Daiwa Roynet Hotel Ginza

Daiwa Roynet Hotel Ginza is an upper-middle-range corporate chain hotel housed in a tall, narrow building amongst mid-size towers and corporate structures. Guests enter at street level and take elevators up to the third-floor lobby, a sleek, modern space with marble floors and walls paired with low ceilings with recessed lighting. It’s lined on one side with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out on the busy street below. Seating options consist of a few black leather-style chairs and a couple of plush, contemporary bench-style seats in hues of gray and rust orange. A few office chairs that look like they could have been plucked from the Commander's Deck on Star Trek sit at one end. Reception takes place at a long marble front desk that can accommodate up to four parties at once. The hotel attracts a solid mix of business travelers, many of whom are from Japan or elsewhere in Asia, and some families. 

This hotel is located in the central Ginza neighborhood in an area filled with corporate offices and hotels along with lots of shops and restaurants. It's a 10-minute walk from the luxury shops at the Ginza Six mall. The Yurakucho Railway Station is an eight-minute walk away. From the hotel, it's about 22 minutes by public transportation to the Senso-ji temple, and getting to Tokyo Tower doesn't take much longer. Ueno Park, with its springtime cherry blossoms and numerous year-round attractions (such as the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Nature and Science, the National Museum of Western Art, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) take around 20 minutes to get to via public transit. Narita Airport takes a little over an hour to reach via the Kyobashi Station (a five-minute walk from the hotel). Haneda Airport is a half-hour straight shot on the Asakusa Line from Takaracho Station, also around five minutes on foot from the hotel.

This hotel offers a variety of room types, with non-smoking and smoking rooms available for most categories (so make sure to request a non-smoking room if cigarette odors are an issue). Rooms start at 18 square meters (194 square feet) Economy Double Rooms and run the gamut up to 56-square-meter (603-square-foot) Family Rooms and Junior Double Suites. Decor is simple and business like, with plain beige carpeting and white pinstripe linens on beds spruced up with brightly hued silk runners. Gray accent walls and dark-wood furniture add texture to the spaces, but the lack of wall art keeps them stark. Rooms across all categories come with a similar set of features, including desks with office chairs, free Wi-Fi, large wall-mounted flat-screen TVs, mini-fridges, safes, electric kettles with free tea and Japanese tea cups, and free bottled water. Bonus perks include pajamas (with kids’ sizes available) and air purifiers. Higher category rooms add massage chairs, Bose sound systems, and ottomans. Like the main sleeping areas, bathrooms are consistent across categories, with chic interiors complete with square vessel sinks and attractive ash-colored wood-laminate floors. All bathrooms have deep soaking tubs and separate showers, and hairdryers, full-size toiletries, dental kids, and razors are provided. Note that the hotel offers guests staying more than two days the option of foregoing daily housekeeping; those who opt out are given a heated eye mask as a thank you. 

Features cater to tourists and business travelers. There’s a full-service restaurant, Kitchen Salvatore Cuomo, on the second floor, which offers a daily breakfast buffet featuring a mix of Japanese and international options, but it’s not included in room rates. Italian fare is available at lunch and dinnertime, but the restaurant can get busy, so hungry guests not wanting to wait for a table might be better off ordering room service. Other facilities include vending machines, a microwave in the lobby for guest use, coin-operated laundry facilities, and free hotel-wide Wi-Fi. There's also a free public computer in the lobby that guests can use (with printing for a per-page fee). Laptop computers are available for rent through the front desk, for a nominal daily fee.