Mitsui Garden Hotel Nihonbashi Premier — Hotel in Tokyo

Located about 30 minutes drive away from the Tokyo Haneda International Airport in Chuo, Tokyo, Kanto, Japan, the Mitsui Garden Hotel Nihonbashi Premier is a 4-star business hotel with well-appointed rooms for discerning business travellers, albeit at premium prices. Opened in September 2018, Mitsui Garden Hotel Nihonbashi Premier is situated directly above Mitsukoshimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, making it convenient to get around.||Ambience at Mitsui Garden Hotel Nihonbashi Premier offers a unique blend of modern contemporary design and traditional Japanese aesthetics, themed around connecting tradition and innovation. There's carefully curated spaces, including an inner courtyard with hand-crafted earthenware blocks and seasonal plants, as well as terraces adorned with artistic arrangements like sculptures and glasswork. The lobby lounge exudes elegance and sophistication.||Rooms at Mitsui Garden Hotel Nihonbashi Premier are smaller than most other hotels, and priced more expensively. I stayed at the Standard Double Room, which was comfortable and well furnished. The bathroom was designed in 3 parts, separating the shower, sink, and toilet. The cable television was lacklustre, while the working desk was decent. The place is clean, and the range of beverages in-room is decent.||Food at Mitsui Garden Hotel Nihonbashi Premier is served at their in-house Nihonbashi Asada restaurant, which many have reviewed as being expensive for what it's worth. Specializing in traditional Kaga cuisine from the Kanazawa region of Japan, dishes are presented kaiseki / multi-course meal style, set within a serene atmosphere with a mix of counter seating and private rooms. However, besides the high price point, the dishes are largely the same across the week, making this place good for dining just once or twice.||Service at Mitsui Garden Hotel Nihonbashi Premier is friendly and helpful, with a good number of staff able to converse in basic English or Mandarin. Housekeeping is thorough and efficient, while reception for check-in and check-out is seamless and quick. Love the idea of the Amenities Self-Service Counter where you can help yourself as needed. There's also vending machines and ice dispensers within the hotel. However, the laundry service is expensive.||The facilities and activities at Mitsui Garden Hotel Nihonbashi Premier are catered to business travellers, though strangely, there isn't any meeting rooms. Still, the lobby lounge, with its free and fast wi-fi and power sockets, can serve as an informal meeting area or co-working space. The highlight here is their relaxation treatments, from massage to a large indoor onsen bath. Nothing much for children's entertainment though, and there's no gymnasium or swimming pool. Overall, Mitsui Garden Hotel Nihonbashi Premier is a quiet and convenient hotel, though...

Stayed at this hotel for five nights mainly, after a lot of confusing online research for a first-time visitor to Japan and Tokyo, due to it's central location and nearness to Tokyo Station - a 7-10 minute walk.|Ultimately, the walk turned out to be a second decision because what didn't appear in the research is that there is a Metro railway station that can be accessed via the hotel's basement. Brilliant.|The hotel itself:|Staff -|Very polite and friendly although difficult at times to understand and be understood.|Very small room - |Moderate Twin Room. Just had enough room to lay down and open two normal large travel bags and leave them open. This removed ability for all seating in the room other than the two large double beds. To get out of bed I had to pull myself up and out by grabbing hold of a side wall panel alongside the bed. |The bathroom facilities are a little different - a bath/shower room where one showers on the floor outside of the fit-for-one-person bath, making sure the door is closed when showering so that the room smoke alarm is not set off. A sign on the door warned of this. |Hand basin facilities are limited with a large bowl being situated in the bedroom between the bed area and bathroom/toilet rooms. The toilet is a teat with it's auto function and multiple flushing and 'cleaning' options.|The toilet door couldn't be closed during the nights as it self-closed with a loud bang.|The bedding coverlet consisted of doonas only, no top sheet, which turned out to be very hot and cold without it, so sleep was at a a minimum.|The first swing would kill a cat in the main room.|Eating facilities -|Advertised as having restaurant eating facilities, the reality is that nothing but bar snacks is offered. We were also offered an included breakfast package that offered 95% Japanese or Asian food and very little by way of Western food. 7/11 a couple of doors down has great sandwiches.|Public transportation availability -|The Tokyo Metro subway rail system proved to be extremely daunting. After taking 25 minutes to walk the described 7 minute walk we eventually found Tokyo Station, but had no faith in doing so again. Japanese are mooted to be helpful in assisting foreigners that have the obvious bewildered look trying to work out where to go and how to get there. After we found locals that spoke English good enough to converse with, we found them to be quite amazing with that help. On two occasions we were so badly lost that a young couple assisted us in abandoning their immediate destination to walk us many blocks to where we wanted to go. Bowed, then resumed their travel. Another young man did the same. Fabulous.|Our saviour was the hidden-for-days Metro basement station at the hotel. Mitsui should advertise this feature quite strongly as we literally...

Stayed at this hotel for five nights mainly, after a lot of confusing online research for a first-time visitor to Japan and Tokyo, due to it's central location and nearness to Tokyo Station - a 7-10 minute walk.|Ultimately, the walk turned out to be a second decision because what didn't appear in the research is that there is a Metro railway station that can be accessed via the hotel's basement. Brilliant.|The hotel itself:|Staff -|Very polite and friendly although difficult at times to understand and be understood.|Very small room - |Moderate Twin Room. Just had enough room to lay down and open two normal large travel bags and leave them open. This removed ability for all seating in the room other than the two large double beds. To get out of bed I had to pull myself up and out by grabbing hold of a side wall panel alongside the bed. |The bathroom facilities are a little different - a bath/shower room where one showers on the floor outside of the fit-for-one-person bath, making sure the door is closed when showering so that the room smoke alarm is not set off. A sign on the door warned of this. |Hand basin facilities are limited with a large bowl being situated in the bedroom between the bed area and bathroom/toilet rooms. The toilet is a teat with it's auto function and multiple flushing and 'cleaning' options.|The toilet door couldn't be closed during the nights as it self-closed with a loud bang.|The bedding coverlet consisted of doonas only, no top sheet, which turned out to be very hot and cold without it, so sleep was at a a minimum.|The first swing would kill a cat in the main room.|Eating facilities -|Advertised as having restaurant eating facilities, the reality is that nothing but bar snacks is offered. We were also offered an included breakfast package that offered 95% Japanese or Asian food and very little by way of Western food. 7/11 a couple of doors down has great sandwiches.|Public transportation availability -|The Tokyo Metro subway rail system proved to be extremely daunting. After taking 25 minutes to walk the described 7 minute walk we eventually found Tokyo Station, but had no faith in doing so again. Japanese are mooted to be helpful in assisting foreigners that have the obvious bewildered look trying to work out where to go and how to get there. After we found locals that spoke English good enough to converse with, we found them to be quite amazing with that help. On two occasions we were so badly lost that a young couple assisted us in abandoning their immediate destination to walk us many blocks to where we wanted to go. Bowed, then resumed their travel. Another young man did the same. Fabulous.|Our saviour was the hidden-for-days Metro basement station at the hotel. Mitsui should advertise this feature quite strongly as we literally...