Originally Posted by
hailstorm
Walking to Shinjuku station from the hotel is a really easy walk, almost impossible to get lost. Go out the front door, hang a right, down the stairs, hang a left, walk a bit until you get to the covered moving walkways, take those to the end and follow the signs from there. Once you do that once, getting back becomes trivial, provided you get out from the proper West exit.
I agree with this. Although, I did have trouble getting from the area of Shinjuku east of the station back to the hotel late at night when the roads are blocked off and the only way to get there is to cut through the station. (and some of the paths in the station are blocked off). I eventually figured out that I had to cut through the station, went in, walked around, got turned around, and ended up leaving from the same place I had entered (not intentionally of course). It probably took me about half an hour to figure it out and get to a western exit.
That's just part of the fun of traveling in a place where you don't speak the language though.