcar station, which has recently been incorporated into the main station.
The hotel lobby is on the 7th floor, spacious yet always bustling with guests. The check-in is semi-automated, but with sufficient staff to jump in when the inevitable glitches confound guests. I arrived too early to check in, and staff very courteously accommodated me by storing my luggage.
Once my card key was emitted by the registration machine, it also directed the elevator automatically to the proper floor.
The "superior single" room was a bit disappointing. The layout was unusual: toilet room separate and across the hall from the combined washroom and shower-bath room (with full-size tub). There was no closet; just racks with coat hangers along the wall.It was difficult to find space to open my mid-size suitcase. Lights in the hallway and room are on the same circuit. There is no footlight, and no night table beside the bed on which to charge your phone or put a cup of water for the night.
Overall, good...but clearly a step below the standard of other Granvia hotels.