Just writing another review on another great hotel. We are from Ireland on a trip around the world and our first stop was Tokyo. We had no clue of anything about it but thought we may as well give it a go and are so glad we did. The hotel is wonderful. The staff are all English speaking, very helpful (they do not accept tips), and they show that they respect their customers unlike most hotels I've stayed in. It was a brilliant experience. The room was smallish but what a view. Rooms start on the 23rd floor and you can look out over most of Tokyo.
The food for breakfast is mostly Irish/English menu as well as Japanese. There is an Irish bar in the hotel building called the Roundstone which they staff were very helpful with.
Tokyo itself. Well let me give you a few bits of advice. To get to the hotel get the limo bus service. To get around the city there are about 50 different rail services. Ok well i exaggeratted there but there are a few e.g. The Toei, Tokyo Monorail, JR Lines, Tokyo Subway and some are in the same building which confuses the hell of you. To get to the city you use the Monorail rail to Hamamatsucho them walk down the stairs and out of the building beside the World Trade Centre to get to the subway station and link up to the main parts from there. The main parts to visit are Ueno (Gardens, Temples and a brilliant Zoo), Ginza (Shopping), Shibuya (Main Shopping and busies crossroad in the world), Roppongi (Night life), Akihabara (Electric City - All electrical goods), Shinjuku (Shopping), Tokyo Centre (Temple) and a few others to name a few. Was an excellent experience. Ask for menus in English as they don't provide them upfront. Another note about the metro/subway etc lines is to remember what number you entrance in was e.g. it could be 'B4' so when you go back you follow the signs. It's probably much harder then NY, Paris, London and DC, all of which I'd no trouble with at all but Tokyo was the hardest as most is provided in broken English.
N.B. Here is a good subway map
http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~ipy/sympo/map-files/rosen_eng.jpg






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