A superb value hotel in one of the best Tokyo locations

Advantages: Clean, modern, excellent location
Disadvantages: Small rooms and not cheap, but not many places in the area are cheap!

...I'm lucky to have never stayed in a bad hotel in Tokyo. For this trip I decided I wanted to stay near Shinjuku, so previous hotels were out of the question and my budget is getting smaller all the time. Through a combination of reviews on Tripadvisor, rating on hotels.com and a good listing of hotel rates from lowest to highest there emerged a clear winner, the Hotel Sunroute Plaza Shinjuku! Getting there We arrived in Tokyo on the Shinkansen train from Kyoto, switched train lines at Tokyo station and emerged at Shinjuku (one of the major stations in the city). The journey from Tokyo station was easy, it's not hard to get to Shinjuku really as it's such a major station. If you're arriving at Narita you have a couple of options to get to the hotel, you can take the Narita Express train or there is also a bus which stops right...

non_sense 29.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Hotel Sunroute Plaza Shinjuku, Tokyo

FABULOUS HOTEL!

Advantages: Everything you need in one place and excellent location!
Disadvantages: none!

...I have stayed in this hotel 4 times and I love it. It is in an excellent location in Shinjuku close to Shinjuku station and the main shopping area You must check out the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building which is opposite this hotel, it has a free viewing platform where you can see breathtaking views of the Tokyo skyline and Mount Fuji on a clear day! The hotel is wonderful, staff are helpful and friendly and speak English very well. The rooms are very clean and stylish and quite large by Tokyo hotel standards, most rooms in Tokyo hotels are tiny. The rooms have everything you need for a comfortable stay including a mini bar, hairdryer, plenty of storage space, a writing desk, flat screen TV with both western and Japanese channels. There is also free high speed internet access in all rooms which is very easy to use. The views from...

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Review of Keio Plaza Hotel, Shinjuku, Tokyo

Great hotel, great location, great price!

Advantages: Location, has everything you need, helpful staff
Disadvantages: Only small space for hanging clothes but not a major issue

...I stayed in this hotel last November for 2 weeks and would definitely stay again. It is in an excellent location in the centre of Shinjuku, a fabulous shopping district with wonderful neon at night and you are also very close to Shinjuku station which is great to travel to other parts of the city. The hotel was clean, stylish and the staff were very helpful. The bed was comfortable and the room had everything you need including a mini fridge, safe, hairdryer and a TV with Japanese and western channels. The views from the window were wonderful at night where you could see for miles over the Tokyo neon skyline. The room was quite small however this is normal for Tokyo, I have stayed in many hotels here and you only tend to get large rooms in the luxury 5 star hotels. The room is very adequate for a budget traveller who just wants...

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Review of Shinjuku Prince Hotel, Tokyo

My Tokyo experience

Advantages: Very nice trip, worth going back again
Disadvantages: No

...Japan is always one of my favourite country to visit in Asia. Let me share with you my itinery in my last trip. This tour took place when I last visited my parents in Hong Kong. Day 1: Got up at 6 to get to the airport for the flight at 9am. After 3 and a half hours, finally arrived at Tokyo. Went to the toilet straight after, there are still two types of toilet(the Western and Japanese styles), like the way it was when i came a few years ago. Weather was not too bad, a bit cloudy but not too hot. Arrived at hotel at around 6 and started my Tokyo adventure after a brief break. Last time I stayed in the Ginza area which is quite commercial. This time, I stayed in Shinjuku, which is like the Soho of Tokyo. much more exciting, with lots of department stores and restaurant. One of the places that I would definitely go when...

medgenie 26.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Tokyo (Japan)

THE NEXT BEST EMO BAND IN THE UK

Advantages: GREAT ALBUM
Disadvantages: Don't know all the translations

...So one day I?m on Myspace chatting to a few friends. It was about August time in 2006. When I noticed some guy had added me on myspace. I sent him an email simply just saying Hi and asking how he was and he replied. He was about a year younger than I am, had totally different music taste and was from Germany. However still we got chatting and arguing over mostly music. We argued over such things as Justin Timberlake (with him saying he liked the music and myself not liking It.) and other sort of arguments over music from him liking pop/R&B and myself like metal/rock music. However it was fun arguing. One day we started arguing over some random boring R&B artist with Him saying ?well at least they are better than bands like tokio hotel? I replied ?Umm sorry but I have no idea who Tokio Hotel are. Ummm who are they?? He told me they...

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The Beckoning Cats of Tokyo

Advantages: Culture. Interesting
Disadvantages: Difficult for foreigners to understand the cultural significance

...Maneki-Neko, Japanese Beckoning Cats, can be found in the shop windows of stores and restaurants in countless streets of Tokyo and any other of Japan’s major cities. If you take a peep into the windows of the noodle shop, eateries of all types and stores, you will come across the Maneki-Neko grinning somewhat impudently at you from the counter and inviting you into to savour the produce of the shop. In business, the Maneki-Neko is believed to bring success because her raised paw beckons in customers. It also welcomes in personal happiness and harmony. A black Beckoning Cat brings health, while a gold one, which is quite rare, brings in riches. Beckoning Cats one often sold as money boxes. In a house they are supposed to beckon in good friends. Actually the Japanese beckoning cats are part of a very ancient...

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Review of Tokyo

Trip report from Tokyo

Advantages: Exotic for people from the west, it is a very safe place, toilets :-)
Disadvantages: Expensive accommodation, language barrier can cause problems, a bit crowded

...This trip report has also been posted on my homepage http://gardkarlsen.com. Here it is displayed with pictures, videos and links. So please feel free to visit my site. Millions of men in dark suits, crowded subway trains, sushi, taxi drivers with white gloves, neon lights, earth quakes, capsule hotels, sake, sumo wrestling, samurais, geisha, bullet trains, toilets so advanced that you need an instruction manual to use them, manga, polite people, Lost in Translation?.this is our trip report from JAPAN. A short summary The dream team Nikki and Gard on another adventure :-) This time we headed for Japan and we traveled in the period May 15th to May 28th 2005. We started out in Tokyo where we stayed for about a week. We used a Japan Rail Pass to get to Nagoya (the World Expo) and after that we went to Kyoto where we stayed 5 nights...

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Review of Tokyo (Japan)

Four-Poster room for minimal cost

Advantages: Close to the centre
Disadvantages: Noisy due to traffic

...My partner and I visited Manchester in November 2008. We got a good deal on a room at the Britannia through priceline.co.uk - £180 for 3 nights in a superior suite. I noted on the booking that we would like a four-poster suite if possible, and we arrived to find we had one. As noted by other reviewers, the reception staff were not particularly friendly. We didn't have long to wait though and we were soon checked in. There was no problem with my partner wanting to pay using his credit card, rather than mine which we had used to book the room. The hotel foyer is very impressive with the huge chandelier and grand staircase. Unfortunately only one of the two small lifts was working (very slowly) so we got very used to climbing the three flights of stairs to our floor. Good exercise at least. The room was very nice, and generally...

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Review of Britannia Hotel Manchester, Manchester

You don't need to Rescue Me from this album!

Advantages: It's amazing
Disadvantages: It's too short

...Almost a year ago, I was on holiday in Crete during the September weekend. To alleviate the general everyday boredom, I would go to the shop nearest our hotel every afternoon and come back laden down with yesterdays newspapers, to read basking in the sun. Half way through the week, though, I passed a magazine rack and the cover of a German magazine caught my eye. Oh the front was a picture of a... person? Is it a boy, or is it a girl? The writing on the cover read "Tokio Hotel versexen die Fans"... My German's far from fluent but it was enough for me to get the gist. Afraid of forgetting the name of the band, I bought the magazine and brought it back to the UK with me (I still have it, determined to learn enough German to read it all one day). Upon my return I went to YouTube and had my first Tokio Hotel experience (That's what it is...

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Review of Scream - Tokio Hotel

Hotel International

Advantages: Location, breakfasts
Disadvantages: Poor rooms

...I recently went on a cultural girlie trip with a friend to Paris. I was left to do all the booking. I was looking for a reasonable hotel, near a metro stop, which included breakfast. I came across the Hotel International on various travel sites and it seemed fairly highly rated so I booked us in for three nights. LOCATION: The hotel is located 6 Rue Auguste Barbier in the 11th Arrondissement. The nearest Metro stop is Garcourt which was a two minute walk away and it was a five minute walk to Republique which gives good links to other lines. It's not really central enough to avoid the Metro and walk to the attractions but it was located so close to a stop that it seemed ideal. PRICE: Prices vary depending on size of room and season. There are singles, doubles and triples available. We paid Euro254 for the whole time...

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