This hotel should not be confused with another hotel with the same name in Yokohama.

I stayed in room 902 (a "Type A" single room), for which I paid 6300 yens per night, including breakfast.

I had problems reserving this room. I received no reply to the E-mail messages I sent in English to the address mentioned on the Web page. In the end, I asked a friend in Japan to phone the hotel to confirm the reservation in Japanese.

This was my first trip to Japan, although I've been to China and Korea. The room was incredibly small by my standards, but apparently normal by Japanese standards. It was about the size of a student dormitory room in Canada or the USA.

The bed (which was fully satisfactory) occupied about half the size of the room. There was a clothes rack (but no closet), a television, a refrigerator, a desk and a small chair. The bathroom was made of a single plastic "block", in a manner I again saw later in Japan. The sink... more