Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Tea For Two
It all started when we were looking at the price of the observation decks around Tokyo. There are a few that are free or very cheap, but if you want visit the deck of the Mori Tower in Roppongi (which we’re told is good) it will cost you 1500 Yen (just over £7). So while were in Shinjuku we popped into the Park Hyatt hotel (come on movie fans, you know the one...), partly because I wanted to see what a hotel lobby on the 41st floor looked like, but also because we thought we might get a good view for free before they threw us out!Anyhow, once we were up there we discovered two things. Firstly, the actual hotel reception area isn’t really near any windows, but the lounge and bar area outside the elevators does have windows on three sides. This led us to our second discovery, and our Top Tip for Tokyo.
For 3000 Yen each (about £14.50) you can have afternoon tea between 2pm and 5. This might sound quite a lot, but it’s an expensive hotel, and when you compare it to the 1500 Yen just to stand and look out of the Mori Tower it’s not too bad. Particularly when you can literally sit there for three hours between 2 andl 5, taking in the view and enjoying apparently unlimited pots of tea and canapes to accompany your sandwiches and cakes. And they even offered us the opportunity to charge it to our room at the end........ which was very tempting considering we weren’t staying there!
We got some fairly good photos but the weather wasn’t really on our side. If you can manage to visit on a clear and sunny day then you will get a great view of Mount Fuji (not our photo of course!).
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