Mitsui Garden Hotel Shiodome Italia-gai - Tokyo♡

My first visit to this hotel and it met my expectations, overall very good; excellent price for mone

8.0

Wonderful rooms. Terrible location. Breakfast is a joke.

6.0

The Room was very comfy and big enough for us. It actually felt pretty luxurious. Beds were nice and big. We did not suffer from any noise (well, except the drills from the fire station across the street, but only during the day). Cleaning service was reliable and very proper. Washing machines easy to use. 3 different convenient stores right around the corner. Check-in / Check-out was relatively uncomplicated.

− The district is the worst home base you can pick for a tokyo vacation. If you want to have a japanese experience, avoid Minato City: It is heavily inspired by mediterran influences and tries to be a "little italy". I did not fly 12 hours to have nothing but pizzerias on every corner. Every point of interest is more or less 30 minutes away. Besides faux-italian experience, you mostly have offices and urban highways there. In a similar note, skip booking breakfast, if you are there for more than 3 days or so. It tries to be a japanese-italian fusion, failing terribly at both: You have 3 sad looking pizza variants (always the same), oily pasta and some bread (no cheese or cold cuts for that) on the european side. Plus some "bacon" and sausages and some absurdly runny scambled egg. No vegan milk alternatives for coffee. Soft boiled egg, cooled on ice for some reason. Some "chefs chili", seemingly the same every day. On the other hand, you have miso soup to which you can add wakame or spring onion, nothing else. Cold soba noodles and soup, again, without much to put into it. Soy soup, which was way too salty, even for me. Some tamagoyaki, thank god. Alternating per day mackerel or salmon, both consisting of more bones than meat. Rice but no furikake or anything else to really add to it. No surimi, no other fish products. Some overly soft tofu, again nothing to pair it with. Less japanese food than at your run of the mill street sushi vendor at home. Also, no variety. I was bored to tears of it after day 4. After the first week, I basically had miso soup and a bit tamagoyaki for breakfast, nothing else. You can get better things at the lawson next door, cheaper. Only book, if you like sweets for breakfast, the small cakes, croissants and fruit are decent.