Imperial Hotel, Tokyo: Pre-Cruise Splurge Review

Under one roof

The Imperial is the splurge with a pool and a tea room under one roof. Its page lists French and Japanese dining, the TOKO-AN tea ceremony room, a shopping arcade, and a pool, saunas and a fitness gym.

Our pin for the hotel is a block-level match, not a rooftop, so treat the distances as rough: Harumi is about 3.3 road miles away, roughly 8 minutes with no traffic, and the meter should land near ¥2,400 (about US$15) by our arithmetic.

The page we read gives no check-in time, breakfast terms or parking.

Book it for the pool and the tea room, not for a firm distance, and ask the hotel for the times it doesn't print.

Book it if

You want a pool and a tea room, not a firm distance
A tea ceremony room is part of the plan
A shopping arcade in the building suits you

Look elsewhere if

You need check-in and breakfast terms in advance.
You want an exact distance to a terminal.
You'd rather be near a terminal.

Pool and Tea

TOKO-AN, French and Japanese dining and a pool

The evening

Pool · Food or drinks on site

French and Japanese dining, the TOKO-AN tea ceremony room and a shopping arcade, plus a pool, saunas and a fitness gym.

Source: imperialhotel.co.jp

Breakfast

Not stated

Breakfast isn't covered on the Imperial's page.

Address

Uchisaiwaicho, near Hibiya

1-1 Uchisaiwai-cho 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8558
Hotel page

Awards

None printed

Japan has no mandatory star system. Imperial Hotel's page we read printed no star, MICHELIN Key or Forbes rating, and we read none of those guides' pages — so we claim none.

The Night

A pool, a tea ceremony, then the taxi

A night at the Imperial Hotel before the ship, from the hotel's own page.

Evening

Pool, tea room, dinner

French and Japanese dining, the TOKO-AN tea ceremony room and a shopping arcade, plus a pool, saunas and a fitness gym.

Before bed

Have the concierge book the taxi

Ask the concierge to book the taxi — and leave the TOKO-AN tea room for the evening before.

Sail morning

Breakfast is unstated

Breakfast isn't covered on the Imperial's page.

Heading out

To Harumi

About 3.3 road miles to Harumi by our routing, a rough figure.

Boarding

Bags, and the car

The Imperial ties no cruise parking to a room. The terminals' own lots are on the parking page.

Inventory

What the Imperial lists, and what it skips

Green means the page prints it, gold means a catch or extra cost, grey means silence.

RoomsNot stated

RestaurantFrench and Japanese dining

Bar or drinksNone listed

Spa or poolPool, saunas, fitness gym

BreakfastNot stated

Airport transferNone printed

ParkingNot stated

Distance to a terminal~3.3 road mi to Harumi, our routing

No Station Named

The page names no station, and our pin is only a block match

By rail

No ride documented

The Imperial's page names no station, so we found no published line from the hotel to a terminal station — our map pin is also only a block match.

Source: imperialhotel.co.jp

By taxi

Our arithmetic

About ¥2,400 by our arithmetic: 3.3 road miles at ¥500 (about US$3) for the first kilometre and ¥100 (about US$1) per 232 m after, on the Tokyo taxi association's tariff. Tolls, traffic-time charges and the 20% late-night surcharge come on top.

Source: taxi-tokyo.or.jp

Parking

Not for the cruise

Parking isn't mentioned on the Imperial's page.

Source: imperialhotel.co.jp

Driving in? Tokyo cruise parking lists the terminals' own lots; for the line-by-line terminal split, read the guide.

To Harumi

Uchisaiwaicho to Harumi, about 3.3 road miles from a rough pin

This hotelSplurge hotels, tap one to open itCruise terminalStraight line to the ship, not a routeReal geography: NOAA’s GSHHG shoreline, generalised; reclaimed land at Odaiba, Aomi and Harumi is a rough outline sketched around our pins, not surveyed, and piers and canals aren’t drawn. Map pins from the Esri World Geocoder, address matches, not surveyed points. The terminal pins are Esri’s point for each terminal’s street address, not a berth; Daikoku Pier is the Esri point for Daikoku-futo.

Choose where you start. From Uchisaiwaicho the ship is a taxi down to the bay.

Leg 1 · Haneda Airport to the hotel

Not stated

The Imperial's page lists no airport ride.

Leg 2 · Hotel to the ship

No ride documented

The Imperial's page names no station, so we found no published line from the hotel to a terminal station — our map pin is also only a block match.

Our routing: about 3.3 road miles (5.4 km) to Harumi, 8 minutes with no traffic.

From HND without a hotel ride

No airport car is listed here. From Hibiya, the airport page has the rail and taxi figures for Haneda and Narita.

Leg 1 · Narita Airport to the hotel

Not stated

Nor for Narita.

Leg 2 · Hotel to the ship

No ride documented

Same finding as from Haneda — no station named, so no line to trace.

Our routing: about 3.3 road miles (5.4 km) to Harumi, 8 minutes with no traffic.

From NRT without a hotel ride

Narita is about 44 road miles from the Tokyo terminals and 61 from Osanbashi by our routing, so it's the N'EX, a limousine bus or a long taxi. The airport page covers Imperial Hotel.

Flying in on sail day? Skip the night and time the ride against your check-in window.

Distance

~3.3 road mi, our routing

The hotel gives no cruise figure — and our pin is a block-level match. On our routing Harumi is roughly 3.3 road miles (5.4 km) away, 8 minutes with no traffic.

Source: router.project-osrm.org

To the ship

Ship ride not stated

The Imperial lists no ride to the ship. A taxi from Uchisaiwaicho to Harumi is about ¥2,400 on the meter by our arithmetic, before tolls.

Source: imperialhotel.co.jp

Rough Pin

Treat the distances as rough

Worth knowing

A pool, saunas and a fitness gym are listed.
Our map pin is a block match, so the distance is approximate.
Tokyo's accommodation tax is ¥100 or ¥200 (about US$1) per person per night by room price, as the press reports it; we didn't read the official page.