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Four Luxury Hotels in Tokyo - What They Taught Me About Choosing the Right One
Kimpton Shinjuku, Park Hyatt Tokyo, EDITION Ginza, and JW Marriott Tokyo - four luxury hotels, four very different experiences, and four very different reasons to stay
The Beginner Strategy We Use for Booking Hotels in Japan With Points
How normal travelers use credit card points to save on great hotels in Japan - and occasionally splurge on once-in-a-lifetime stays
The Stay We Didn’t Plan For: When a Hotel Becomes the Destination
This is Part 4 of 5 in our 14-night Japan trip on points
In this part: A points redemption that turned into the most unexpected highlight of our trip
Ranked #2 - The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto: The Hotel That Changed How We See Luxury in Japan
It was our first luxury stay on points. Its genuine, consistent hospitality became the benchmark for every hotel that followed
The Framework I Use to Plan Every Japan Trip With Points - Part 2: Hotels
How I decide when to use hotel points, when to pay cash, and which stays are actually worth building a Japan trip around
What The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto Means to Us
Set along Kyoto’s Kamo River, this was more than a hotel for us - it was the beginning of our honeymoon and a tradition we’ve returned to ever since