Travel: Japan - General

[tankee]

My preference is Sunshine City Prince Hotel.


Sunshine city itself is a big shopping mall, linked with the shopping belt to the other malls at and around Ikebukuro station.

room is decent sized (should be considered big within tokyo city).

[mckenzy]

For Disney we didn't stay at the resort area but one train stop away.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-Urayasu_Station

The station has Uniqlo, a large book store, cafes and some shopping..

The Oriental Tokyo Bay is a very nice hotel. They have regular shuttles to Disney. Airport limo can be arranged here as well. Just opposite the hotel is the train station and just behind the station are two Malls.

One of the Malls has loads of shopping, supermarket, cafes, even a food court... we stocked up on groceries and stuff we wanted to bring back to Singapore... nice and quiet. The little i researched about this area depicted the area as catering to an American populace... the district is arranged in blocks rather than the haphazard layout of Tokyo city.

http://lifesg.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/oriental-hotel-tokyo-bay/

[June]

tankee:

My preference is Sunshine City Prince Hotel.

Thanks Tankee, is this near to any train station. Hmm u know i have been spending some time digesting the train network map however i kept seeing stars. By any chance do you know whether are they \"good neighbour hotel\" as intend to hit disney 3 days keke

[June]

mckenzy:

For Disney we didn't stay at the resort area but one train stop away.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-Urayasu_Station

mckenzy: Thanks for sharing.. sounds exactly what i was looking for Will continue to do more research Btw wondering how did u get from disney area to The Oriental Tokyo Bay? Train?

Thanks all for sharing, greatly appreciate

[tankee]

June:

tankee:

My preference is Sunshine City Prince Hotel.

Thanks Tankee, is this near to any train station. Hmm u know i have been spending some time digesting the train network map however i kept seeing stars. By any chance do you know whether are they \"good neighbour hotel\" as intend to hit disney 3 days keke

it is walking distance from Ikebukuro station, which is one of the cross-road stations where you can take different lines.

[mckenzy]

June:

mckenzy:

For Disney we didn't stay at the resort area but one train stop away.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-Urayasu_Station

mckenzy: Thanks for sharing.. sounds exactly what i was looking for Will continue to do more research Btw wondering how did u get from disney area to The Oriental Tokyo Bay? Train?

Thanks all for sharing, greatly appreciate

There is a shuttle bus to and fro Disney to Oriental Tokyo Bay every 30 minutes or so iirc...

The train system is daunting... you just need a smattering of mandarin and you're good to go...

[June]

tankee: Sunshine City Prince Hotel looks good and it was one stop away from Shinjuku …sigh they are not good neighbour hotel…Will need to check how to get to Disneyland from there…


mckenzy: are you a professional photographer? Yr pics are so professionally captured! Do you get to downtown eg: Shinjuku area when u stayed at The Oriental Tokyo Bay, was wondering how to get there…by train …hmm i think i will end up back to the same station haha as it’s so confusing leh.

[tankee]

you can take train from Ikebukuro to Disneyland


http://www.tokyodisneyresort.co.jp/tdr/english/plan/access/accs_ikebukuro.html


and within Sunshine City itself

* Sunshine 60 Observatory - You can enjoy the scenery spreading out 360° around you from the topmost floor.

* International Aquarium - At this aquarium you can not only meet sea creatures, but animals that live on the land and the air as well.

* Sunshine City KONICA MINOLTA Planetarium Manten

* Sunshine City Namco Namjatown - This is an indoors theme park made up of many different attractions and food theme parks.

* Sunshine City Ancient Oriental Museum - Here you can see the magnificent history of human culture.

[babyJC]

The place around Sunshine city is nice…but I find the walk to their train station is a bit long as it takes about 15mins…If not wrong, Shinagawa Prince Hotel is nearer to the train station. You may like to check it out.

[mckenzy]

June, Japan’s rail system although confusing at first, is very convenient.


From Shin-Urayasu you can get to Shinjuku, no problem. We stayed at Shinjuku New City hotel (i would not recommend this though).

From Shinjuku station we took the rail with our (already) 7 days of luggage/shopping to Shin Urayasu station and crossed the pedestrian bridge over to Oriental - and this was at peak hour!

there’s a link somewhere in this very long thread - to the rail/metro trip planner… all you have to do is key-in your start and end-point… the route will be given, together with the cost… let me dig my bookmarks… should be around somewhere…