This page contains promotions (affiliate links) (Editorial & ad policy)
Shimbashi, Shiodome and Odaiba hotels: 5 picked from 105
Approximate, at the rate on 2026-10-02. You pay in yen.
- Where to stay in Shimbashi, Tokyo: five hotels from Shiodome to Odaiba
- The Yurikamome line links Shimbashi, Shiodome and Hamamatsucho to Odaiba
- La Vista has a hot-spring bath; Grand Nikko has fluent English staff
The five
| Best for | Where to book | Score | Weeknight (per person) | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small 63-room hotel rated 4.83, near Onarimon — if you can’t decide | Hotel 1899 Tokyo Check price |
85/100 | ¥18,000–44,000 | ¥19,000–44,000 |
| Natural hot-spring bath with a view, 1 min from Shijo-mae | La Vista Tokyo Bay Check price |
84/100 | ¥16,000–25,000 | ¥22,000–45,000 |
| Business hotel with a big bath, 4 min from Hamamatsucho | Tosho Kaikan Check price |
76/100 | — | — |
| In Odaiba, linked to Daiba station, fluent English staff | Grand Nikko Tokyo Daiba Check price |
73/100 | ¥22,000–43,000 | ¥26,000–61,000 |
| Every room on floor 26 or higher, 3 min from JR Shimbashi | The Royal Park Hotel Iconic Tokyo Shiodome Check price |
73/100 | ¥22,000–41,000 | ¥24,000–48,000 |
Prices are the cheapest per person found on Rakuten Travel for Wednesdays and Saturdays between 2026-11-07 – 2026-12-30, for 2 adults in one room (checked 2026-10-31). They move daily — the link shows live prices.
The booking links go to Agoda, which shows today’s price and lets you pay in your own currency. Its price can differ from the Rakuten Travel figures above.
Small 63-room hotel rated 4.83, near Onarimon
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.83/5 (349) · Agoda 9.2/10 (804) · 1,153 in total
- Check-in 15:00
- Parking ¥2,500 per night by reservation, up to 24 hours (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- 4.83 on Rakuten — tied for the highest of the 35 that qualified; breakfast also rated 4.83.
- About six minutes from exit A4 at Onarimon, about ten from the Karasumori exit at Shimbashi.
- Check-out 12:00. 63 rooms.
- About ¥18,000–44,000 per person on a weekday with breakfast, ¥19,000–44,000 on a Saturday — the cheapest of the five on a Saturday.
Getting there: About six minutes on foot from exit A4 of Onarimon station (Toei Mita line); about ten minutes from the Karasumori exit of Shimbashi station (JR, Toei Asakusa line, Ginza line).
Language and payment: English support, card acceptance and tattoo rules are not published, so ask when you book. No communal bath is listed.
-
Right for: Wanting a small, calm hotel with the best reviews here.
-
Not for: Only 349 reviews so far — a thinner sample than the others — and Shimbashi station is ten minutes away on foot.
-
Worth knowing: Last check-in is midnight.
Score breakdown — 85/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★☆☆ | Rakuten shows no category scores, so this is our own baseline rating |
| Value for money | ★★★★☆ | ¥18,000–44,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 85% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 12:00; about six minutes from exit A4 at Onarimon (Toei Mita line); about ten minutes from the Karasumori exit at JR Shimbashi; breakfast rated 4.83; 63 rooms. |
| Trust | ★★★★★ | 4.83 across 349 reviews (Rakuten Travel 349) |
| Only here | ★★★☆☆ | A small hotel of 63 rooms whose 4.83 average ties with Park Hotel Tokyo as the highest of the 35 that qualified. |
Natural hot-spring bath with a view, 1 min from Shijo-mae
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.59/5 (1,771) · Agoda 9.0/10 (12,318) · 14,089 in total
- The bath looks over the night view of the bay
- Shijo-mae is the Yurikamome station for the Toyosu fish market
- Breakfast rated 4.68
- Check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00
Why it made the five
- A natural hot-spring bath with a view, an open-air bath and a sauna.
- About one minute from Shijo-mae station on the Yurikamome.
- About ¥16,000–25,000 per person on a weekday with breakfast — the cheapest of the five on a weekday; ¥22,000–45,000 on a Saturday.
- 4.59 across 1,771 reviews; a free late-night snack.
Getting there: About one minute on foot from Shijo-mae station (Yurikamome); the listing gives about thirty minutes from Tokyo Station and about forty from Haneda airport.
Language and payment: English support and card acceptance are not published, so ask when you book. The baths are communal and nude in the Japanese way — if you have a tattoo, ask the hotel before you count on using them.
-
Right for: Ending a day in Tokyo in hot-spring water.
-
Not for: Out on the Toyosu waterfront, a long way from Shimbashi and Ginza. The bath is shared.
-
Worth knowing: Adults pay a ¥150 bathing tax on top of the room rate.
Score breakdown — 84/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★☆☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.59 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★★★ | ¥16,000–25,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 76% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 11:00; a natural hot-spring bath with a view, an open-air bath and a sauna; about one minute from Shijo-mae on the Yurikamome; about forty minutes from Haneda and thirty from Tokyo Station; a free late-night snack; last check-in 5am; 558 rooms. |
| Trust | ★★★☆☆ | 4.59 across 1,771 reviews (Rakuten Travel 1,771) |
| Only here | ★★★★★ | One of only two of the 35 with a natural hot-spring bath and an open-air bath — the other is Villa Fontaine Grand Tokyo Ariake — and it is billed as a hot spring with a night view. |
Business hotel with a big bath, 4 min from Hamamatsucho
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.64/5 (230)
- Hamamatsucho is where the monorail from Haneda comes in
- Check-in 14:00, check-out 10:00
- 7 free parking spaces, first come first served (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- About four minutes from the north exit of Hamamatsucho station.
- A large communal bath.
- Six minutes from Daimon, five from Takeshiba on the Yurikamome.
- 4.64 across 230 reviews; 87 rooms. No rooms came up in our search window.
Getting there: About four minutes on foot from the north exit of Hamamatsucho station; six minutes from Daimon; five minutes from Takeshiba (Yurikamome).
Language and payment: English support, card acceptance and tattoo rules are not published, so ask when you book. The bath is communal and nude in the Japanese way — if you have a tattoo, ask the hotel first.
-
Right for: Staying by Hamamatsucho station with a big bath to end the day.
-
Not for: Last check-in is 23:00, early for a late flight. No rooms came up in our search window.
-
Worth knowing: Last check-in is 23:00.
Score breakdown — 76/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★☆☆ | The categories Rakuten does show (room and others) average 4.63 |
| Value for money | ★★★☆☆ | No rooms came up in our search window, so we could not check the price — this is our own baseline rating |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | About four minutes from the north exit of Hamamatsucho; a business hotel with a large communal bath; six minutes from Daimon and five from Takeshiba on the Yurikamome; 87 rooms. |
| Trust | ★★★★☆ | 4.64 across 230 reviews (Rakuten Travel 230) |
| Only here | ★★★☆☆ | A business hotel with a large communal bath four minutes from Hamamatsucho, rated 4.64. |
In Odaiba, linked to Daiba station, fluent English staff
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.58/5 (9,849) · Agoda 9.1/10 (11,105) · 20,954 in total
- Check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00
- Parking ¥2,000 per stay (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- Connected to Daiba station; fifteen minutes from Shimbashi on the Yurikamome.
- About twenty minutes from Haneda by limousine bus.
- Most staff speak near-native, fluent English, per Rakuten’s listing.
- 4.58 across 9,849 reviews — the most of the eight we scored.
Getting there: Connected to Daiba station (Yurikamome), fifteen minutes from Shimbashi; about twenty minutes from Haneda by limousine bus, and about twenty from Shinagawa on the Odaiba Rainbow Bus.
Language and payment: Rakuten’s listing says most of the staff speak near-native, fluent English. Card acceptance is not published, so ask when you book. No shared bath, so tattoos do not come up.
- Right for: Building your trip around days in Odaiba.
- Not for: Fifteen minutes on the Yurikamome to Shimbashi and Ginza. No bath house. Saturdays run up to about ¥61,000 per person.
Score breakdown — 73/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★☆☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.56 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★☆☆ | ¥22,000–43,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 101% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 11:00; connected to Daiba station on the Yurikamome, fifteen minutes from Shimbashi; about twenty minutes from Haneda by limousine bus; most staff speak near-native, fluent English; last check-in 5am; 882 rooms. |
| Trust | ★★★☆☆ | 4.58 across 9,849 reviews (Rakuten Travel 9,849) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | Connected to Daiba station in Odaiba, with 9,849 reviews — the most of any hotel we scored. |
Every room on floor 26 or higher, 3 min from JR Shimbashi
The Royal Park Hotel Iconic Tokyo Shiodome
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.57/5 (4,643) · Agoda 9.0/10 (11,727) · 16,370 in total
- Shiodome station has both the Oedo line and the Yurikamome
- Check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00
- 192 parking spaces, ¥100 per hour for guests, first come first served (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- About three minutes from the Shiodome exit of JR Shimbashi; one minute from Shiodome station.
- Every room on the 26th floor or higher.
- Thirteen minutes to Senso-ji on the Asakusa line.
- 4.57 across 4,643 reviews; 480 rooms.
Getting there: About three minutes on foot from the Shiodome exit of JR Shimbashi; about five minutes from the subway at Shimbashi; about one minute from Shiodome station (Oedo line, Yurikamome).
Language and payment: English support, card acceptance and tattoo rules are not published, so ask when you book. No shared bath, so tattoos do not come up.
-
Right for: Wanting both a short walk from the station and a high-floor view.
-
Not for: No bath house.
-
Worth knowing: Last check-in is midnight.
Score breakdown — 73/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★☆☆ | The categories Rakuten does show (room and others) average 4.52 |
| Value for money | ★★★☆☆ | ¥22,000–41,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 100% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 11:00; about three minutes from the Shiodome exit of JR Shimbashi; about one minute from Shiodome station (Oedo line, Yurikamome); every room on the 26th floor or higher; thirteen minutes to Senso-ji on the Asakusa line; 480 rooms. |
| Trust | ★★★☆☆ | 4.57 across 4,643 reviews (Rakuten Travel 4,643) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | Every room is on the 26th floor or higher, and it is still only three minutes from JR Shimbashi. |
Know before you book
- Shimbashi is on the JR Yamanote line and the Ginza and Asakusa subway lines, and Ginza begins a short walk north of the station. It is the easiest of these districts for getting around the rest of Tokyo.
- Shiodome is the skyscraper cluster beside Shimbashi, with its own Oedo line and Yurikamome stations. Hama-rikyu, the old shogun’s garden on the water, is next to it.
- Hamamatsucho is the end of the Tokyo Monorail from Haneda airport, so a hotel here means one train from the plane to your street. Daimon, on the Oedo and Asakusa lines, is the subway station beside it.
- The Yurikamome is a driverless elevated line that starts at Shimbashi and crosses Rainbow Bridge to Odaiba, then carries on to Shijo-mae for the Toyosu fish market. It is slow but the view from the front car is part of the trip.
- Odaiba and Toyosu are on reclaimed land in the bay: open, quiet at night and good for views, but every trip into central Tokyo starts with the Yurikamome or a change of trains.
- Prices here are per person with breakfast, for two sharing. On the bay side a Saturday can cost far more than a Wednesday.
How we chose: theme, conditions, scoring
How we chose
- Candidates: every property in Shimbashi and Odaiba listed on Rakuten Travel — 105
- Passed the review filter (counts and averages on Rakuten Travel, the one site that lists every property in the area): 52
- Met every condition below: 35
- Kept: five, each the best at something different
Where the facts come from
- Facts: Rakuten Travel property information (in some articles, each hotel’s own site too)
- Prices: Rakuten Travel live availability, Wednesdays and Saturdays over eight weeks
- Reviews: the count and average on Rakuten Travel, as given in each hotel’s Trust row. Agoda’s reviews are shown under each hotel name for reference only and do not count towards the score
Conditions (all of them, not most of them)
- In Rakuten Travel’s Tokyo 23-ward district B — Shimbashi, Shiodome, Hamamatsucho, Odaiba, Toyosu and Ariake
- At least 100 reviews on Rakuten Travel, averaging 4.0 or better
- The cheapest rate falls between ¥7,000 and ¥35,000 per person per night
- Walkable from a station: the listing gives a walking time, or says the hotel is connected to the station
Scoring
Five criteria, one to five stars each, weighted to one hundred points. Every star says where the number came from.
- Quality20 pts
- The average of the scores Rakuten Travel publishes for the room, the bath and the food.
- Value for money25 pts
- The cheapest breakfast-inclusive rate against the median of the hotels we compared.
- Easy to stay30 pts
- Minutes from the station, a bath house, and check-out time.
- Trust20 pts
- Review counts and averages published by Rakuten Travel.
- Only here5 pts
- What this hotel has that the other 34 do not.
What we dropped
| Property | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Park Hotel Tokyo | Runner-up (76/100) | It scored 76, level with Tosho Kaikan, but it does the same job as Hotel 1899 Tokyo — the same 4.83 average — and Hotel 1899 scored 85. At about ¥25,000–41,000 per person on a weekday it is 116% of the median, dearer than every one of the five. |
| Mitsui Garden Hotel Shiodome Italia-gai | Runner-up (70/100) | Cheaper on a weekday than any of the five, but it scored 70. Its 4.31 average and its category scores averaging 4.26 are the lowest of the eight we scored, and Tosho Kaikan — also by Hamamatsucho with a large bath — scored 76. |
| InterContinental Tokyo Bay | Runner-up (63/100) | The best views here, but it scored 63, the lowest of the eight. At about ¥31,000–50,000 per person on a weekday it is 142% of the median — the weakest value we found — and its 4.50 average is below every one of the five. |
| Hilton Tokyo Odaiba | Not used | Connected to Daiba station, with 4.38 across 4,788 reviews — but Grand Nikko Tokyo Daiba is at the same station and rated 4.58, so we did not need both. |
| Mitsui Garden Hotel Toyosu Premier | Not used | 4.58 across 690 reviews and connected to exit 2 of Toyosu station, but for the Toyosu side we preferred La Vista Tokyo Bay, which has a natural hot spring. |
| Villa Fontaine Grand Tokyo Ariake | Runner-up | One of only two of the 35 with a natural hot-spring bath, four minutes from Ariake on the Yurikamome — but 4.38 across 1,673 reviews, below La Vista Tokyo Bay’s 4.59. |
| Tokyo Bay Ariake Washington Hotel | Outside the theme | 12,022 reviews averaging 4.27 and three minutes from Tokyo Big Sight, but its cheapest rate falls below our ¥7,000-per-person floor. |
| 53 hotels | Below the floor | Fewer than 100 reviews, or an average below 4.0. |
Questions visitors ask
Which of these is easiest from Haneda airport?
Tosho Kaikan is four minutes from Hamamatsucho, where the monorail from Haneda comes in. Grand Nikko Tokyo Daiba is about twenty minutes from Haneda by limousine bus, which drops you without any train changes. From Shimbashi and Daimon the Toei Asakusa line also has through trains to Haneda.
Shimbashi or Odaiba — which should I pick?
Shimbashi and Shiodome if you want to get around Tokyo: the Yamanote line, two subway lines and Ginza a short walk away. Odaiba if your days are there or you want the bay — it is open and quiet in the evening, but everything else starts with fifteen minutes on the Yurikamome. Hamamatsucho sits between the two and is one train from Haneda.
Is there a hot spring?
One of the five has natural hot-spring water: La Vista Tokyo Bay, with a bath looking out over the bay at night, an open-air bath and a sauna. Adults pay a ¥150 bathing tax. Tosho Kaikan has a large communal bath, though not a hot spring. Both are nude and shared in the Japanese way, so if you have a tattoo, ask first.
Do the staff speak English?
Only Grand Nikko Tokyo Daiba says so among the five: Rakuten’s listing says most of its staff speak near-native, fluent English. The others do not publish it, so ask when you book.
How much do these cost, and when were prices checked?
We searched Rakuten Travel availability for Wednesdays and Saturdays between 31 October and 23 December 2026, on 24 October, taking the cheapest room with breakfast and showing it per person for two sharing. Weekday lows run from about ¥16,000 at La Vista Tokyo Bay to about ¥22,000. No rooms came up for Tosho Kaikan in that window. Prices move daily — the link on each hotel shows what it costs today.
Which one would you book?
Hotel 1899 Tokyo: it scored 85, the highest of the five, with a 4.83 average and a breakfast rated 4.83, from about ¥18,000 per person on a weekday. If you want a hot-spring soak at the end of the day, La Vista Tokyo Bay scored 84 and is the cheapest of the five on a weekday, at about ¥16,000.
Changes
- 2026-10-31 First published. Scored from 105 candidates.