The Tokyo Traveler

Named by Fortune as one of the best new business hotels, The Peninsula Hotel Tokyo offers an amazing array of services to its guests. The hotels offers 314 guest rooms, including 47 suites on 24 floors as well as five restaurants, a lounge bar, two ballrooms, six elegantly designed function rooms, a wedding chapel and a Japanese ceremony room.
If you need to plan a meeting, the hotel offers meeting consultants who will assist you with the details, but if your trip to Tokyo doesn’t involve a meeting or if you plan on staying an extra day or two, the hotel …read more

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Kamakura is an ancient city that was established in 1192, located about 60 minutes by train from Tokyo, and is a seaside town home to great scenic beauty and many historical sites that are well worth a visit. While it is an easy day trip, with all that there is to do and see in Kamakura, you may want to consider an overnight stay.
In ancient times, the Kamakura Gozan, five great Zen Buddhist Temples, more commonly know as the Five Mountains, were identified and utilized to promote Zen Buddhism throughout Japan. The Kamakura Gozan, ranked first to fifth …read more

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Let your kid’s be Captain Adventure when you visit the Tokyo area this summer.  Book a night at the Pan Pacific Yokohama Bay Hotel Tokyu and ask for the Captain Adventure Plan.  Your kids will be treated to a tour of the bridge of a cruise boat and will receive a keepsake photo with the Captain.  The whole family will enjoy the late checkout, a 90-minute cruise around Yokohama Bay and Tokyo Bay, afternoon tea with cake, live music and a magic show on board.
The Pan Pacific Yokohama Bay Hotel Tokyu has 480 guest rooms and suites and is situated …read more

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Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel has a long and distinguished history. The hotel opened in 1890 across from the Imperial Palace in a impressive Victorian style building that for many decades was the only fully European style hotel in Tokyo. In 1923, the hotel opened a fabulous new building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright which stood until 1968 when the deteriorating building was dismantled, and parts of it rebuilt at Meijimura, a sort of Japanese Williamsburg, outside Nagoya. Parts of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1923 building were preserved and can be found in the new facility which opened in 1970.

If …read more

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