Tokyo Cheap Hotel at Your Fingertips

By: Maison Carson | Total views: 5 | Word Count: 567 | Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 - 6:41 PM

Travel accommodation is a major expenditure. So one wants to find a Tokyo cheap hotel - also comfortable with competent staff able to consult in city trips and distant sights.

Choose a hotel near the city part you want to inspect or from where you can fast get off by subway or bus. In frequent travels out of town look for a hotel near a railroad or bus station. It'll save you road time greatly. If the places you want to visit are outside Tokyo, use the Japan Rail Pass to save on transport.

There're 4 basic methods:
1. Web booking services. Here're some:

HostelWorld.com provides on-line confirmed bookings for hostels, budget accommodation centres and package tours.
HostelBookers.com is the independent hostel booking site that has no booking fees. With youth hostels and cheap accommodation in over 2,500 destinations worldwide, our aim is to be the number one site for student travel, backpackers and for the general traveller.
HotelsCombined.com is a search engine that you can use it to find hotel availability and rates, and to compare prices and offers from multiple merchants.

2. Hotel online catalogs. Reservation is at the given phone N. Here're some:

AsiaRooms.com
J-Hotel.or.jp

3. Guidebooks for hotel search.

Lonely Planet (LP) is a biggest travel book series for low-cost travelers. As of 2008, it published about 500 titles in 8 languages, with annual sales of more than six million guidebooks.
National Geographic shows globe travelers its unique exploration experience over a century long. Each National Geographic Traveler's profile includes a detailed background, site descriptions, walking and driving tour maps, history retrospectives and an extended visitor directory.
Rough Guides, a guidebook series on over 200 destinations, targets backpackers and any budget travelers. Its focus broadens to cover topics like music, movies, literature, science, ethics, etc.

4. Hotel booking at a tourist office.

Things to notice:

Pets
Very few Japanese hotels admit pets. To bring a pet into the country, you need its health certificate, 12-hour airport quarantine and a 2-week home quarantine.

Hotel safe
Keep your valuables in the room or hotel deposit. Although Japan is rather quiet, being on the safe side is always good.

Kids
Hostels don't admit kids under 4. Check their admittance to hotels.

Meals
Breakfast and dinner aren't usually covered by the room price, unlike ryokan (small private hotels) where they're often served to rooms.

Check in/check out
Their time usually differ by 1-3 hours. Besides, at night some hotels close.

Hotel choice
Read recent user comments thoroughly about service quality, latest hotel problems and so on to make a final decision afterwards.

Hotel reach
Carry the following info:

voucher
hotel address and detailed route from a subway or bus station
Tokyo subway bilingual map.

Note that few Japanese know English. So always keep the hotel address and Japan map. When hard to find the hotel, take a taxi.

Have a nice stay in Tokyo!