travel42 Hotel Review: Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo

Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Occupying 12 floors of the soaring Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, this is the first major hotel to site itself in the historic Nihonbashi district and is the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group's first venture on Japanese soil. It is only eight minutes away from Tokyo Station with a subway station located beneath the hotel.

In ancient times, when the city was known as Edo, this was the heart of the merchants' district, and it is still a bustling neighborhood, where t...