Hotel Kitcho

Room

For hotel rooms in Japan, this place is extra roomy. We have room to put our 2 large suitcases, actually turn around, and the bathroom was pretty big too! The beds were king sized single and very comfy. Decor wise, nothing fancy, except for the ashtrays that seem to be everywhere.

Rating - 5

Facilities

This provided everything we needed and things I didn't even think I needed. Besides tea and coffee making facilities, fridge, shampoo, conditioner, bath salts, toothbrush, hairbrush, shower cap, cotton buds... I didn't need to bring anything at all! There is a "pillow room" where you can go to choose the type of pillow you want. There's an automatic shoe cleaner where we stuck our shoes in every morning for the tickling effect. The laundry was quite cheap at 100 Yen a wash. We didn't try out the restaurant attached to the hotel but it seemed very popular. The best thing though, they have good quality bicycles available for guests. We took it out for 2 days and felt like a local.

The staff, like all Japanese were very polite and helpful. Their English were sufficient for us to communicate, but sometimes they didn't understand our request very well.

Rating - 5

Location

Depending on how you see it, the location could be an advantage or disadvantage. Located in Nihonbashi, it's away from the tourist area, but it was situated in suburban Tokyo, close to the financial headquarters, so we got to see what happens everyday for Japanese. Things are also cheaper out in the suburbs, there are little izakayas and even a home-made rice cracker store very close to our hotel.

Because of the excellent public transport system, you can reach Kitcho easily from the metro. However, we couldn't ride this for free with the JR Rail Pass, so we mostly walked or cycled to the closest JR station, which took about 20 minutes.

Rating - 3

Value

9450 Yen per night, not including food. For the standard we were given, excellent. I think this place raised the expectations of what we were expecting from hotels for the rest of the trip!

Rating - 4.5

Snoozie Points - 17.5

Info

2-32-8 Ningyo-cho
Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku
Tokyo 103-0013, Japan
Phone +81-3-3666-6161
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