The Peninsula Tokyo is located in possibly the best place in Ginza, a few minutes from the shopping, restaurants and opposite Hibiya Park and the Imperial Palace. For sure, it’s a nice hotel and everything you’d expect from a Peninsula but like a lot of Peninsula and Oriental Mandarin properties, it’s a little bit stuffy and toffee nose for my liking. Not so much the staff, but the type of guests who stay here tend to think they’re absolutely shit hot and the greatest things since Knight Rider. If you like to wear shorts and a t-shirt when you’re on holiday like I do, you always feel a bit scummy when you walk into the hotel where there is always going to be the locals with too much money who are dressed up in there ball gowns and suits on a Sunday morning.
The Peninsula Tokyo is no exception, and during the time we were there, there were several (not a few, but several) celebrity weddings, so when you walk out of the lobby, you have a whole crowd looking at you wondering who on earth this shabby bastard is with his shorts and t-shirt on! I guess if you like attention and have every fancied yourself as a superstar, it’s a good chance to see how it feels. No big deal, can’t really complain about that.
The Peninsula Tokyo Lobby
Didn’t eat at any of the restaurants in the Peninsula Tokyo, with the exception of breakfast, which was average at best. With hundreds, probably thousands of restaurants within walking distance, why would you pay the double the money to eat something that’s almost certainly not double as good. Of course this is subjective and if you’ve got enough money to be staying in the Peninsula then you probably won’t care about whatever it costs to eat there.
Pretty much everything about the Peninsula Tokyo is as you’d expect, nice staff, clean rooms with an excellent shower and nice bathroom. Our view was a bit shit and the room service we ordered a couple of night was mediocre, other than that, no complaints and by far the best thing about the Peninsula Tokyo is the location.
See the Tokyo Destination Guide here.
