All the previous reviews sum up the hotel experience: great location, easy access to metro lines, beautiful decoration, excellent service, amazing city views and fair pricing.

I loved my stay and I would recommend it mostly to anyone going to Tokyo on business, as the rooms provide extras like pc computers, printers, fax, internet access, cyber concierge, etc

Only complaint is the lack of english tv channels, as I only had news channels and would have liked to have a movie channel or Discovery for a change.

overall, a great experience, 5/5

I was in Tokyo in early Dec for a five-day personal trip but I just found the hotel will be my top choice if I ever go to Tokyo again for business needs. As every room is equipped with a desk top PC, flat screen and broadband (no extra charge on internet access), Royal Park Shiodome Tower is an excellent choice for any business trip. The hotel is so thoughtful that they even prepare a spare cable for guests to hook up their notebook PCs to the Internet.

The new, clean and relatively fair rates (breakfast included) hotel is located in the heart of Shiodome area, linked to Caretta and Shiodome City Center where has many great restaurants. The hotel is also within walking distance to Ginza, one of the high-end shopping district in Tokyo. There are five subway lines and JR stations near the hotel that can bring you to almost anywhere you want to go in Tokyo.

I am a Tokyo native living in CA. When a friend in Tokyo recommended Shiodome area, I was a bit apprehensive because the area is a new development I am not familiar with. However I was very pleased with my choice of location, and especially the Shiodome Tower.

Initially we wanted to stay at Park Tokyo (#1 on trip advisor) but Shiodome tower got the unanimous vote by all my contacts in Tokyo ( two of whom work in the travel and hotel industries) and that's where we stayed.

We traveled with another couple, who went on to different cities after Tokyo. Between the two groups, we stayed at 7 hotels and ryokans total. Everyone agreed Shiodome Tower was the best experience by far.

Here are the highlights:

**Throughly modern, immaculate, tastefully decorated, yet affordable by Tokyo standards ($200 incl. taxes and breakfast). Room was exceptionally quiet; I was right by the elevators and the vending machine room and I never heard either of them.

**Nice bed and light comforter, and they offered selections of pillows to choose from! (call housekeeping)

**Smallish rooms but well laid out (at 26sq.m it is bigger than Park Tokyo's 22sq.m) Another factor in choosing Shiodome over Park, for our 6 day stay.

** Only 3 - 4 min walk to Shimbashi station. This was a major factor in choosing Shiodome Tower over Park Tokyo. Between Ginza subway line and JR Yamanote (green) line, I can get to everywhere with ease (Asakusa, Ueno, Tokyo, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Akihabara, Ginza)

**Close to Tokyo Station - taxi was affordable after Narita Express from the airport, and catching bullet train was a snap

**Walking distance to Ginza district and Tsukiji Fish Market.

**Amenities such as 24 hour coin laundry and clothes line over the bathtub were handy.

**Free internet access/PC in room. No room service but they have cyber concerge and deliver food from local restaurants

**Great breakfast and lunch buffet (you can use the meal coupon for lunch as well - lunch buffet is 500 yen extra, or choose from their prix fix menus)

**AM/PM and 7-11 convenient stores are right there (stocks all sorts of drinks, sandwiches, snacks, Japanese bento box lunches)

**Cafe on the 1st or 2nd floor of the bldg. (not within the hotel) seemed pretty reasonable. We thought estaurants in the hotel were quite good but more pricey as you'd expect. Also there is Caretta shopping area close by, which is filled with shops and eateries.

It is true that Shiodome is a new developed area with futuristic and somewhat sterile towers. However, I felt I can get Tokyo experience (and the hustle and bustle) anywhere else I went to - on Subways included - so I didn't miss the "lack of local color" in Shiodome. There were plenty of it on the other side of Shimbashi station anyway. It was nice to come back to the clean, modern, quiet area.

Be sure to use the express checkout on the PC (go talk to the front desk to set it up beforehand) since the check out line can be long at times.

I have stayed at this hotel a couple of times now. It is not very far by taxi to Tokyo Station, and it has a very central location close to Ginza. Nice restaurant for breakfast. Friendly and service-minded staff.