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Under-the-radar downtown Tokyo neighborhood’s hotel is close to Ueno Park and super affordable

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  May 28, 2024
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Spending the night at Capsule Land Yushima.

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• (capsule hotels • COK • hotels • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • travel • Ueno • Yushima)

Vacation with Oshawott in this Pokémon collaboration hotel room in Mie Prefecture

• Krista Rogers
  May 28, 2024

Let Oshawott be the star of your stay in a popular travel destination city famous for its seascapes and pearl divers.

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• (anime • hotels • Mie Prefecture • oshawott • pearls • Pokemon • Toba • Toba Kokusai Hotel • travel • video games • water)

Cheap hotel beside cemetery at Kozukappara execution grounds in Tokyo is a scary place to stay

• Oona McGee
  May 26, 2024

Things go bump in the night at this unique accommodation in Minami Senju.

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• (budget travel • cemetery • cheap accommodation • cheap hotels • cheap stays • COK • cool • Ekoin • execution grounds • history • hotels • Kozukappara • Minami Senju • ryokan • SNJO • temples • Tokyo • tourism • travel)

This super cheap, super Japanese-looking Tokyo hotel is a hit with foreign travelers

• Casey Baseel
  May 19, 2024

Minami Senju continues to be a travel bargain with the Tokyo SA Ryokan.

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• (budget travel • COK • cool • hotels • Minami Senju • ryokan • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • travel)

Ultra-cheap, convenient Tokyo hotel is a great place to stay…if you pay extra for earplugs

• Casey Baseel
  May 18, 2024

The name should have tipped us off.

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• (animals • budget travel • capsule hotels • COK • crazy • hotels • Nippori • owls • SNJO • tourism • travel • weird)

Tokyo’s famous Lost in Translation hotel is closed

• Casey Baseel
  May 9, 2024

Park Hyatt Tokyo shuts down for very long-term renovation project right as Japan is in an inbound foreign tourism boom.

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• (hotels • Hyatt • lost in translation • Park Hyatt Tokyo • tourism • travel)

Japanese hot spring inn lets you spend night for under US$1 if you do something special in return

• Casey Baseel
  May 8, 2024

Niigata ryokan wants you to make beautiful travel memories and beautiful music.

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• (cool • crazy • hot springs • hotels • music • Niigata • onsen • piano • ryokan • tourism • travel • weird)

This is Japan’s, and the world’s, first capsule hotel, and you can still stay there

• Casey Baseel
  May 5, 2024

Spending the night at Capsule Inn Osaka.

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• (capsule hotel • Capsule Inn Osaka • COK • cool • hotels • Osaka • SNJO • tourism • travel)

All-you-can-drink deal for US$4 in Shinjuku is one of the best finds in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  May 2, 2024

Enjoy an adult drink bar on the cheap, where you pour the drinks how and when you want them. 

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• (coffee • COK • cool • hotels • keio plaza hotel • observation decks • shinjuku • sky lounge • Sky Plaza Ibasho • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)

Two things to do, and two things not to do, when leaving a traditional Japanese inn

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 29, 2024

Ryokan workers share the little things they appreciate travelers doing before check-out, and the things they’d rather you skip.

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• (COK • culture • etiquette • futon • hotels • inns • manners • ryokan • tourism • travel)

Japanese-style accommodation at the new Premium Dormy Inn hotel in Asakusa will blow your mind

• Oona McGee
  Apr 28, 2024

Free perks and beautiful design features make this more like a ryokan than a business hotel.

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• (Asakusa • breakfast • buffet • business hotels • COK • Dormy Inn • food • hot springs • hotels • onsen • restaurants • review • ryokan • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • traditional Japan • travel)

Pokémon Sleep camping suite and guestrooms coming to Tokyo Hyatt along with giant Snorlax burgers

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 24, 2024

Pokémon plushies and nearly one-pound burgers promise a very good night’s sleep.

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• (anime • burgers • COK • food • Grand Hyatt Tokyo • hotels • Hyatt • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Sleep • Snorlax • sweets • tourism • travel • video games)

Tokyo Tsukiji fish market site to be redeveloped with 50,000-seat stadium, hotel, shopping center

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 24, 2024

Former wholesale fish market’s plot has been idle since 2018.

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• (hotels • stadium • sushi • tourism • travel • Tsukiji • Tsukiji fish market • Tsukiji wholesale market)

All-you-can-drink Starbucks and amazing views part of Tokyo’s new 170 meter-high sky lounge

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  Apr 19, 2024

Sky Plaza Ibasho opens in Shinjuku.

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• (coffee • COK • cool • hotels • keio plaza hotel • observation decks • shinjuku • sky lounge • Sky Plaza Ibasho • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan)

This northern Tokyo capsule hotel is cheap, clean, comfortable, and has amazing amenities

• Dale Roll
  Apr 13, 2024

Consider staying here on your next visit to Tokyo!

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• (accommodation • Budget Hotels • budget travel • capsule hotel • hotels • Sugamo • Tokyo accommodation)

Tokyo’s historical Gakushikaian hotel is closing for good, but there’s still time to stay

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 26, 2024

At-home hotel for scholars in downtown Tokyo is nearly 100 years old.

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• (COK • history • hotels • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO • Tokyo • travel)

Super-cheap Online Shopping – Can you make a capsule hotel look cool with a 365-yen aurora light?

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 17, 2024

Masanuki wants to recapture the sci-fi excitement of capsule hotels, but he doesn’t want to spend much money doing it.

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• (capsule hotels • cheap • COK • cool • crazy • hotels • Masanuki Sunakoma • online shopping • SNJO • super cheap online shopping)

Stay in a special Tokyo Metro train room at a hotel with a front seat to the railways

• Oona McGee
  Mar 11, 2024

You don’t have to be a train otaku to enjoy all the unusual perks included in this accommodation plan.

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• (accommodation • hotels • Japanese accommodation • Japanese trains • SNJO • Tokyo • Tokyo Metro • trains • travel)

Ochanomizu Hotel Shoryukan has the perfect balance of class and convenience for your Tokyo stay

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 9, 2024

Our stay at a great hotel in the heart of Tokyo with a big Japanese-style bath, sauna, and great breakfasts.

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• (COK • hotels • Jaran • Masanuki Sunakoma • Ochanomizu • Rakuten Travel • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • travel)

Beware the rise of overpriced “Inbound Don” at tourist spots in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Mar 2, 2024

Return of inbound tourists means prices are skyrocketing, with some places charging US$120 for a bowl of seafood. 

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• (Edo • food • hot springs • hotels • Inbound Don • Inboundon • Manyo Club • onsen • seafood • Senkyaku Banrai • SNJO • sushi • sushi restaurants • Tokyo • Toyosu • Toyosu fish market • Toyosu Market • travel • Tsukiji fish market)

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