Ueno retains the atmosphere of a traditional downtown area. Ueno is a popular area where you can enjoy cherry blossoms in Ueno Onshi Park in spring, beautiful lotus flowers in Shinobazuno Pond in summer, autumn leaves in fall, and museums in winter, escaping the cold. Hotel Toganeya is conveniently located just a 3-minute walk from Ueno Station.
After descending the pedestrian deck directly connected to the station, a short walk will bring you to the signboard of “Tokaneya Hotel”. After entering the entrance and passing through a straight passageway, you will find yourself in a lobby with a modern Japanese style and a relaxed atmosphere. Small articles arranged on shelves, a beautifully tiled reception desk depicting Nishikigoi carp, and wallpaper used in temples and shrines in Kyoto. Just by being in the lobby, you can feel the Japanese atmosphere everywhere.
Waiting area in front of the front desk
The front desk, where foreign guests often take commemorative photos.
You can take sightseeing maps and information magazines of Tokyo home with you.
Ueno, where Hotel Toganeya is located, is the perfect base for a round-the-Japan trip, as it is only a 15-minute train ride to Tokyo Station, the largest Shinkansen station in Tokyo, a 45-minute train ride to Haneda Airport, and a 45-minute ride to Narita Airport without changing trains on the Keisei Skyliner. In Ueno, Toganeya offers its guests the opportunity to leave their luggage with no restrictions on the number of pieces or time limit. Many guests use this service to travel around Japan and return to Toganeya at the end of their trip to purchase a large quantity of souvenirs in Ueno. It is a very nice point for travelers to be able to leave their large suitcases and set out on a round-the-Japan trip with only the bare minimum of travel luggage.
Some of the luggage actually checked in by customers
One of the joys of staying at Toganeya is that you can wonder what kind of room you will be staying in this time, as the interior of Toganeya has different colors of wallpaper on different floors and all bed-throughs are different for each room. After the cleaning staff has finished cleaning the rooms, the front desk staff performs a final check before letting guests in, ensuring that the rooms are thoroughly clean and comfortable. Each room is equipped with a WiFi router, so the WiFi signal is strong. Thanks to this, you can enjoy sightseeing in Tokyo to the fullest during the day and spend your evenings relaxing and watching Netflix in your room without any problems at all.
The most popular deluxe room
Fresh green and linen-leaf patterned wallpaper on the 5th floor. Plenty of hangers.
Double room:the most common type of room available
Handmade bed-through by the owner’s wife
If you are in doubt about what to eat in Ueno, go ask the staff at Toganeya for advice. At Toganeya, the staff has prepared both Japanese and English versions of the restaurant map, and will recommend the best places to eat according to each customer’s tastes and mood. In addition to these customer recommendations, Toganeya shares with its staff all the information they obtain while talking with customers. At the root of this is the desire held by all the staff to “make the travel destination feel like home.
Toganeya has a high rate of repeat guests, with some guests staying three times a year. Although Toganeya is already loved by its guests, the manager says, “I would like to make an effort to save staff time and effort so that we can spend more time with our guests. The manager, who says with a smile that he also wants to improve his language skills for customer service and that he will always help customers with requests that do not require money, as well as from the staff, who treat customers with a big smile, that they “love customers and can’t help but love them.
