The JR Hotel Clement is the best hotel in downtown Takamatsu and the favorable dollar-to-yen exchange rate made its price in dollars very affordable to my son and me. We have stayed in this hotel previously, visiting my wife's relatives in Takamatsu. On this recent visit to Japan in December and January 2023 I had booked separate rooms for my son and me, for five nights over the New Year and then again for five more nights after we toured northern Japan for six days. On our return stay we learned that the hotel had now installed a small coin laundry on the fifth floor. The absence of a coin laundry had been the only previous drawback to staying at the Clement, since no public coin laundries are available near the hotel. In our trip to northern Japan coin laundries had been available at each hotel, which is a significant benefit for travelers. The Clement has always offered laundry and cleaning services, priced by individual clothing items, but the prices for those services are far higher than the cost of the machines in the new coin laundry. Only two machines are in the Clement's new coin laundry, which is a small number of machines for a hotel of that size. But they are a welcome improvement to this already excellent hotel.