i think go toilet or buy food also hv to wait 1 hour

i tried jalan.net, and those listed hotels seems more expensive than what i got from booking.com...there're some hotels still charging only 5% tax instead of 15%.

i picked a few, compared to their own web booking, still showing booking.com is cheaper. but those hotels i'm looking at were already budget hotels by nature, but with private bathroom attached instead of sharing. speaking of offer for early booking, seems like agoda is doing promotions at the moment.
i went to try out the english, cannot understand wall of japanese texts... in fact, booking.com and agoda seems to show a lot more hotels, and seems like agoda is doing huge discount for many hotels at the moment.

regarding pay later and free cancellation (before certain date), booking.com also the same, just give credit card number and that's it. i used booking.com during my last visit at march and i only pay full payment upon check in. i even use my debit card and it went through during online booking lol...
i think shouldn't be cheap, my visit during march was like RM3k for 2 ppl flying AA (MAS was RM4k+) as i booked the flight like end of last year.

but definitely no where near as expensive as year end during x'mas and new year.

Planning to stay near Tsukiji Market so that don't need to hire a taxi. Any recommendation? Saw one member mentioned APA hotel but it's out of my budget. Anything less than RM300 for a room for 2?

As long as it is walking distance to the fish market....say <15minutes?

As long as it is walking distance to the fish market....say <15minutes?

i tried jalan.net in japanese, and you're right, i was definitely surprised! i'm surprised that booking.com is still MUCH cheaper when i search my previously stayed hotel.

and i find it strange that the hotel i stayed previously, using jalan.net in japanese to search for a later date, and found out no informations later of the year means i can't book those dates some other hotels have the info displayed throughout the year though. so not entirely reliable.

thanks for your offer on helping on booking but i don't feel like having a stranger to help me on something involving money transactions, and hotel booking is a pretty personal thing. on top of it and if anything happen, i'll probably have to deal with japanese language communication, and have to come back to you again. =.=
you sure 6800yen is final price, inclusive tax?

tried to search for that hotel, only a few days in a month is at that price (more like 7000+yen for double room), mostly sunday night and check out on monday. the rest average at 10,000+yen (some dates even up to 20,000yen!).

well, my verdict on this matter is that, using international booking website is more reliable and so much easier to deal with english if one don't understand japanese. even if jalan.net offering lower rate than international booking website, most people don't like to deal with hassles.

i browsed through the calendar, can definitely see all the pricing for each day (and rooms available). definitely not at 6800yen or i'm just dumb to navigate through that website.
now that's a great price you grabbed there, but as you mentioned, it's a special price and most probably only very limited room available at that price within very limited promotion time frame.

if i'm you, i'd still go for somewhere less expensive (and perhaps much less busy!), trying to search for a time frame within 20th dec ~ 30th dec 2013, there're many business hotels offering at much lower price per night, some are at 7000yen per night and to me that's a huge savings like 3000yen (RM90) per day compared to 10,000yen per day. but that's just me though.

Thanks so much for the link!!! It is so much cheaper than the hotel's website. I'm planning to go on 6th Feb. Can't read chinese or japanese. But the English website says it is only 5800yen!!! Should be the same price as the Japanese version right?

Haha too excited. Supposed to be 2nd June

It seems my question was left out.

Few dozen pages back, or maybe in V3 or earlier, got some pipu said went to Japan without Visa. Got pulled out from the regular immigration queue into interview room, check documents, etc, but eventually was allowed in.
Last April when I went, queue right behind a huge Thai tour group, ohmygawd 4 out of 5 people in the queue never fill in form properly