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Question about Yokohama, Japan Hotels

Posted by (Austin, TX) on

It is amazing how it happens. First you know nothing to almost nothing about a place you are going to visit and then slowly you learn. It starts becoming familiar.

I will be staying in Yokohama before my cruise.

I have the APA Hotel and Resort Yokohama Bay Tower booked. Really like the place and the area. Close to Bashamici Station on the Minatomirai Line

But I have recently discovered in my research JR East Hotel Mets Yokohama . Like what I read about this hotel and I think it would be a little less money.

Love that it is very close to Yokohama Station. Wouldn't it be wonderful to arrive at Yokohama Station and just walk a short ways to your hotel. Three minutes they say. Over.a walkway and you are there.

But APA will be closer to the cruise port although it will not be all that difficult to get to the cruise port from JR Hotel.

Is anyone familiar with either one of these two hotels? How about the area that I would be staying in.

And if you would just like to offer some information about Yokohama, feel free to do so.

I have discovered the Bayside Blue Bus that leaves from Yokohama Station and takes me around the city.

Have a long way to go but it is coming together.

Posted by
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Boston Phil , it was very easy and not expensive to take a taxi from Yokohama station to the cruise port. It would be just as easy from your hotel near the station.

Posted by
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The APA Hotel is near the convention center where I attended a conference about 10 year ago. I remember that it was one of the recommended conference hotels and I don't remember any complaints about it. I stayed somewhere cheaper. If you are planning to take the subway into Tokyo for sightseeing, either hotel should be fine. The JR East is a few minutes/subway stops closer to Tokyo but not a big difference. Yokohama station is huge and busy; Bashamici Station might be easier to find your way around. If you are taking the subway from the airport, then Yokahama station would be easier but there is also a reasonably priced limo/shuttle from either airport, I believe, to the APA hotel. I believe the Bayside Blue Bus you mention only takes you around Yokahama so if your sightseeing will be in Tokyo that won't help. I am excited for you about your trip!

Posted by
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Thank you, Carol

I plan to take.a taxi from Yokohama Station to my hotel. and maybe from my hotel to the cruise port.

I am getting excited.

Posted by
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Hello CD in DC

thank you for your input.

I have no plans to go into Tokyo. Not an easy decision but I will only be in Yokohama three nights total. I will actually only have one full day of sightseeing and I am choosing to stay in Yokohama. Because of age and mobility challenges, I hve to set limits for myself.

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Carol

If you come back to this page. I just read in my research that most taxi drivers in Yokohama do not speak English. Did you have any trouble finding a taxi driver who understood you?

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