Rakuten Travel

Rakuten Group, Inc.

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About this app

This is an official Android application from Rakuten Travel Inc., the largest hotel booking site in Japan.
The application offers you the same search functions as those on the websites.
Moreover, you can search for hotels on the map by GPS and share the search results with your friends.

* Hotel information is written in Japanese.

Ratings and reviews

Been two years since I last reviewed this app. Went to Japan and was doing a road trip across some prefectures so generally booked hotels at the last minute so wanted to see if this app changed. Sadly it has not. Still the app although has most of the entry fields in English as soon as you click area, all the prefectures and cities are in Japanese. Even if you do know what the Japanese is for the prefectures and areas all the results come up in Japanese with English headings. However going to the rakuten travel website (even on a phone) will have nearly everything in English (and this is what I ended up using) which makes the app a little pointless unless you understand Japanese or want a mix and match of languages.

Just so bad. Every travel option opens as a pop up so if you accidentally press back all your setting will be forgotten. Most importantly it doesn't help that the all and it's pop ups are all so SLOW!