travel42 Hotel Review: Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo

Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Facing the huge Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office, this hotel is 400 meters west of Shinjuku Station (convenient for those arriving from the airport on public transportation) and east of Shinjuku Central Park.

The structure was one of Tokyo's first hotel skyscrapers, a 47-story tower now overshadowed by the 52-story Park Hyatt three blocks away. Even so, both the original building and the 34-story south tower still afford fine city sweeps (though no lon...