Hotel Ryumeikan Tokyo

We would definitely go back to the Ryumeikan. Convenient. Location was 3/4 block and across the street from entrance to Tokyo Station, JR Ticket counter, Daimaru, many shops and restaurants. We had a nice view. Breakfast was delicious - best tamagoyaki, which is evidently the mark of a good chef in Japan! The young chef did not get annoyed or rattled as I watched and admired his technique. The worst part was finding the hotel. They should have directions on their website for people coming from Narita. Here are my directions: If you take the Tokyo Limo Bus from Narita, get off, and look for the store (across the street) called Labi - go to it and then keep walking. Labi is a huge electronics store. I think that at that point you are walking north. Other small complaints: they put a smell into the air when you first walk in that bothered me. It could affect people with asthma or people who get migraines from smells. Second small complaint - the desk person we asked for help had a great deal of trouble locating their hotel on a map - so they couldn't help us with directions. But overall, we loved the hotel and without a doubt, would go back!

We enjoyed staying here. The hotel is a short walk from the Tokyo train station. The breakfast was great but it is served in a very small area and frequently you have wait for table. We booked a corner room after seeing the pictures, but they were deceiving since one wall butts up against an office building. The beds were the hardest we experienced in Japan.

We had a five night stay at this hotel in two different rooms. One (Forus-C) had a window but no view and it was dark and dreary. The other was a larger room with an outdoor facing window which was much better. The hotel is near Tokyo station and very convenient for all modes of rail transport - metro, regional and the shinkansen. I booked directly with the hotel around six months before our stay. I found the booking system unreasonably complicated. Despite wanting a flexible option and choosing to pay more for flexibility, the hotel charged me in full at the time of booking. The 'pay at hotel' option was greyed out which I found frustrating. It ended up costing us AUD 200 more because the Australian dollar went from 92 yen to 110 yen during that period. I hope the hotel makes their booking system more user friendly. We did not have breakfastat the hotel. There are many western and Japanese cafes/restaurants in the vicinity and in the station precinct. Staff were very polite and had working knowledge of English which was very helpful. There is a user paying laundry facility in the hotel but the dryer does not operate with the same ferocity as those in the US and other western countries so it's advisable to extend the 30 minute cycle to anhour in one hit rather than return to top up.