Location, Location, Location

When we chose the Villa Fontaine Hamamatsucho it was partially for price and partially for the location. I knew it would be sort of close to where we were at the Shiba Park Hotel.

For the record we decided not to go back to the Shiba Park for a couple reasons. One, Marina is no longer working there. If she were we probably wouldn't have anyway to try to make it easier on her since we consider her a friend and not just the hotel manager. But there is no allegiance to Shiba Park though we did like the location. The second was that it was more expensive than the Villa Fontaine. I figure if we can reduce costs as the exchange rate is bad it will at least save us some money. I have always said you spend what you need to on vacation. But you don't need to spend a lot just because all the same...

I took a look through google maps to see where the two hotels were in relation to each other and it appears it would be about a 10 minute walk to get from one to the other. That was also good news to hopefully finding some of the places we went to eat when we were there last time that we would like to go back to. Most of those places are along the walk between the two hotels. It should be maybe a 5 minute walk to get to Kirin City or our favorite shouting restaurant (I know Kirin City is still there from their website Kirin City (trust me it is in there, I did the digging) but I really hope the shouting restaurant is still there too. I know a lot can change in 2 and a half years.) as places to eat again.

Remembering how long it took to get to the Tokyo Tower I think it might be about 20 minutes walk or maybe a bit shorter if we don't have to wait too long for traffic lights. Also Roppongi should be about 35 minutes away on foot.

I am sure there is not going to be too much around the hotel itself but we're literally a few minutes from a main street filled with stores and restaurants and probably no more than 5 minutes from the same subway station we used last trip (Daimon) and it looks like there is a Hamamatsucho station that is maybe the same distance away. We also won't be too far from the JR station that we can use our passes to get around Tokyo with. This will save us some little bits of money that we spent on the subway during the last trip. JR does travel around Tokyo but maybe some of the stops aren't as convenient location wise as the subway itself. Plus we are going to have to take the subway once or twice so we all get the experience.