Bikes in Japanese Hotels

I've 90% decided that I want to go to Japan in August. I looked at my airmiles balance and decided that it needed to be blown. All of my airmiles plus £360 will get me to Japan from London.

The next thing on my list is a hotel. I'm wanting to do this as cheap as possible (so I can blow more cash on NJS). There's a mad space capsule hotel in Shinjuku which is £157 for 6 nights which looks appealing. There are other hotels that I've looked at which are normal rooms but they start at around £300.

Anyway. Onto my bike point. I hear that Japan is a really safe place and that people lock up their fancy bikes with only a tiny cable lock. This is during the day though. Does anyone know where I could store my bike if I stayed at one of these capsule hotels? (I know that this question needs an answer from someone with experience but I thought I'd ask anyway).

Cheers.

I can't imagine its much fun in capsule hotels. I dunno if they're used by anyone other than drunk salarymen and really poor country folk who've moved into the city (read an article about that, quite depressing).

I stayed here:
http://www.sakura-hotel.co.jp/
Its not terribly cheap but quite nice and they have a communal downstairs area which you could possibly put a bike in overnight.

ooops. Just checked the room rates. Probably out of your budget. Sorry.

That doesn't look too bad. It's just under £50 a night so it'd work out at £300 for the whole time. I'll keep it in mind if I end up increasing my budget.

why stay at a hotel?
K's house hostel is simply amazing:
http://kshouse.jp/tokyo-e/index.html
most places will oblige taking your bike in, if not, use a public locking place, and it will be fine.
Also it will be humid like hell.
I mean crazy humid, like sweat dripping out of your eyeballs.

have fun though, I'm jealous, today I was looking through my photos, and wishing I could go back....

Also Ask corny as he has just stayed at K's house with a bike.

I've stayed here in the past:
http://www.kimi-ryokan.jp/Chage.html
cheap and clean
it's in Ikebukuro so not that far from Shinjuku/Shibuya
single is about £35 a night
but it's very popular - u have to book well in advance

can't help about securing bikes

+1 to the humidity in August - the heat will be crippling
can u not go in september instead?

Check to see if you can stay in a guest house opposed to hotel or hostel, nothing better than sleeping on tatami, and if its family run, you get to meet friendly family. Although not sure how many there will be in central Tokyo.

Breakfast recommendation: Natto. Its the Japanese equivalent of marmite, and frankly delicious.

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Don't bother trying natto - it's absolutely disgusting.

Marmite, however, is lovely.

+1 to the humidity in August - the heat will be crippling
can u not go in september instead?

It looks like it'll be September now anyway so that's good.

Breakfast recommendation: Natto. Its the Japanese equivalent of marmite, and frankly delicious.

I'll give it a try.

Another thing. Is there any secret to navigating around? It looks like a complete mind fuck on google maps and I don't think street signs will help me much.

Rusty pm'd reply to you re accomodation.
Buy a good laminated foldable
map, got mine from stanhope/Stanford down in covent garden/leicester sq, it'll set you right. Navigating is easy enough big major roads have numbers on them, and place names you can use them to get to the major destinations, you may have some problems finding smaller side streets but everyone does so don't worry too much.

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Don't bother trying natto - it's absolutely disgusting.

Marmite, however, is lovely.

Natto is amazing i had it for dinner last night! Natto omelette ftw!!!!!!

Bikes DO get stolen in Japan, and it seems to be getting more common. That said if you take sensible precautions and lock in a busy area they shouldbe ok. It certainly doesn't seem to be the problem that it is in london (reading some of the other threads) so basically i wouldn't worry too much.

All roadsigns are in english so navigations not much of a problem. A map should do the trick.

Are you just going to Tokyo, or planning on visiting anywhere else?

I stayed here when i went http://www.asiacenter.or.jp/eng/ worked about just over £300 for the week. Good location, inbetween Roppongi and Aoyama. Shibuya was two stops away if I remember rightly.

As for bike security, it was pretty relaxed when I went in 2008

sweet

The security appear to be akin to the Netherlands, bike thieves are pretty low (even though they do exist), whether London's blown out of control.

Netherlands? thieves pretty low? I heard that you have to keep buying your bike over and over again!

find this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE4fvwTBtno