Hearton Hotel Higashi-Shinagawa — Hotel in Tokyo

This was my third stay here over three years when I traveled to visit my son and his family in Shinagawa. The hotels remains an excellent place to stay. The rooms are small, useful as a place to sleep and refresh, but not for entertaining at all. The room was clean, smelled fresh, as a nonsmoking room should. The shower and WC are quite useful and the water pressure is excellent. ||The hallways and lobby are clean and the staff is efficient and speak English well enough. I love the breakfast buffet, with its distinctly Japanese flavor. It is well worth 1100¥, especially at the current 111¥/USD exchange rate. Plenty of choices, even if fish and seaweed aren’t in your breakfast plans. ||The Aeon mall provides many stores and restaurants. Within 150 meters there are bus stops to Shinagawa and Oimachi stations, and from there into Tokyo. There is also subway service to Tokyo and Odaiba. ||The neighborhood is pleasant and safe for walking if you need to get your 10,000 steps in. A favorite stroll for me is to walk a short way to cross the bridge over the adjacent canal, then walk along the opposite side of the canal. There are two paths, one in the shade and the other in the open right along the water. ||The hotel is near Hanedakuko and a nonstop airport bus, Keikyu Line, costs just 570¥ and leaves many times daily from the nearby city bus stop. ||So, small rooms but just right for sleep and cleaning up, great buffet, efficient and friendly staff, conveniently close to an Aeon mall and bus and train stops. What’s not to like about the Hearton Hotel...

This was my third stay here over three years when I traveled to visit my son and his family in Shinagawa. The hotels remains an excellent place to stay. The rooms are small, useful as a place to sleep and refresh, but not for entertaining at all. The room was clean, smelled fresh, as a nonsmoking room should. The shower and WC are quite useful and the water pressure is excellent. ||The hallways and lobby are clean and the staff is efficient and speak English well enough. I love the breakfast buffet, with its distinctly Japanese flavor. It is well worth 1100¥, especially at the current 111¥/USD exchange rate. Plenty of choices, even if fish and seaweed aren’t in your breakfast plans. ||The Aeon mall provides many stores and restaurants. Within 150 meters there are bus stops to Shinagawa and Oimachi stations, and from there into Tokyo. There is also subway service to Tokyo and Odaiba. ||The neighborhood is pleasant and safe for walking if you need to get your 10,000 steps in. A favorite stroll for me is to walk a short way to cross the bridge over the adjacent canal, then walk along the opposite side of the canal. There are two paths, one in the shade and the other in the open right along the water. ||The hotel is near Hanedakuko and a nonstop airport bus, Keikyu Line, costs just 570¥ and leaves many times daily from the nearby city bus stop. ||So, small rooms but just right for sleep and cleaning up, great buffet, efficient and friendly staff, conveniently close to an Aeon mall and bus and train stops. What’s not to like about the Hearton Hotel...

I’m just finishing a night at the Hearton Higashishinagawa Hotel. The hotel is along the Rinku line at Shinagawa Seaside Station and connects to the Tokyo Monorail at Tennozu Isle, a 900 m walk way (or one station) for easy access to Haneda Airport. I arrived at the hotel at 1 am, walking from Tennozu Isle after the trains had stopped. Check in was easy and efficient and there was no hassle about me being foreign looking. I spoke Japanese and was checked in as Japanese people are. Perfect. I paid cash and again no hassle, even at 1 am. The room price at this hotel is really affordable for Tokyo, and at under 10,000 yen a night is a bargain. The room size is generous for Tokyo as well and even the bathroom is slightly larger than most economy hotels here. The room has adjustable heat controls making it pleasant to stay in. My room on the 6th floor is comfortable and quiet. There is slight noise from traffic, but that’s everywhere in Tokyo. Express check out is available, just drop your key in the box outside the elevators and go. No self-checkin machines as well. I hate those things at other hotels, and want to talk to a human when I check in. Hearton had that human touch. Overall, I enjoyed my stay. This is my first Hearton Hotel. I hope all of them are...