Lonely Planet Review

It ain't called the Asakusa View for nothing, and if you're keen on staying in the area it's by far the ritziest place in the neighbourhood. While the rooms aren't particularly striking, they're spacious and, as the name would suggest, have floor-to-ceiling windows.

See if you can snag a room on the higher floors, which afford better views of Senso-ji or Ueno Park, depending on which side of the hotel you're on. If you can swing it, it's worth spending up for one of the five Japanese rooms or a more luxurious deluxe double decorated in red and accented with antique-style brass handles. Everything in the public areas of the hotel is lavishly designed, from the lacquer-style walls of the elevators to the gorgeous Japanese garden on the 6th floor. The hotel's Japanese cypress and granite baths are worthy of a long soak. The pool is almost as inviting as the baths, enclosed as it is underneath a curved, sloping sunroom.