Hotels & Restaurants (36) - Japonly

Because Japan is full of restaurants and hotels so !!!
We have plenty of tips and addresses to share.

Accomodation

Plunge into a bath of nature : Japan teems with Ryokan, many with onsens.
Japanese style: you will find the guest-houses and cottages ofTokyo here and the Minshuku (B & B) in all the country here.
Or why not sleep in a Buddhist temple of Mount Koyasan?
Lonely traveller (who does not suffer from claustrophobia) capsule hotel is to try, maybe one night to begin ...
A bit of imagination, you will find many Love hotels or better haunted Love hotels, haunted places directories are among the summer bestsellers in Japan, actually false haunted Love hotels have success. In Tokyo, there is one built like a ghost train ... Warning, some are nice, some rather murky...
And also the Western hotels, business hotels, luxury hotels and hostels, note that to stay in the last you often have to become a member.

Other alternatives:
Spend a night in a train and wake up the next day at destination: The Cassiopeia night train the most popular and the most luxurious (only private cabins) leaves Tokyo in the late afternoon. It runs along the Pacific coast and takes the longest underwater tunnel in the world until the island of Okkaido to arrive in Sapporo the next morning. If you prefer the boat, overnight ferry connects Tokyo to the southern islands.
Rent a karaoke box and sing all night long or a cabin in a media-café, kind of cyber-café that offers private cabins with sofa to surf on internet or sleep a few hours.



Restaurants

There are restaurants where you can choose a cat as table companion for the evening (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka), restaurants where robots are preparing the meals, others where small-trains make the service, there is even a restaurant where you are served by monkeys in the area of Utsunomiya. Or foot spa restaurant, as its name suggests it, you eat with your feet in a whirlpool (Tokyo, Kyoto, Hakone ...). You can also eat perched high in a tree (Osaka, Nagano ...) but it's more common ... The themed restaurants: prison, Dracula, Alice in Wonderland ... in Tokyo, there is almost everything!
Note: Tokyo is the starriest city over the world with more than 200 restaurants, but one of the most expensive is in Kobe: the Aragawa.
To note also, they love French names: Le porte bleu, le table ouvert, le minimum grand...

Our addresses:

★ Tokyo:
Cheap: we loved the small street restaurants where you eat kebabs at the counter, 思い出 横丁, Omoide Yokocho a small alley behind the Shinjuku station.
Our little chinese restaurant: Shao chi Shangai,1-3-10 Shinjuku.
Harajaku district: Sakuratei, 3-20-1 Jingu-Mae, Shibuya, Tokyo.
Tsujiki fish market: Sushi Dai,5-2-1 Tsukiji, Chuo, Tokyo 104-0045.
Average price: Tokyo has one of the cheapest Michelin-starred restaurants, The Nakajima, Shinjuku-Nakajima, 3-32-5 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, +81 3 3356 7962. Still count a budget of 50/60 euros. The cheapest of The world is in Hong Kong.
Den Ruoken-tei: Shibuya district, at the top of Parco 1 with terrace and panoramic view.
Chic: Spanish flavors, one star Michelin in 2012 and very appreciated by Japanese: the Ogasawara (Shinjuku)
Luxury: The New York Grill Park Hyatt hotel (Shinjuku) where we settled for a bottle of white wine at the bar, just to experience the atmosphere of the place and enjoy the most beautiful views of Tokyo by night, we stayed a few hours and ate pitta on our way back.
+ Asakusa district: A bar, not a restaurant this time, Rest'Cuzn Café, a Japanese pub with dim lighting and hand-cut ice. 1-41-8 Asakusa, Asakusa Subway Exit 3.
And of course the tiny bar "La Jetée" in the Golden Gai district (Shinjuku).

★ Kyoto:
Local restaurants of the Pontocho dori and especially Zuzu.
To eat delicious food in a traditional house of the district of Gion: Gion ranburu , we eat on tatami mats or at the bar, there is a menu in English inside. 570-125 Gion-machi Minamigawa / Higashiyama-ku.
Café Indépendants: near the gallery Teramachi, in the basement, a bohemian café with sometimes musical evenings.
Back to European cuisine for an evening: Le bouchon lyonnais, adored by Japanese, it is French it is normal ... on the corner of Nijo Teramachi and behind the mayor of Kyoto.

★ Miyajima & Hiroshima:
Many places, no matter, the thing is to taste the famous oysters, huge, raw or cooked, and even in donuts!

★ Yudanaka:
The ideal small mountain village to eat at the Japanese way, sitting on cushions on the floor. Do not forget to taste the soba noodles, speciality of Nagano.

★ Nara:
Café Pao: small terrace, small dishes, small prices, 12-1 Wakido-cho.

★ Nikko:
Hippari Dako, on the main road from the station to the bridge (1011 Kami-Hatsuishi-machi, Nikko): the walls are covered with words, notes, photos, postcards ...

★ Gora (Hakone):
Gyoza center: Chinese dumplings à la mode japonaise, open till 8pm, in this region, others are closed at 7pm!

Japanese boys
Un voyage au Japon (FR)