Courtyard Tokyo Ginza Hotel
Our second stay on our Asia Honeymoon mini-moon trip will be at the Courtyard Tokyo Ginza Hotel. It is a no frills business hotel with style and the most important thing, location, location, location. In the heart of downtown Tokyo this Marriott is only steps from one of the many subway lines in Tokyo. It will be a quick 20 minute ride to get to the front gates of Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea. The hotel doesn’t offer a pool but it surely makes up for that with the number of restaurants it has for the tourist or business traveler. I look forward to some sushi and other asian cuisine when we get there. I hear noodles are all the rage these days 😛 I have done a little homework on the hotel and it did not suffer any ill effects from the earthquake in March. Keep in mind that the most earthquake and tsunami damage was done several hundred miles away.
I am excited about our stay here in Tokyo as I learn more about the culture and the sights to see. Unlike Hong Kong, Tokyo has 2 Disney parks, Disneyland and DisneySea. Jenn and I will be going to be of them on our trip. The Disneyland park is what you would expect to see in Anaheim from the original Disneyland. However the DisneySea park is based on different ports of call like New York in the 1920s, Venice, Moracco and other exotic places around the world. It looked so interesting that Jenn and I will be paying a visit.
We will have 1 afternoon, 1 day and 1 night to explore the city, asisde from our trips to the Disney parks. We again are going to not be the museum tourists and instead trek to the Imperial Palace, the Tokyo Tower and as many local hot spots as we can find. I have seen many photos of the Tokyo streets at night lit with all the neon signs that give Las Vegas a run for their money. I will post a little bit about those later. For the most part I think this going to to be a photo trip for the two of us. Jenn will bring her new camera and I will bring my old trusty Canon XT. Who knows, maybe there will be a great sale on Canon camera when we are there in some huge electronic store. I could get a top of the line camera for pennies on the dollar. Eveyone has told me that the deals in both Hong Kong and Tokyo are really good. We shall see.
