First, thanks everybody for the great help. ^ ^ Now, a couple of clarifications:

Is the Keio Plaza (previously ic hotel) the same one as the now Keio Plaza summit hotel:
http://www.summithotels.com/hotel_ho....cfm?id=TYOKP&

Also as far as walking to the major dept. stores etc in GINZA and/or SHINJUKU goes, I have searched on the web and seem to have shortlisted these hotels:

- Keio Plaza, A summit hotel
- Hilton Tokyo
- Century Hyatt
- Le Meridien Pacific
- Renaissance Tokyo Ginza Tobu

All these hotels roughly seem to be charging between 20000 - 23000 yen per night for the basic rooms. Is this about par? Which of these would the most suitable? Any experiences in these...

And they all claim to be within walking distance of the major shops/ dept stores etc in the area. Could anybody confirm/dispute this claim.

thanks a heap,
AJ