Aman Tokyo opens Dec 22, 2014
Dec 19, 2014, 4:56 am
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Aman Tokyo opens Dec 22, 2014
Having trouble finding a hotel in Tokyo where a regular room lightens your wallet by 100,000 yen/night? Fear not, Aman Tokyo in Otemachi is about to solve this pressing problem:
http://www.amanresorts.com/amantokyo/home.aspx
Cheapest room Y91,930 for a randomly chosen night in April. Then again, this does get you 71 sq.m., which is pretty gargantuan by Tokyo standards. Plus complimentary purple prose:
http://www.amanresorts.com/amantokyo/home.aspx
Cheapest room Y91,930 for a randomly chosen night in April. Then again, this does get you 71 sq.m., which is pretty gargantuan by Tokyo standards. Plus complimentary purple prose:
Recognised as one of the world’s Global Cities alongside New York and London, Tokyo is an exciting, vibrant destination. History, commerce and culture fuse in this mega-metropolis that is truly cosmopolitan, yet intrinsically Japanese, offering fascinating juxtapositions at every turn. Gleaming skyscrapers reach for the heavens beside 19th-century palaces; humming intersections exist alongside quaint lanes, lined with convivial yakitori-ya, ramen shops and shochu bars; state-of-the-art shopping centres selling the world’s most exclusive labels overlook beautiful parks, pink with cherry blossoms in spring.
Dec 20, 2014, 5:27 pm
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Dec 20, 2014, 5:53 pm
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Recognised as one of the world’s Global Cities alongside New York and London, Tokyo is an exciting, vibrant destination. History, commerce and culture fuse in this mega-metropolis that is truly cosmopolitan, yet intrinsically Japanese, offering fascinating juxtapositions at every turn. Gleaming skyscrapers reach for the heavens beside 19th-century palaces; humming intersections exist alongside quaint lanes, lined with convivial yakitori-ya, ramen shops and shochu bars; state-of-the-art shopping centres selling the world’s most exclusive labels overlook beautiful parks, pink with cherry blossoms in spring.
There is a Family Mart convenience store not far from the hotel entrance and a bunch of restaurants in the basement of the office tower the hotel is in, but otherwise it is just a business office area which will be dead at night and on weekends.
Still, there is enough of a crowd that will always choose the most expensive hotel in town so that I expect they will maintain at least 40% occupancy once they get underway. This crowd would fill the suites, however, not the Y92,000/night rooms that are there for the proletariat.
Dec 20, 2014, 9:32 pm
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That is certainly true for Tokyo in general but in the area of the hotel, as far as I know, there are no 19th century palaces, no quaint lanes (lined or unlined with convivial yakitori-ya), no state-of-the-art shopping centers, and it is not pink with cherry blossoms in spring.
There is a Family Mart convenience store not far from the hotel entrance and a bunch of restaurants in the basement of the office tower the hotel is in, but otherwise it is just a business office area which will be dead at night and on weekends.
There is a Family Mart convenience store not far from the hotel entrance and a bunch of restaurants in the basement of the office tower the hotel is in, but otherwise it is just a business office area which will be dead at night and on weekends.
Dec 21, 2014, 9:28 am
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Looks like a lovely hotel. Too bad I don't ever see myself affording it.
No... Not even the prol. rooms.
Dec 21, 2014, 11:49 am
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About the same price as for a real top class Ryokan, except that at the latter you get Kaiseki meals, private outdoor baths and "authentic geisha" entertainment included.
E: Room size 160 m2 for 90.000 yen
E: Room size 160 m2 for 90.000 yen
Dec 21, 2014, 8:03 pm
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Don't think there any other interesting stores and although I haven't been there at midnight, I doubt that it is lively then since most shops and restaurants inside are closed by 11pm (10pm on Sunday) according to their website:
http://www.marunouchi.com/e/shoplist...u/gourmet.html
There are a few bars open later apparently and presumably a fair amount of through walking traffic to Tokyo station.
Furthermore, I bet it takes more than two minutes to get from a hotel room to the street, let alone to walk from the street to that building. I would say the nearest interesting nightlife area is the Ginza (for big spenders) and the izakaya under the tracks near Yurakcho station (for the rest of us). Those are a 10 - 20 minute walk. Both the FSM and the Peninsula are way closer to those.
The upscale/luxury hotels that I'd rate as closest to a full-fledged entertainment district are the RC and the Grand Hyatt in Roppongi.
Last edited by RichardInSF; Dec 21, 2014 at 8:14 pm
Dec 21, 2014, 8:57 pm
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Well I was surprised too, but I've been there at midnight and much later (the entire, huge seventh-floor area is open until 4am every night but Sunday), and it is indeed quite lively and often raucous.
Dec 22, 2014, 4:06 am
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Dec 22, 2014, 8:28 am
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Huge fan of Aman beach resorts - don't believe the concept works quite as well in a city hotel, however. That said, I'll probably give this a shot at some point once they work out their service kinks.
In fact, may make a good venue for a Luxury Hotel Forums mini DO.
In fact, may make a good venue for a Luxury Hotel Forums mini DO.
Dec 23, 2014, 4:52 am
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