Tokyo Inn

Breakfast was included, a paper voucher for each morning we stayed. It's a self-service buffet with quite a few options, including a waffle maker with green tea and plain mix options. There were a few different cold and hot drink machines too, and an impressive selection of leaf tea (white peach, many green teas, earl grey, rooibos stood out) so hopefully something to suit most people's tastes. The room was nice although a bit cramped around the bed. The bed and pillow were extremely comfortable -- they were much firmer than I expected, compared to the last hotel I stayed at with big very soft pillows. Here you just get one small, dense pillow, but I slept like a log every night except the first, putting that down to jet lag. Shower was plastic and creaked under foot but worked really well, and the toilet... well let's just say it does more for you than I expected, and makes European toilets look like stone age technology. A cotton/polyester yukata robe was provided and replaced/washed every night. No clothes iron but you could request one at the desk. Staff were friendly and spoke enough English for our purposes, although I would strongly recommend learning basic Japanese before arriving because they speak quickly in shops and COVID masks (still a thing in Japan at the moment) make it hard to hear speech clearly.

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