spacious room, great view, comfy bed if you ask for the Japanese bed( a futon they put on the standard beds), morning paper. Join the free Prince Club International, and save money on the rooms. food is spendy, and just so so. eat at nearby, walkable Akasaka area for all types.

Even by the high standards of luxury hotels in Japan, the Grand Prince Akasaka is outstanding. Many well-trained, friendly and helpful staff, large and comfortable bedrooms, excellent food - and if you shop around you can find very good room rates: I paid 13,000 yen ++, for a single room. The large buffet breakfast is worth it (2,700 yen), not least for the superlative view from the 40th floor; and you can sit and drink coffee for as long as you wish.

The Grand Prince was everything that I could have asked for during my recent brief Tokyo vacation. It's in a good location, just outside of busy Akasaka, with tons of places to eat and drink, and very close to a subway with good connections all over the city. We happened to be there during cherry blossom week, and outside the hotel is one of the more impressive displays in the city, so there were always people out there shooting photos.

The room was definitely better than expected. It had amazing views, being on the 28th floor. There was a big, comfortable bed, along with a large L-shaped sofa, in a very spacious room. We stayed at another similarly-priced hotel (Sunroute Shinjuku) during our stay that had a room about a third of the size. As a disclaimer, however, we did stay in a capsule hotel the night before checking in, so it may have seemed even bigger than it was.

The front desk staff couldn't have been nicer, and all the hotel seemed to have every amenity that you could ask for. I'd recommend it to anybody!

We miss the Akasaka Prince hotel! We stayed 4 nights in May 2007 and it was one of the best hotels I've stayed at in a while. We had requested a room on a high floor, and the hotel gave us an enormous room on the 35th floor, with a great view. The room had a king size bed with two nightstands, a full couch, a desk and several chairs, a coffee table, and a tv chest, and we still had plenty of room to spread out. The bathroom had a nice deep bathtub, and the hotel provided all sorts of amenities from q-tips, band-aids, headbands, and bath salts to several miniature bottles each of shampoo, conditioner, lotion, and body wash. The rooms all have panoramic windows - which was awesome. Although the hotel is in a "business hotel" district and there isn't too much to do in Akasaka, the hotel is a 2-3 minute walk away from Tokyo's extensive Metro, where you can get most anywhere in the city for 160 yen. Plus, there are some excellent restaurants right outside the hotel. I appreciated the express elevator that allowed people in rooms on the 20th-40th floor to zoom on up. The service was great. Our friend joined us in Tokyo and had booked a room at this hotel as well. Although Akasaka Prince had given him a double room for the duration of his stay, upon check out they asked if he was traveling alone, and volunteered to charge him at a significantly cheaper single rate. We booked this hotel on priceline.com for an average of $130 a night, and didn't have any problems. Will stay here again when I visit the fabulous city of Tokyo in the future.