Can I find suitable (and affordable) accommodation in Japan with children?

4/30/2013 6:12:52 AM

I was quite impressed with the Tokyu Stay chain recently. Full review of their Nihonbashi hotel here, but quoting the pertinent bit:

As for the rooms themselves, they’re mini-apartments: all but the very
smallest come with a kitchenette, full-sized fridge and a
washer-dryer. The twin room we stayed in is 30 m2, spacious for Tokyo,
with two beds that can be pushed seamlessly together into a ginormous
super-king, and an inner door between the bedroom and the kitchen. The
fast and free internet comes in both wifi and wired flavors, with no
hoops to jump through: connect and you’re in, as many devices as you
like, no passwords etc. Last but not least, the bathroom comes
equipped with a big Japanese ofuro tub for soaking away.

And the price is right: singles start from around Y6000/night, while
you can score the twin for ~Y11,000/night (per room, not person). If
there’s another place in central Tokyo that gets you all this for
less, I’d like to hear about it!

That said, Japanese hotels are actually pretty cheap these days, it’s not too tough to find a decent business hotel in a decent location for Y5000/night and at that rate even booking two rooms may be feasible. Wikivoyage’s Japan with children also has some ideas.

4/30/2013 5:02:32 AM

I would also check Airbnb, as there a lot of place listed for a variety of budgets
https://www.airbnb.com/s/Japan

I travel on various budgets around Asia with my family and we regularly use Airbnb (or Flipkey as well, but Airbnb has been better with budget places) to book an apartment for ourselves.

My days of sleeping in capsule hotels are far in the past now that I have children 😉

10/9/2012 7:56:53 PM

Smaller, family-operated hotels (known as Ryokan or Minshuku) are often much cheaper than large ones. They may have Japanese-style rooms where you sleep on futons, Western-style rooms with beds, or both, and there may be somewhat cheaper rooms with a shared bathroom. The rooms can be pretty small though, and the facilities not as new or high-class as you’d expect from a regular hotel.

The Japanese Inn Group is an association of such hotels that operates an English website through which you can also book rooms. I’ve used them in the past and was quite satisfied.

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