Cheap but good hotels in tokyo?

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1. what area of tokyo?
   what’s your definition of cheap?
   what’s your definition of good?
   would you consider capsules or hostels?

2. If it is just to have a cheap place to sleep, Toyoko inn should be enough. For a slightly better stay, Remm is one grade above.

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   I would not recommend APA because of their CEO’s revisionist alt-right opinions.

3. Apa hotel is everywhere and decently prized.

4. Washington hotel Akihabara, I loved it

5. I mean…. If you want dirt cheap….. it’s not a hotel but people do stay at Manga Kisas.

   https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2025_manga_kissa.html#:~:text=Furthermore%2C%20manga%20kissa%20have%20become,to%202500%20yen%20per%20night.

6. back in my tourist days, I always went to the business hotels near the West Exit of Ikebukuro station:
   e.g.
   https://www.star-hotel.co.jp/newstar

   Don’t book direct, the 3rd party sites are usually cheaper

7. Don’t use apa hotel

8. Give the old sharehouse/backpackers a look if you want cheap. Not many other foreign tourists around so you might find something half empty.

9. Within the budget of 3k-5k during Obon, I think you best bet is to find a capsule hotel if you want a relativly clean and modern space to sleep in. But even for capsule hotel I doubt if you can find a decent one whitin the budget during holiday season.
   Just open Google map and search capsule hotel and filter out those with review lower than 4 stars, then you can see what choices you have and the prices during that time.

10. 5k per day isn’t doable, I don’t think. Not that I’m aware of, anyway. Most barebones business hotels in the popular parts of tokyo start at around 10000/night, as I’m sure you’ve seen

    Shinjuku has a ton of love hotels for that price though, but you may have a luggage situation for the daily cleaning

    If I was in your situation I’d stay in a capsule and put my stuff in a locker in their lobby

    Or get something far away from Shinjuku that’s more reasonable and take the train in

11. you can try those internet cafe if you want

12. There are a lot of AirBNB listed in the ¥3500-5000 range but I haven’t stayed at an AirBNB in years so I can’t speak to the quality. Honestly hotels are so i expensive right now I would probably just fork over the extra cash for a guaranteed level of quality.

13. In Minami Senju there used to be really really dirt cheap hostels. Not sure if they survived the pandemic though.

14. By far the easiest thing to do would be to load up Tripadvisor, enter your destination, dates and sort by price.

15. Welp just booked a capsule hotel for cheap. Lol

16. You can find lots of comfortable hotels in Asakusa in this price range, without foreign tourism, Asakusa has way more rooms than visitors. Just put Asakusa into something like booking.com