Comments on: Tokyo Hotels

By: Jean Snow

Jean Snow — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:02:56 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation, Sarah!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:46:49 +0000

I would totally recommend the Shinagawa Prince Hotel — stayed there in ’07 for 2 weeks. If you want cheap, the rooms in the “old” tower are just over $100 USD a night (we got hooked up w/ free breakfast too). The rooms are really tiny, but it is a huge hotel with lots going on and literally across the street from the Shinagawa train station which is a pretty central hub.

http://www.asiarooms.com/japan/tokyo/shinagawa_prince.html

By: Henrik

Henrik — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:21:49 +0000

I have stayed at Nishi-Shinjuku, a decent hotel situated five minutes from the station on a very quiet side street. I can only recommend it. Nothing fancy, but overall very good. The staff were not very good at English though, but very forthcoming.

http://www.nshotel.com/english/

By: ndkent

ndkent — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 13:54:27 +0000

slightly useful tip –

in response to the book early comment -

yes, you will probably waste a lot of time calling around for a hotel room within the next day or 2 if you are looking at lists of typical 150 or so room hotels.

Certain very large (i.e. 1000 room) kind of cheap (i.e. 10,000 yen) hotels probably never get fully booked. Not places for dream vacations but good to know if you have changes of plans and don’t want to be scrambling finding a place. Examples I’ve stayed at are the Shinjuku Washington and Sunshine City Prince.

By: chad

chad — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:47:22 +0000

grand hyatt tokyo has beautiful rooms and are pretty cheap (for what you get). four seasons suite room is absolutely wonderful but a bit pricey at 70,000 yen a night, but is not really convenient at marunouchi. park hyatt is also totally out of the way, but if you can afford to stay there the price of taxis everywhere wont put you off.

By: Jean Snow

Jean Snow — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:01:34 +0000

That’s right, I forgot about that issue — and issue #3 should be out soon. I wish they would put that content online for reference.

By: MC

MC — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:02:29 +0000

Issue #2 of Wallpaper Navigator includes a Tokyo city profile and it lists some cool hotels like the ubiquitious Claska Hotel, Hotel Okura, Sofitel (Ueno), Four Seasons (Marunochi), Grand Hyatt Tokyo (Roppongi Hills), Hilltop Hotel, Park Hyatt (star of Lost In Translation), and Yoshimizu in GInza.

By: Jean Snow

Jean Snow — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 02:59:31 +0000

And Gridskipper has just put up this post on finding affordable accomodations.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:20:18 +0000

Stayed at the Century Southern Tower in Shinjuku last September.

Just south of Shinjuku station across from Takahashimaya.

Central location. Good views. Good service. Relatively inexpensive.

Internet access in the rooms. Altho I didn’t have a laptop to test it. Starbucks just down the footbridge had free wireless.

Stayed up during the earthquake aftershocks. What more could you ask ?

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:01:50 +0000

park hyatt,??…Feel like Murray…hehe!

By: davido

davido — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:00:43 +0000

We recently looked at many Tokyo hotels for my family (wedding was in November). My brother-in-law is an ‘ad guy’ from Manhattan, and loves a good hotel. We looked at the Claska (location is not terribly convenient, but very cool), the Cerulean Tower (Shibuya/highway location, but cool inside), Agnes Hotel and Apartment (very interesting option, but again location…), and settled on the Park Hotel Tokyo in Shiodome, which was perfect in more ways than we imagined. Shiodome is not for the nature-lover, but it was very cool to have a place where nieces and nephews could run around in wide-open spaces (both the complex and the connecting Hamarikyu Gardens). The hotel itself is part of the “design hotels” group (only one in Tokyo). http://www.parkhoteltokyo.com >> http://www.designhotels.com

By: Jean Snow

Jean Snow — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 01:53:01 +0000

Oh, I’d totally forgotten about that Superfuture page. Good one. And Shaun, good tip.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:15:16 +0000

Ya, it’s kind of an odd thing…. when I lived in Amsterdam, people would ask me to recommend a hotel to them… and I had no idea.

As for Tokyo, all I can say is *book early*! I tried to do a day-before type booking last April and ended up calling and calling and CALLING for like 45 minutes until I could find a place.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:12:51 +0000

I always stay at one of the Villa Fontaine hotels. Cheap (8000-1000 yen/night), free wireless LAN and conveniently located. Some of the hotel even have free massage chairs!

http://www.villa-fontaine.co.jp/eng/

Another chain that offers a similar product is Tokyu Stay:

http://www.tokyustay.co.jp/e/index_flash.html

Both of these chains offer online booking in English for overseas visitors too.

I always stay at one of the Villa Fontaine hotels. Cheap (8000-1000 yen/night), free wireless LAN and conveniently located. Some of the hotel even have free massage chairs!

http://www.villa-fontaine.co.jp/eng/

Another chain that offers a similar product is Tokyu Stay:

http://www.tokyustay.co.jp/e/index_flash.html

Both of these chains offer online booking in English for overseas visitors too.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:50:34 +0000

http://superfuture.com/city/hotels/hotels_to.cfm? :)