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Dear all, I have been traveling extensively in my life but I still have one dream to achieve, visiting Tokyo and Kyoto. I have vivid memories of reading the Golden Pavilion from Yukio Mishima. I would need the advice of our fellow Japanese purists for a s... 

In Kyoto we stayed in the Hyatt Regency Hotel. It was a wonderful stay. I would definitely recommend! In TKY we stayed at the "The Tokyo Station Hotel". The stay was wonderful here as well! There are so many hotels out there in the two cities mentioned. M... 

It has very spacious rooms and the hotel is conveniently situated atop many metro lines so traveling in the city is pretty easy. You’ll have a wonderful time there. If you decide to buy a Grand Seiko don’t forget that atop the 10% tax free there is a 5% t... 

Before boarding the Shinkansen for Kyoto get your bento box from the basement floor of Daimaru mall at the train station to have a nice feast in the train. There is an unbelievable array of food in basement stores of malls, and unlike European malls, thes... 

but I have read 'The Temple of the Golden Pavilion' and I have visited Japan! My suggestion would be to stay in radically different kinds of swanky places in the two cities: in Tokyo a high-rise city view hotel in like the Park Hyatt or the Andaz (where I... 

Thanks so much 🙏

...very convenient to subway and not far (a bus ride) to Shibuya or Ebisu. But that was near our old neighborhood in Hiroo so it was familiar for us...