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

• Dale Roll
  Apr 13, 2024
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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)

Edo-themed onsen and restaurant complex opens in Tokyo, but do overseas tourists know about it?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 23, 2024

Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai brings the charm of an old market town to a new tourist site in Tokyo.

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

Ginza hotel serves up one of the best breakfasts in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Feb 22, 2024

A luxurious buffet befitting this sophisticated part of town.

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• (accommodation • breakfast • Ginza • hotel breakfast • hotels • Japanese accommodation • Japanese food • review • SNJO • Tokyo • tokyo hotels • travel)

This Tokyo hotel has everything you could want–including a great location

• Dale Roll
  Feb 3, 2024

We tested it out so you don’t have to–but you’ll want to!

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• (hotels • Shiomi • Tokyo • Tokyo Disneyland • travel)

Tokyo’s newest hot spring bathhouse and foodie spot opening next to Japan’s biggest fish market

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2024

Onsen and Edo appeal added right next to to Toyosu’s biggest travel destination.

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• (food • hot springs • hotels • Manyo Club • onsen • sushi • Tokyo • Toyosu • Toyosu fish market • Toyosu Market • travel)

We eat at an Ishigaki Island hotel breakfast buffet that has incredible value for the money

• Dale Roll
  Dec 31, 2023

But the trade-off is that it’s rather hard to get in!

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• (breakfast • breakfast buffet • buffet • COK • hotel restaurants • hotels • Ishigaki • Ishigaki Island • Kouhey • Okinawa • seafood • SNJO • travel)

Four of the best Tokyo budget hotels we stayed in this year

• SoraNews24
  Dec 29, 2023

Looking back on a year of cheap but great stays in Tokyo business and capsule hotels.

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• (budget travel • business hotels • capsule hotels • cheap travel • COK • hotels • Masanuki Sunakoma • SNJO • Tokyo • travel)

Free alcohol and curry make this cheap capsule hotel near Shinjuku Station a great place to stay

• Oona McGee
  Dec 19, 2023

A whole load of free perks await you just seconds away from the station.

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• (accommodation • business hotels • capsule hotel • capsule hotels • cheap accommodation • COK • hostels • hotels • Masanuki Sunakoma • review • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • travel)

Osaka hotel has amazing all-you-can-eat takoyaki and kushikatsu breakfast buffet

• Oona McGee
  Dec 19, 2023

Start the day with a street food buffet!

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• (accommodation • breakfast • breakfast buffet • food • hotel • hotel breakfast • hotels • Japanese breakfast • Japanese food • kushikats • local specialties • Masanuki Sunakoma • Osaka • SNJO • takoyaki • travel)

Last chance! Tokyo’s premium pudding at the historic Hilltop Hotel about to disappear【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 16, 2023

70-year-old downtown hotel is closing, possible permanently, but there’s still time for one last taste of its amazing purin platter.

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• (cafes • COK • food • Hilltop Hotel • hotels • pudding • purin • restaurants • SNJO • sweets)

Kyoto hotel OMO5 Kyoto Gion offers Yojiya cosmetics Pretty Girl Room Stay for New Year’s season

• Krista Rogers
  Nov 27, 2023

OMO5 Kyoto Gion by Hoshino Resorts partners with Kyoto cosmetics brand Yojiya for Fresh Beginnings in Kyoto Pretty Girl themed rooms.

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• (accomodation • COK • cosmetics • culture • Hoshino Resort • hotels • Kyoto • OMO5 Kyoto Gion • travel • winter • Yojiya)

Tokyo hotel guarantees good night’s sleep or your money back, provides three hours of free booze

• SoraNews24
  Nov 23, 2023

Will free drinks and a “theater room” have us sleeping deeply through the night?

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• (Akabane • alcohol • all you can drink • COK • hotels • SNJO • Super Hotels • travel)

Stay at a Japanese capsule hotel in Tokyo for less than US$20 a night

• Oona McGee
  Nov 21, 2023

Tokyo accommodation doesn’t get much cheaper than this.

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• (accommodation • Akabane • business hotels • capsule hotel • capsule hotels • cheap accommodation • COK • hostels • hotels • Masanuki Sunakoma • review • SNJO • Tokyo • tourism • travel)

Hilton Japan apologizes for “disrespectful” ad disparaging traditional Japanese inns

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 16, 2023

Negative reaction to unfair comparison between ryokan and hotel experiences prompts video takedown.

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• (Conrad • controversy • Hilton • hotels • inns • ryokan • travel)

Stay in an eerie Japanese ryokan inn near Tokyo Tower for US$40 a night

• Oona McGee
  Oct 28, 2023

Traditional accommodation in Tokyo’s ritzy Minato Ward doesn’t get much cheaper than this…but there’s a catch.

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• (architecture • beautiful • cheap accommodation • cheapo news • COK • cool • history • hotels • inn • Masanuki Sunakoma • Minato • reviews • ryookan • SNJO • Tokyo Tower • traditional Japan • travel • wakeari)

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