Blue Empire Hotel

The location near Shin-Okubo and JR stations provides easy access to transportation and dining. The staff offers excellent, friendly service and temporary suitcase storage. Guests appreciate the comfortable bed and spacious room.

This was one of the weirdest stays we've ever had. The "hotel" doesn't have a check-in desk on site. You actually check in at "Hotel Empire in Shinjuku" which is a few blocks away on a different street, which is not really made clear at all when booking. Also you have to give a ¥10,000 yen deposit at check-in, which is a first for me living in Japan. My wife checked in before me and said it was a really strange experience and that she felt unsafe in the area surrounding the hotel alone as a female at night. The hotel room itself is incredibly narrow and the walls are INCREDIBLY thin. There are doors between each room and the next, and there is a gap between those doors and the floor which is so wide that light shines through from other guests' "apartments" and that I could hear the neighboring guest cough/clear his throat quite loudly even though he wasn't doing it all that loud. It sounded like he was in our room. Despite the room being narrow, it *is* long, so it doesn't feel super tiny. There was also a loft with another bed that we didn't climb up to because the note by the ladder made it seem like a dangerous liability that somehow the guest is responsible for rather than the hotel... As far as amentities go, however, you have a washing machine, a microwave, fridge, and a desktop PC that I guess is available to use, but we didn't turn it on. It was definitely a weird experience in general that I wouldn't repeat.