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Advantages: Clean, modern, excellent location Disadvantages: Small rooms and not cheap, but not many places in the area are cheap!
I'm lucky to have never stayed in a bad hotel in Tokyo. For this trip I decided I wanted to stay near Shinjuku, so previous hotels were out of the question and my budget is getting smaller all the time. Through a combination of reviews on Tripadvisor, rating on hotels.com and a good listing of hotel rates from lowest to highest there emerged a clear winner, the Hotel Sunroute Plaza Shinjuku!
Getting there
We arrived in Tokyo on the Shinkansen train from Kyoto, switched train lines at Tokyo station and emerged at Shinjuku (one of the major stations in the city). The journey from Tokyo station was easy, it's not hard to get to Shinjuku really as it's such a major station.
If you're arriving at Narita you have a couple of options to get to the hotel, you can take the Narita Express train or there is also a bus which stops right ...
Advantages: Kumamoto city Disadvantages: kumamoto city
Kumamoto City
Kumamoto City, with a population of over 650,000 is blessed with lots of greenery and water resources.
The prefectural office and many central government branch offices are located here. Long ago,
Kumamoto city flourished as the castle town of the ruling Daimyo Hosokawa feudal clan. (There was
once a prime minister of Japan called Hosokawa) Even today the remains of an ancient castle town can
be found in the rows of stores and houses along the traditional streets of the city.
Two national parks, Aso in the east and Amakusa in the west, are the main tourist resorts of Kumamoto
prefecture throughout the year. Apart from its growth as a tourist region, recently Kumamoto has been
making remarkable growth in the cultural and economic sectors, and following Fukuoka and
Kitakyushu, Kumamoto ranks as the third ...
Advantages: Stunning Imagery. Technical. Mysterious. Disadvantages: Too short.
merge in a mature way.
The battle scenes in Kai Doh Maru are mind-bending. The camera hunks along with the muscular physic of the characters, before plunging alongside a blood-soaked blade or jumping furiously into a documentary-like hand-held manner. It is simply unbelievable, hyper-innovative.
I should add that the battles are very realistic as well as stylish, containing restrained but graphical violence.
The opening music is a by Yutaka Fukuoka; a blend of soft meditative jazzy sounds, hip-hop beats and soul-like singing. Very nice.
The opening credits to Kai Doh Maru are very unusual, featuring a gallery of paintings and drawings that capture the style and spirit of the Heian Period (794 - 1192).
The ending credits are splashed upon a white screen and then fade out into more paintings and drawings, with Japanese poetry attached ...
