Our Japanese Hotel

We have stayed in beautiful hotels on our trip here to Japan but our last two nights are in a traditional Japanese hotel. We do have a western bed and a western toilet, but the room is beautifully compact and simple. It is comfortable and has everything we need. All of the amenities a traveler might need are located on a table in the lobby. Guests simply pick up what they want for their stay. The room is the size of a small stateroom on a ship, but every space in the room is well thought out. The breakfast this morning was a traditional Japanese breakfast of salads and fish and soups with a slight nod to a western breakfast by including scrambled eggs and sausages. The room is clean and the staff very attentive and accommodating. We would definitely recommend the Richmond Hotel in Narita, an eastern suburb of Tokyo, but you must understand that it is not a luxury hotel. For us minimalists, it has everything we need, and instead of $400 a night we paid $68 a night. And the restaurant at the hotel is excellent. We had one of the best pizzas we’ve ever eaten last night for supper. So if clean, small and functional, rather than big, fancy and glitzy is your thing, then you can’t beat the Richmond Hotel Narita.Read more