The Royal Park Canvas- Ginza Corridor — Hotel in Tokyo

I have a love/hate relationship for this hotel.

Hotel location :

It was amazing! It's right next to the train track. But it's surrounded with food choices. This hotel is 5-10mins walk away from the few main stations (hibiya, ginza, yurakucho)

The ginza corridor offers a wide range of food varieties. But beware that some shops have imposed a coverage charge from 400yen - 550yen per pax. Which is compulsory. During weekends, the eateries are packed with locals.

There is also a 7-11, relatively small but sufficient.

Shops are all within Ginza. Very convenient to shop and put down your bags and continue again.

I truly love the location.

Narita Airport express bus is 5mins away from this hotel. Just have to drag the luggage to the Imperial Hotel (nearby) to take the bus. Remember to check the bus website to purchase tickets. It's about 3,600 yen per pax, abt 1.5hrs. Buy early to play safe. Otherwise it's abt 2hrs train ride from Tokyo station. Taxi is abt 30,000 yen and above to Narita airport.

No advice for Haneda Airport

Room :

We paid for Omiki moderate king size room. It's more expensive but has a very good space configuration for opening the luggage. The bed is comfortable and the room is great. Just one thing to note, all expensive room has a (some said pro, some said con) view, which is beside the train track. For light sleepers, they may hate it as the train runs as late as 1230am and as early as 430am. I am not disturbed by the noise, but my partner was. We asked to change room, and was told that all expensive room are facing the track. And if we take the cheaper room, we will not be offered a refund. Our room was #1014. My friends paid for prosecco king room, #601. No track sound, and just a window facing the next building. It was a bit stuffy for my liking.

Staff :

I personally think the staff are less friendly and helpful. This is a hotel that you have to self service. They have pillow menu, but you need to take on your own choice of pillow at #6 . Likewise to ironing board etc. Self Check-in and Self Check-out. No room service. No bell boy. No service. You have to do it on your own. Some may like it, some may not. I personally feel that a little bit of service and friendliness from the staff would be great.

Breakfast :

We didnt take any from the hotel.

Facilities:

2 washer and 2 dryer (i think) very basic for a hotel.

This hotel is also very crowded and happening on weekend nights. There are Djs spinning on weekends. So do note that it may be noisy and crowded.

Overall, it was a good stay. But i dont feel welcomed in this hotel for the service. I may come back for this hotel for the strategic...

We stayed at this hotel 3 times across our 3 week Japanese holiday (1 x 3 nights, 2 x 1 night), each time in a Moderate King Omiki Room. We found it to be really great for our needs for many reasons. The rooms were wonderful - well, a bit strange as two were quite a bit more spacious (815 and 915) than the other one (808), but all perfectly adequate, scrupulously clean and well provisioned. Do-it-yourself Check In was easy and efficient. We didn't really use the bar or restaurant - we did not find them intrusive in any way, and we also didn't have any issue with the trains nearby (we kinda like the sound of trains anyway). The block out blinds in the rooms are the best we've ever seen... you could literally sleep until midday and think it's 4am. But the best part of all is the location - Ginza is (from what we can see) the best part of Tokyo for a tourist to stay. The food along the Corridor and elsewhere nearby provides so many amazing and great value options to sample the local cuisine (try Bistro Fukumimi across the road for one!). You can also stroll the wide boulevards at night and marvel at the brand label shops and funky architecture. We just loved Ginza. It's also easy to get to anywhere you want to with all the train stations and lines within a short walking distance (Yurakucho and Shimbashi on the JR line, plus Hibiya, Ginza, on other lines)... so easy if you are transferring to the Shinkansen at Tokyo only 1 stop from Yurakucho. It's also close (say, 20 min walk) to the wonderful Tsukiji Market and Hamariku Gardens. I would very much recommend The Royal Park Canvas Ginza Corridor for your Tokyo base!|The only slight negatives - the beds are a little hard... but we found that across Japan. It would also be nice if the Welcome Drink actually made you feel welcome, and was anything you wanted and also available whenever you wanted. I don't drink alcohol but it would have been nice to have a zero beer but that wasn't on "the list for the Welcome Drink". I had to have a cranberry juice which was a glass with about 12 cubes of ice in it and a thimble full of juice. It seemed like they really didn't want to give you your Welcome Drink. I had tried to get it at breakfast time (more suitable for juice) but they "don't do Welcome Drinks in the morning". Either offer a really friendly Welcome Drink of whatever someone wants, at any time, or don't...

We stayed at this hotel 3 times across our 3 week Japanese holiday (1 x 3 nights, 2 x 1 night), each time in a Moderate King Omiki Room. We found it to be really great for our needs for many reasons. The rooms were wonderful - well, a bit strange as two were quite a bit more spacious (815 and 915) than the other one (808), but all perfectly adequate, scrupulously clean and well provisioned. Do-it-yourself Check In was easy and efficient. We didn't really use the bar or restaurant - we did not find them intrusive in any way, and we also didn't have any issue with the trains nearby (we kinda like the sound of trains anyway). The block out blinds in the rooms are the best we've ever seen... you could literally sleep until midday and think it's 4am. But the best part of all is the location - Ginza is (from what we can see) the best part of Tokyo for a tourist to stay. The food along the Corridor and elsewhere nearby provides so many amazing and great value options to sample the local cuisine (try Bistro Fukumimi across the road for one!). You can also stroll the wide boulevards at night and marvel at the brand label shops and funky architecture. We just loved Ginza. It's also easy to get to anywhere you want to with all the train stations and lines within a short walking distance (Yurakucho and Shimbashi on the JR line, plus Hibiya, Ginza, on other lines)... so easy if you are transferring to the Shinkansen at Tokyo only 1 stop from Yurakucho. It's also close (say, 20 min walk) to the wonderful Tsukiji Market and Hamariku Gardens. I would very much recommend The Royal Park Canvas Ginza Corridor for your Tokyo base! The only slight negatives - the beds are a little hard... but we found that across Japan. It would also be nice if the Welcome Drink actually made you feel welcome, and was anything you wanted and also available whenever you wanted. I don't drink alcohol but it would have been nice to have a zero beer but that wasn't on "the list for the Welcome Drink". I had to have a cranberry juice which was a glass with about 12 cubes of ice in it and a thimble full of juice. It seemed like they really didn't want to give you your Welcome Drink. I had tried to get it at breakfast time (more suitable for juice) but they "don't do Welcome Drinks in the morning". Either offer a really friendly Welcome Drink of whatever someone wants, or don't...