Hey guys!
I'm here with Melodee and she's been very kind
and she's going to give us a tour of her hotel room
that she's staying in here in Tokyo.
I thought you guys might be interested in what hotels look like here in Japan.
Spoiler! Most are pretty Western.
You just use the card for here and...
Tap!
Kind of like how you do it with the trains.
It opens the door,
and then all the lights are off...
but you just slide it in and all the lights turn on.
And same thing, you just need to remember to take this out.
That's crazy!
Yeah! That's awesome.
It turns online the lights in the bathroom and everything.
It's like a magic little card.
A mirror right off the bat, which is nice.
I always like full length mirrors.
It's just a one room hotel room, with a bathroom right here.
Yeah, I'll open it up.
Woo~ fancy bathroom.
It's a mirror of us.
This is super nice and fancy looking.
It's all tiled and-
I love how Japanese sinks are very huge, though.
Because I feel like they're a lot deeper over here in Japan.
This is plenty of room to do everything you need to do,
like our makeup and stuff.
Yep, a huge mirror for your makeup or whatever, if you want to.
It's got nice lighting in here.
I feel really weird wearing shoes in here.
Because you take off your shoes everywhere...
Yeah, yeah true.
There're slippers and everything in here.
There are like four pairs of slippers.
Oh yeah, slippers in the closet.
So if you want to wear them...
If you want to wear slippers you can,
which we normally would be doing. We just kinda stopped back here.
I'm using a pair over there.
But yeah they have like four pairs of slippers.
Yeah, lots of nice slippers for everyone.
Yep, and then I just have my stuff hung up here.
Melodee's fancy, beautiful clothes.
Not much but yeah, just for this short trip.
You get a full bathtub, which is nice.
There are some hotels in Japan, especially if they're cheaper,
where the only way to bathe is a communal bathing room.
So you kind of need to check before you make a reservation, if that's something you're not okay with.
You might want to avoid one of those places.
I've been to one. I've stayed in one before.
Oh, really?
Yeah, the first time I came to Tokyo.
I came with a couple friends and we all got rooms together,
and it ended up being $30 a night [per person].
So that was a lot cheaper, sharing rooms and stuff.
But it was a communal bath.
Oh no!
Something to make sure you check before you actually reserve it, then.
I took a bath with a lot of old Japanese ladies and stuff.
Yeah, so that was interesting.
And actually,
if you go to nice hotels, too,
especially like a ryokan, which is kind of like a getaway hotel,
they also have communal baths, which are more like onsen,
and they're all gender segregated.
So I always thought that was weird
because if I want to go on vacation with my husband, then like-
Oh, right! You wanna go together, right?
Yeah!
You can get one of those rooms where there's an onsen connected to your room.
Right, you can get your own one, which is really expensive.
I like how they have shampoo and conditioner and everything here.
I just brought my treatment and stuff.
Otherwise I just use what they have because it's pretty good.
It's pretty simple.
With two beds.
Yeah... I'm the only one staying but there's two beds for some reason.
A little vanity.
Yeah, for your makeup and stuff.
Oh, nice! Okay.
There's a TV.
Have you even turned it on?
No, I haven't.
Yeah, I never turn the TVs on, either.
I like Japanese TV. Their TV programs are a lot more fun to watch in my opinion.
Yeah, they can be really crazy.
We don't even know how to turn it on.
I'm sure there's internet here.
Yeah, there is!
A nice little table in front of the window.
At this one you get the tops of other buildings,
which isn't the most beautiful thing ever.
But that tower over there's really cool.
But depending on the room you can get a lot of great views as well.
Melodee said- You said you stayed here before and had a really nice...
I created a video of me doing a tour of another room of this place, actually.
Oh, okay! Well I'll link that here.
For that one you could actually see soccer players playing on top of a building.
It's actually really cool.
They're way high up on the building.
It's little kids playing soccer. It's really cool.
Omg, that's awesome
You can seeing the Shibuya crossing, too.
Oh wow.
It's really cool to watch, especially at nighttime.
So we can check that out later.
That's so much cooler. Sorry, in my video you just get to see this.
Sorry guys!
Go watch her video.
I should have reserved a better place!
No, OMG!
But it's still Shibuya, so...
Oh, yeah! This is in Shibuya. We didn't say that until now.
So even if you stay at a really fancy hotel,
chances are your room is going to be a little bit smaller than you're used to in America.
Even in a motel in America for $30 a night,
you still have a decent sized room.
But that's what you get for being in Tokyo.
You're in a really crowded place. They don't really have a lot of room.
But you're in a very convenient place.
You can get everywhere from here.
If you're visiting here for the first time, I highly recommend checking out this area.
Yeah! It's Shibuya.
It's very convenient and helpful.
I'll put a link down in the description of a place you can look for hotels in English.
I think they're in English.
I have a good website if you want to look for a place you can book hotels and stuff.
But the price range is really, really varied.
You can stay in anything from like...
A capsule hotel or a hostel for like $30 on your own,
all the way up to... some places are like $700 a night? $1,000?
Like, crazy. There's a hugh difference.
I mean it just depends on your standard of living and how much you're willing to spend.
And if you're just staying here and doing mostly shopping,
you can just stay at a less expensive place and then spend more on shopping
and going out an actually experiencing Tokyo.
Whatever works for you.
Yeah, I mean if you come here and you spend all of your time in your hotel
then maybe you're doing it wrong.
Well, thank you so much for giving me a tour here!
Oh you're welcome!
I'll see you guys later! Bye guys!
SHIBUYA
It's like the perfect view, right?
This is amazing!
And there's the soccer you were telling me about!
The rooftop soccer.
Ha! I do have it in my video! Yesss
Crazy awesome.
You can pretty much get a view of the entire Shibuya here.
Yeah, that's why I like it.
That's so neat.
This is just the hallway.
Yay it's the good one!
Wow, you can see outside!
There's a chair! Why is there are chair in the elevator?
This is actually a lifesaver. I actually sat on this thing!
My feet were dying.
So it does help.
Ohh that makes sense.
That's so cool.
It's kind of like the Tokyo Tower in here.
Well that was fun!
Thank you!