According to the event outline published by the Japan Skating Federation on September 17, 2026, the 95th All Japan Figure Skating Championships will be held over four days, from Thursday, December 24 to Sunday, December 27, 2026, at Towa Pharmaceutical RACTAB Dome (東和薬品RACTABドーム) in Kadoma, Osaka. Within a 3km radius of the venue there are 10 operating hotels with 1,237 rooms, and nearly half of those rooms are concentrated in three ~200-room hotels in front of Kadomashi Station on the Keihan Line and Osaka Monorail. Lining up December listed rates by night, as observed by MetroEngines Research in early November, the in-radius median for Saturday, December 26 — a competition day — was ¥17,100, well below the 1km radius around Kyobashi on the same Keihan Line (¥25,300) and the 1km radius around Umeda (¥43,500). Starting from the officially confirmed schedule, this article looks in turn at room stock within 3km of the venue, the rate gap versus central Osaka, the shape of demand overlapping the Christmas weekend, and the opportunities open to suburban hotels near the venue.

Room stock in this article covers lodging facilities with 10 or more rooms (excluding leisure/love hotels) within a 3,000m radius of Towa Pharmaceutical RACTAB Dome. “Operating” means a property whose selling rates were confirmed on major booking sites in the most recent three months (September–November 2026), as of November 4, 2026 (MetroEngines Research tabulation). Daily listed rates are the area median of each property’s daily average across all plans for two adults in one room (tax-included); 2026 figures are a listing snapshot as of early November.

Event Schedule — Four Days, Thursday, December 24 to Sunday, December 27, Including the Official Practice Day

First, it is worth pinning down the schedule from primary sources. Ticketing sites listed “December 25–27” and travel sites “December 25–28,” but the dates in the Japan Skating Federation’s event outline (September 17, 2026) are Thursday, December 24 to Sunday, December 27, 2026: the 24th is official practice and the opening ceremony, and the 25th through the 27th are competition days. The venue is Towa Pharmaceutical RACTAB Dome (3-7-16 Mitsushima, Kadoma, Osaka), and the four disciplines — men’s singles, women’s singles, pairs and ice dance — double as the final selection event for the ISU World Championships 2027, the Four Continents Championships 2027 and the World Junior Championships 2027.

Source: Prepared by HotelBank Editorial Team from Japan Skating Federation, “95th All Japan Figure Skating Championships — Event Outline” (September 17, 2026). Event schedules are subject to change

What matters for lodging demand is that competition ends late — around 21:00 — on all three days, and that admission tickets are valid for all three days (from ¥20,000 for Arena SS seats to ¥6,000 for Stand A seats, tax-included). Day trips are not realistic for spectators from further afield, so the standard itineraries will be a three-night stay checking in on the 24th or 25th and staying through the 27th, or a two-night stay focused on the women’s and men’s free skates on Saturday and Sunday. General (first-come) ticket sales open at 10:00 on Saturday, November 7, and it is natural to expect booking activity to pick up in earnest around then. All listed rates discussed here reflect levels before general sales opened.

Access to the venue is also worth checking. According to Osaka Prefecture’s official FAQ, the nearest station is Kadoma-minami on the Osaka Metro Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line, right next to the venue, while Kadomashi Station on the Keihan Line and Osaka Monorail is about a 10-minute taxi ride away. The Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line runs via Kyobashi, and the Keihan Main Line also runs directly from Kyobashi to Kadomashi, so the overflow for spectators who cannot find rooms near the venue extends from Kyobashi toward Umeda and Yodoyabashi. This rail structure is the premise for reading the “Kadoma vs Kyobashi / Umeda rate gap” discussed below.

Room Stock Within 3km of the Venue — 10 Operating Hotels, 1,237 Rooms; Three ~200-Room Hotels at Kadomashi Station Hold Half

MetroEngines Research data show 13 listed lodging facilities with 1,381 rooms within a 3km radius of Towa Pharmaceutical RACTAB Dome; of these, 10 properties with 1,237 rooms were operating, with selling rates confirmed in the last three months. They break down into 9 business hotels with 1,222 rooms and one ryokan with 15 rooms; there are no city hotels or resort-type properties in the radius. By size, 5 properties with 101–200 rooms account for 760 rooms and one property with 201+ rooms for 211, so mid-size and larger business hotels make up nearly 80% of room count.

By location, three hotels with 211, 200 and 196 rooms line up in front of Kadomashi Station (Keihan Line / Osaka Monorail), about 1.7km west of the venue, and these three alone account for 49% of operating rooms (607 rooms). All three opened in 2020 or later, and room stock in the radius has roughly doubled over the decade, from 618 rooms in 2017 to 1,222 in 2026. At the time of the 93rd Championships in 2024 there were 1,022 rooms, so 200 rooms were added net between the previous Kadoma edition and this one — capacity has grown by about 20% in two years.

Source: Prepared by HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (within 3km of the venue, 10+ rooms, properties with a confirmed opening year. One 15-room property without a confirmed opening year is excluded from the annual series)

Source: Prepared by HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (10 operating properties as of November 4, 2026, sorted by room count)

Source: Prepared by HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (circle size = room count; dashed line = 3km radius from the venue)

On the map, lodging is skewed to the west of the venue: there are no rooms around Kadoma-minami, the venue’s nearest station, and to the east toward Neyagawa there are only two properties with 163 rooms, about 3km from the venue. Most spectators will stay at business hotels in front of Kadomashi Station and travel to the venue by Keihan, monorail or taxi. All three station-front hotels opened in 2020 or later, and Hotel Ains has a large public bath and sauna, so the groundwork is in place to absorb three-night spectator demand. For comparison over the same year-end period in eastern Osaka Prefecture, our separate analysis inventoried 996 rooms within 5km in Higashiosaka ahead of the National High School Rugby Tournament (Hanazono), which opens December 27 — a useful reference for how suburban stock in the east of the prefecture absorbs year-end sports demand.

December Daily Listed Rates — Kadoma +9–24% on Competition Days, While Kyobashi and Umeda Move First on Christmas

So how are rates moving on event nights? The chart below shows, for the 9 properties within 3km of the venue with observable December rates, the median listed rate (average across all plans) for each night from December 4 to 31, overlaid with the Kyobashi Station 1km radius on the same Keihan Line (7 operating business and city hotels) and the Osaka Station (Umeda) 1km radius (28 properties, top by room count).

Source: Prepared by HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (listed rates as of early November 2026, two adults per room, tax-included, property median for each area. Kadoma 3km N=9, Kyobashi 1km N=7, Osaka Station 1km N=28)

Against an early-December pattern of ¥11,700–12,900 on weekdays and ¥15,600–15,700 on Saturdays, the Kadoma 3km median came in at ¥13,100 on Thursday, December 24, the official practice day (+5.0% vs the average of the previous three Thursdays), ¥15,300 on Friday, December 25 (+18.8% vs Fridays), ¥17,100 on Saturday, December 26 (+9.3% vs Saturdays) and ¥15,000 on Sunday, December 27 (+23.8% vs Sundays). Sunday — normally the cheapest night of the week — rising close to Saturday levels reflects demand specific to this event: the men’s free skate ends around 21:00, so a Sunday-night stay becomes necessary.

Source: Prepared by HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (median listed rates as of early November 2026, two adults per room, tax-included. Figures in parentheses are changes vs the same-weekday average over the three weeks before the event (December 4–20; for Thursdays, December 10 and 17). “Closed for sale” is the number of properties that had stopped accepting bookings on all plans at the time of observation; sales may reopen afterward)

Kyobashi, by contrast, moves in a completely different way. Its median on Friday, December 25 was ¥23,000, +52.9% versus the Friday average, and on Saturday the 26th it was ¥25,300 — with all 7 properties already closed for sale on every plan at the time of observation in early November. On Sunday the 27th, 5 properties were also closed for sale, with a median of ¥20,000 (+29.1% vs Sundays), so inventory for all three weekend nights has almost disappeared from view. The Osaka Station 1km radius also rose, to ¥33,900 on the 25th (+16.4%) and ¥35,800 on the 27th (+32.6%), stayed high at around ¥34,000–35,800 from the 28th to the 30th, and climbs to ¥47,600 on the 31st.

What this suggests is that rate movements in central Osaka on December 25–27 are being set first by the overlap of Christmas and year-end, rather than by the championships. Kyobashi is dominated by business hotels and its total room count is limited, at around 1,600 rooms, so Christmas-weekend demand alone thins out inventory early. Once spectator demand is layered on top, the Kadoma 3km area — close to the venue and lower-priced — emerges as the most rational choice for spectators. Comparing Saturday the 26th medians, Kadoma sits at just 68% of Kyobashi and 39% of Umeda; there is this much of a rate gap across short distances linked by rail. Our analysis of Christmas 2026 lodging rates, which tracked nightly rates in Tokyo over the same December 24–27, also observed a +29.5% premium over normal Fridays — the pattern of the Christmas weekend pushing up central-city rates first is not unique to Osaka.

Comparison with the Previous Kadoma Edition (2024, 93rd) — Competition-Day Premium Widens from +4–5%

The 93rd Championships two years ago were held at the same venue with the same weekday layout: official practice on Thursday, December 19, 2024, and competition from Friday the 20th to Sunday the 22nd. The next chart aligns the 8 properties whose rates could be observed in both 2024 and 2026, and compares the median listed rate on each of the four event days with the same-weekday average for the first half of December (December 5–17 in 2024, December 4–17 in 2026). Note the difference in basis: 2024 figures are the final listed rates observed up to each stay date, while 2026 figures are a snapshot as of early November, which should be taken into account when reading the comparison.

Source: Prepared by HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (median listed rates for the same 8 properties observable in both years; change vs the same-weekday average for the first half of December. 2024 = final observation up to the stay date; 2026 = listed rates as of early November)

In 2024, the premium on the three competition days was modest — Friday +5.1%, Saturday +5.2%, Sunday +4.3% — and Thursday, the official practice day, was below normal at −4.3%. On a monthly basis too, Kadoma’s estimated settled ADR was ¥8,200 in November 2024 and ¥7,900 in December, lower in the event month, so the event’s effect is not visible at the monthly level. In the previous edition, business hotels near the venue can be said to have met spectator demand at essentially normal rates.

In contrast, 2026 listed rates show +15.1% on Thursday (official practice day), +12.5% on Friday, +3.7% on Saturday and +10.9% on Sunday — premiums above the previous edition on every day except Saturday, already priced in before general ticket sales. Beyond the calendar difference of falling right before Christmas, the gap can be read as a sign that properties have factored the event dates into their rate calendars in advance, based on demand experience from two years ago. That Saturday’s premium stays similar to last time is likely because Saturday is already the most expensive night of the week, leaving less headroom than weekdays or Sunday.

Monthly Estimated Settled ADR — Kadoma at 60% of Osaka’s Kita Ward and 80% of Miyakojima Ward

We also check the daily listed-rate gaps against a more stable metric, monthly estimated settled ADR (area median). Kadoma has only 6–7 properties in scope, so the figures should be read with some latitude, but in December 2025 Kadoma stood at ¥7,200 — about 80% of Miyakojima Ward (¥8,900), about 60% of Kita Ward (¥12,100) and about 50% of Chuo Ward (¥13,700). Even against Osaka Prefecture overall (¥11,100) it is just over 60%, making Kadoma one of the most affordable business-hotel clusters in the prefecture.

Source: Prepared by HotelBank Editorial Team from MetroEngines Research (estimated settled ADR, area median, tax-excluded equivalent. December 2026 is an estimate based on listed levels as of early November and will change)

December 2025 year-over-year changes diverged between central Osaka and the suburban/inner-ring areas: Kita Ward +12.5%, Chuo Ward +8.7% and Osaka Prefecture +10.0%, versus −8.2% for Kadoma and −3.3% for Miyakojima Ward. 2025 was the period after Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai closed, and it can be read as a year in which central-city rates kept climbing while suburban business-hotel clusters held prices down. The December 2026 listing snapshot shows Kadoma at ¥8,500 and Miyakojima Ward at ¥10,500, both above the finalized figures for the previous December, but these are estimates based on current listings and will move as stay dates approach. The event’s effect cannot be determined from monthly data, and the appropriate reading is to supplement it with the daily observations in the preceding sections. For background on how new supply and estimated settled ADR landed across Osaka City in the year after the Expo, see our analysis of 53 properties and 3,566 rooms opening in 2026.

Booking Pace Is Still Ahead — Stay Dates Enter the Observation Window from November 10

This article does not cover booking progress (remaining-inventory trends or estimated OCC), for two reasons. First, in a small city like Kadoma the number of properties covered by booking-curve tabulation does not meet the threshold, so we do not calculate city-level estimated OCC. Second, at the time of writing (November 3), the December 25–27 stay dates were 52–54 days from check-in, and had not yet entered the observation window in which booking progress can be read (within 45 days of the stay date). Observations earlier than 45 days out include periods before properties have finished loading their sales allocations, so they do not necessarily reflect how bookings are progressing.

The December 25 stay date enters the 45-day window on November 10, just after general ticket sales open (November 7). How quickly event lodging demand actually fills up will therefore become visible from mid-November onward, at the level of Osaka Prefecture or individual Osaka City wards. As shown in our separate article on year-end and New Year booking pace, bookings at urban hotels really happen in the final 45 days, and the listed rates in this article are best read as a preliminary indicator of “how each property is anticipating demand.”

Implications for Operators — Opportunities for Suburban Hotels Near the Venue

Putting this together, three opportunities emerge for hotels within 3km of the venue. The first is capturing multi-night demand. Three-day admission tickets and competition ending around 21:00 every day make a three-night stay from the 24th or 25th through the 27th the standard itinerary. Night by night, the Sunday premium in the Kadoma 3km area (+23.8%) exceeds Saturday’s (+9.3%), so during event week multi-night stays that include the normally soft Sunday night tend to fill regardless of weekday or weekend. Plan design built around two- and three-night stays has room to stabilize sales more than stacking up rates night by night.

The second is positioning premised on the rate gap with central Osaka. On Saturday the 26th, Kadoma’s median is just 68% of Kyobashi and 39% of Umeda, and most of Kyobashi’s weekend inventory was already closed for sale at the time of observation in early November. The flow of spectators who cannot secure rooms in the center choosing Kadoma — close to the venue via the Keihan and Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi lines — strengthens as the rate gap widens. Given that the premium at the 2024 edition was +4–5%, this year’s +9–24% already prices in expected demand; combining it with staged rate adjustments should create further revenue opportunities.

The third is guidance on getting to the venue. From the Kadomashi Station area the venue is about 10 minutes by taxi, and the nearest station is Kadoma-minami on the Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line; providing guests with advance information on transfers and late-night return trips is useful. The advantage of being near the venue lies less in distance itself than in the reassurance of “being able to get back to the hotel reliably after competition ends past 21:00,” and mentioning this in plan names and room information can help tip the choice of spectator guests.

From the spectator’s side, the decision is equally clear. The median within 3km of the venue is ¥15,000–17,100 even on competition days, ¥5,000–26,000 lower than Kyobashi and Umeda. Booking progress will become visible in mid-November, when the December 25 stay date enters the 45-day window after general ticket sales, so for a three-night itinerary it makes sense to secure accommodation around the same time general sales open.

Summary

The 95th All Japan Figure Skating Championships will be held from Thursday, December 24 to Sunday, December 27, 2026, at Towa Pharmaceutical RACTAB Dome in Kadoma. Within 3km of the venue there are 10 operating hotels with 1,237 rooms, of which three ~200-room hotels in front of Kadomashi Station account for 607. Based on listed rates as of early November, the Kadoma 3km median on competition days is ¥15,000–17,100, with premiums of +9–24% over the same weekday already priced in before general ticket sales, while most of Kyobashi’s 1km-radius inventory for the three weekend nights was closed for sale and the Umeda 1km radius, at ¥33,900–43,500, had already moved on Christmas demand. Given that the competition-day premium at the previous 2024 Kadoma edition was only +4–5%, hotels near the venue this time have priced in spectator demand in advance, and multi-night plans and positioning that leverages the rate gap with the center are the opportunities. Booking pace will become visible from November 10, when the December 25 stay date enters the 45-day window.

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