karaksa hotel premier Tokyo Ginza

The hotel was well situated in the Ginza district. High end shopping was everywhere and excellent. The Ginza subway was really close so easy to get around the city. Our bed was huge - larger than king size. Shower area was also very spacious. We loved the Japanese breakfast delivered in the morning. The western breakfast wasn’t as good. The complimentary snacks and drinks were quite handy as we often had a late night snack or dessert. Overall a very nice place to stay.

Free snacks (waffle ice cream) and wine/sake at the lobby lounge. Close proximity to JR and Don Quijote. Room is clean and new, with Dyson hair dryer. It fully met my expectations, the best stay so far for Tokyo.

it would have been great if they have laundry service.

The hotel location is very good, not far from the main Giza shopping area. You can easily walk everywhere. The room is spacious. The lounge is a bonus, it provides free drinks including sake & wines (2 glasses per person per night) & snacks all day long.

No washing machine

When we opted to move hotel rather than stay at the Karaksa, the hotel receptionist was very helpful and pleasant to deal with.

We booked the Karaksa on the basis of the many positive reviews. We were specifically interested in the lounge access for premier room guests. When we arrived at the hotel we realised that the ‘lounge’ was a small room off the small reception area with no seating, where premier guests could help themselves to the complimentary wine, pastries etc. The photos on the website which we took to be of the lounge, were in fact wide angle photos of the small reception area, there was limited seating in this area with guests checking in and out of the hotel/ luggage around etc, it was not the comfortable lounge we were expecting. The room was fine but there was no wardrobe, instead there was a hanging bar which was flat against the wall that would only take a couple of garments. We couldn’t understand why breakfast has been commended by so many; we stayed when the following morning was a European breakfast, (this alternates with the Japanese option). The breakfast consisted of two bowls of onion soup; one small serving of an omelette with ham and two tiny croissants. The egg dish was too small to be shared and we couldn’t understand why onion soup was served at 9 am. There is no restaurant or bar, hence breakfast being served to the room and as mentioned no lounge-this did not feel like a four star hotel.