best hotels world stayed fabulous two-bedroom suite amazing mandarin oriental tokyo week july, summarize experience simply stating best hotels world rate service finest encountered travels.we enjoyed great flight excellent service singapore airlines best airlines world los angeles tokyo, arrived narita airport people hotel__<c7>_<e9>_ greet__<c7> service gate got plane helped negotiate airport quickly customs/immigration mandarin__<c7>_<e9>_ deluxe van hotel, experience shown expensive services worth paying arriving big complex airport non-english speaking country, departed narita 6:30pm drive took approximately 1 hour 15 minutes, senior guest relations officer takashi kurono met arrived escorted directly room took care check-in procedure, takashi terrific gave good advice finalizing plans touring tokyo, followed-up meeting excellent data maps help self-guided tours, visited famed ginza area night.this trip japan rank fascinating places visited, tokyo amazing best described cleaner newer new york city filled extremely nice respectful people, no problem getting city used guide/translator driver day half visiting artists remote studios, trains subways fairly easy use nice local person help figure nuances ticket machine location train, recommend spending day using yamanote line train makes oval loop city, runs ground tokyo riding, began 9:30am avoid earlier rush hour period walking 10 minutes hotel tokyo station bought day__<c7> tickets boarded train, got walking tours shinbashi shibuya harajuku shinjuku stations way looping starting point late night, great dinner view new york bar grill 52nd floor park hyatt hotel shinzuku translation__<c7> filmed recommend watching trip tokyo, mitsukoshi department store located hotel favorite city, visited ginza area times great shopping restaurants interesting sites like sony building museums, took subway ginza stop right hotel, imperial palace garden short 15 minute walk hotel beautiful see.we liked visiting following areas ueno park asakusa akihabara roppongi hills hamarikyu garden shiba park tokyo tower boat cruise simuda river.had room service hotel morning number nights service food terrific, tried sense restaurant night great, disappointment hotel currency exchange charge 7.5 highest remember encountering hotel, recommend walking bank door hotel charge 1 travelers checks 2 usd conversion japanese yen.following stay tokyo planned shinkansen bullet train tokyo station osaka, hotel took care booking acquiring class green car tickets newest trains nozomi 700 series provide excellent 2 ride, arranged deluxe van station amazingly bellmen escorted chaotic station train pulled heavy bags van way train, arrived station 30 minutes departure line boarding train car able store 3 heavy bags slot car, mandarin arranged osaka hotel ritz carlton meet train platform arrived hotel, spend 1.5 days touring osaka went guide train kyoto day trip repeated process nara day, stayed osaka kyoto nara able fly direct osaka kansai airport america sfo united airlines good level singapore seemingly unrelated quality domestic service,