Prices in the Japanese capital blown up, but there are ways to stay in Tokyo without ruin. Follow our tips!

HOTELS

Metropolitan Marunouchi Hotel – Tokyo

If you are demanding in terms of price and location, this hotel is an excellent choice. Connected to the Tokyo Station, you can go there after you price the Narita Express from the airport (an hour's drive around), and within minutes you can reach your room. This hotel is ideally located near the subway, the ferrobus and accessible by taxi. You will be very close to the green of the Imperial Palace Gardens (Jardins du Palais Royal). The rooms are small and simple, but the Marunouchi is one of the best places in town to revitalize through attractive shops and many restaurants that surround it.

Park Hotel, Shiodome – Tokyo

Elegant and pretty, this hotel is perfectly located evidence that a night on a business trip does not necessarily cost the eyes of the head. The rooms and suites are decorated in soothing colors and simple, and customers have access to many bars, restaurants and private dining rooms. The staff is attentive to your expectations, and the hotel even has ‘specialist’s pillows' to help you spend the best night possible. Located in the middle of the forest of skyscrapers of Shiodome, it is ideally placed for business, near the station where the Shinkansen ferrobus will take you across the country.

Address: Shiodome Media Tower, 1-7-1 Higashi Shinbashi, Minato-ku
Tel: + 81 3 6252 1111
parkhoteltokyo.com
Rooms from € 150

Mitsui Garden Hotel, Ginza - Tokyo

Located in the middle of the new shopping fashionable Ginza, this hotel is still close to the business districts of Shiodome and Shinbashi, but especially enjoys the 'buzz' created around Ginza. The rooms are not huge, but give the best of themselves, thanks to huge windows overlooking the lights of the street, and ocher tones of their decoration. A business center very well appointed and the Internet cafe Kinkos (open 24/24) are a minute walk. Follow the example of residents, starting your evening outdoors in the hotel bar, the Restaurant Sky and Karin.

Address: 8-13-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku
Tel: +81 3 3543 1131
gardenhotels.co.jp
Rooms from € 130

Hotel Villa Fontaine Roppongi - Tokyo

Hotels in the chain Villa Fontaine has been a great success, and are part of a hotel brand for business travel in the most popular for budget. The recipe is simple: the rooms are small but functional facilities primarily target business travelers, and prices remain affordable. While it has not the prestige of traditional buildings in Tokyo, but the chain has managed to grow around the interests of its concept, gaining quick success deserved. The latter institution has just opened its doors to Shinjuku, Roppongi, but the facility has professional quality, and benefits from its location in the heart of one of the main hub of the city.

Address: 1-6-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku

Tel: +81 3 3560 1110
hvf.jp
Rooms from € 85.

The Prince Park Tower - Tokyo

This 33-story tower is certainly not a Young partridge of the year, but when a business tied to the budget, it fits with expectations. Its 14 restaurants and lounge corners facilitate the holding of interviews with clients, and if you are looking for a more formal, 17 meeting rooms are available for rent. Located near the Tokyo Tower, the hotel is located at the center of the park Shiba, enabling its customers to enjoy an oasis of greenery, unusual in this concrete jungle, illuminated with neon.

Address: 4-8-1 Shiba Koen, Minato-ku
Tel: +81 3 5400 1111
princejapan.com

Rooms from 120 €

RESTAURANTS

Daidaiya - Tokyo

This chain of trendy restaurants, takes the concept of Izakaya a pub that serves dishes summary of sushi, sashimi, of kimchi (spicy cabbage) and yakitori (skewered grilled chicken). But it adds charm to this concept with a touch of modernity. The framework goes beyond the content of the plates, each restaurant features a spectacular, and the Ginza no exception to the rule, thanks to polished wood flooring and stylish lighting. The guests have the choice between open space and private rooms, where horiko-tatsus (Japanese traditional seats) can sit directly on tatami mats.

Address: Ginza Nine 1-Gokan 2F, 8-5 Ginza Chuo-ku
Tel: +81 3 5537 3566
r.gnavci.co.jp

Lunch from 1,500 yen (10 Euros)
Dinners from 5000 yen (35 Euros)

Shunju - Tokyo

This restaurant has long been a favorite of business travelers, who demand impeccable service and excellent food. All six of the chain presents a mix of open kitchens and spacious, the staff speaks fluent English, and the restaurant located in Akasaka offers an extraordinary view over the city. Suggestions for menus offer a mix of traditional Japanese dishes like ragouts' nabe ', fondants sushi, soups' miso', and tofus tasty.

Address: Sanno Park Tower 27F, 2-11-1 Nagato-cho, Chiyoda-ku
Tel: +81 3 3592 5288
shunju.com/ja

Lunch from 1,200 yen (9 Euros)
Dinners from 6800 yen (50 Euros)

Nobu - Tokyo

In most cities the name of this famous leader is synonymous with price rifle. But in Tokyo, the menu starts at a very reasonable price, making it an excellent framework for linking important contacts while you dine. Nobu, with the help of his partner Robert de Niro, has moved his restaurant from Tokyo, Toranomon in 2007, adding at the same time a counter and a sushi bar to wait before eating. Food is an exquisite mixture of South American and Western (try, for example, beef 'Wague' accompanied by Peruvian anticucho and a teriyaki sauce with balsamic vinegar, salad and miso soup), and with its simple yet sophisticated decor, it is not surprising that celebrities are lining up.

Address: 1F Tower Office Toranomon, 4-1-28 Toranomon, Minato-ku
Tel: +81 3 5733 0070
nobutokyo.com

Lunch: from 1800 yen (15 Euros)
Dinners from 1500 yen (11 Euros)

Pintokona - Tokyo

The people who go to Roppongi are overwhelmed with opportunities to eat. One of the best is offered by Pintokona, a sushi bar with conveyor belt, hidden on the lower level of the complex comprising shops and restaurants. Sit along the counter and choose a piece of fresh fish, among those who parade before your eyes. You will also find one of the best selections of vegetarian sushi in the city, and an English menu, very handy.

Address: B2, 6-4-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku
Tel: +81 3 5771 1133
roppongihills.com

Sushis from 150 yen / piece (1 euro)

Gonpatchi - Tokyo

On the four antennas scattered throughout Tokyo, the cavernous restaurant located in Nishi Azabu is the most spectacular. From the outside it was designed to resemble a kura, or treasure cave, and guests enter through a small access door and a reproduction of a street scene, which inspired the scene of the massacre in the film Kill Bill Tarantino. The prices reflect the average of Izakaya. On the menu: a mix of sirloin grilled to sumiyaki coal fire, bar, chicken, sushi and seasonal type Edo, salads and miso soup. You can also enjoy a selection of exotic cocktails as umeshu sour (630 yen / euro 5) based on Japanese green plums (both in color and maturity) macerated in alcohol and sugar.

Address: 1-13-11 Nishi-Azabu, Minato-ku
Tel: +81 3 5771 0170
sushi.gonpachi.jp

KARAOKE

If you are in Tokyo for business, you will hardly escape a session of karaoke, a form of entertainment and leisure extremely popular youth and employees. Those who are anxious to meet their budget will be happy to see that this is an activity at very low cost, with drinks at will, and private room.

The best karaoke establishments located in the districts of Shibuya and Shinjuku. If you can read katakana, you can see the signs from afar, but if not, you trust the people who yell into microphones to attract passers-by inside.

You can opt for Karaoke Kan channels (for an overview, see the film Lost in Translation, a scene which was filmed in one of the antennas Shibuya), where you can rent a room in a high - heaven equipped with large screens, audio systems of ultra-modern microphones, colorful lighting and a telephone to order below, Shochu cocktails and beers Asahi Super Dry.

In general, rents for three hours, and for about 3000 yen (about 20 Euros) per person, you'll be served an unlimited drinks and there may be an opportunity to share a duet with your Japanese client first . And especially do not think you can escape, because as a foreigner you will have the privilege to mount the first on stage.

Address: Karaoke Kan, K & F Building, 30-8 Utagawacho
Visit karaokekan.jp

10 FREE ACTIVITIES TOKYO

Temple Sensoji - Tokyo

In the historic district of Asakusa the entrance to this chapel is dominated by a huge red lantern.

Odaiba - Tokyo

Stroll in the last of projects arising from the fabulous Japanese expansion: land reclaimed, transformed into a beach with a big wheel adorned with psychedelic lights.

Ueno Koen - Tokyo

If you are lucky enough to visit in the spring, this park will enchant you with its profusion of cherry blossoms. If this is not the case, you can stroll in the teeming market in Ameyoko, on the other side of the Ueno station.

Carrefour Shibuya - Tokyo Carrefour Shibuya - Tokyo

Made famous by Lost in Translation, this extraordinary crossroads is used by hundreds of people per minute. Step back and enjoy the show.

Yanaka - Tokyo Yanaka - Tokyo

An area rarely visited, with its winding streets to the old, and art galleries that make it worthwhile.

Omotesando - Tokyo

This chic shopping district is full of outstanding architectural works as the colossal, but elegant building Prada.

Tsukiji fish market - Tokyo

Get up to observe the aurora leaders to fight for the best tuna. You will be entitled to the free, but do not wear your best shoes.

Yasukuni Temple - Tokyo

It is a controversial shrine, honoring all those who gave their lives defending the emperor, which in 1068 were found guilty of war crimes.

View from the building of the Government, Tokyo Metropolitan - Tokyo

Walk to the 45th floor and enjoy a free view of Tokyo which extends all around.

A Sunday in Harajuku - Tokyo

You will be appalled at the sight of teenagers incongruous costume parade before the cameras of tourists.

CONSEILS PRATIQUES TIPS

The subway is safe, effective and very affordable Unlike many cities, it is more advantageous to buy a ticket for each trip if you are unsure of the price, buy the cheapest ticket, which costs 1.20 euro, and complete the missing amount to your arrival.

If you plan to travel at greater distances, buy a Japan Rail Pass before you arrive. A card for 7 days costs 220 Euros, or about the price of a round trip between Tokyo and Kyoto ferrobus and can be used on JR trains, subways and Shinkansen. Visit japanrailpass.net.

When taking a taxi, take a plane, because the streets do not always name.