Hotel prices in Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto exploding

[Dmac59]

Check around stations on the southern part of the Osaka Loop Line.

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[DrGear]

The area of Osaka that I normally stay in was reasonable for my recent booking there (3 night stay 3 weeks ago), barely unchanged from pre covid prices. Also got good prices in Yokohama, Numazu and Kanazawa for recent trips.
My go to hotel in Shinagawa has gone up, but the normal places I use in Kanda and Ikebukuro are still good.

The timing also has something to do with it, but I checked around all over Tokyo and other areas and there's a distinct uptick in prices regardless of date. We travel to Japan with some frequency so we've got places we can go, but the golden route cities are going to continue going up and up.

Meanwhile, in the regional areas we could get decent accomodation right near where we wanted to be for less than $100 a night.

 

[sudoer]

Tokyo prices have gone absolutely crazy.

I'm staying at Conrad Tokyo 28-31 March, paid with HH points and FNCs. From the moment I booked (almost a year out) until now, a base category room has hovered around $2.2k per night.

Similar story at Aloft Ginza over Christmas 2023. They wanted $4000 for 5 nights in a 4 star shoebox - paid 180k Bonvoy instead.

Hotel programs can deliver outstanding value in Tokyo.

 

[Himeno]

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[DrGear]

Tokyo prices have gone absolutely crazy.

I'm staying at Conrad Tokyo 28-31 March, paid with HH points and FNCs. From the moment I booked (almost a year out) until now, a base category room has hovered around $2.2k per night.

Similar story at Aloft Ginza over Christmas 2023. They wanted $4000 for 5 nights in a 4 star shoebox - paid 180k Bonvoy instead.

Hotel programs can deliver outstanding value in Tokyo.

I don't travel enough to get those kinds of points and I'm fine with just a bed to crash in so business hotels have been fine for my needs. It is completely crazy just how much the prices went up over the year though, even in areas as far out as Saitama.