Lonely Planet Review

This shiny box of a hotel just next door to Shibuya station is great for solo travellers looking for a convenient, central spot to sleep in a hopping neighbourhood. You'll want to bring earplugs, though, to escape the cartoonish feeling that you're sleeping astride the railway tracks.

Super-convenient, Shibuya-central and squarely comfortable, the Hotel Mets is strategically located adjacent to the hub that is Shibuya station. Owned and efficiently run by Japan Railways, this hotel places you smack in the centre of the action...including the train traffic. With the tracks running along one side of the hotel, light sleepers will want to book rooms on the other, quieter side, which also has views of the neighbourhood and Tokyo Tower. The vast majority of rooms are bright, relatively spacious singles, since this place caters mostly to business travellers. It's worth laying out the extra yen for a deluxe single, so you can stretch out in a semi-double bed. The hotel has five nonsmoking floors, free broadband internet access, and that rare bonus of a breakfast buffet included.