One Week in Chiba: Part 2 ~Living Sky-High~

(Let's ignore that they spelled my name wrong...*sigh*)

After lunch at Ryokusuitei, we checked in at our hotel, the Kamogawa Grand Tower! I mentioned this place very briefly in a previous post, when I stayed in one of their standard (but still gigantic and gorgeous) standard condominiums, but this time I stayed in a royal suite!!!!!

If you were to pick Kamogawa's three most luxurious hotels, it would be the Ryokusuitei, the Kamogawakan, and the Kamogawa Grand Hotel/Tower. Each of these places cost an average of 100,000 yen per night (for their suites - the Kamogawakan and Grand Hotel/Tower have more standard rooms, which are still fairly pricey).

Of course, staying in such places is not really possible on my salary...but an acquaintance of mine was extremely generous enough to give me a coupon reducing the room rate to 31,500 yen for a night! 

 
There are only four royal suites in the the Kamogawa Grand Tower! All of them look totally gorgeous, but I chose "White Breeze" because it was supposed to be the one with the best view - and  despite the cloudy weather, the view really was absolutely amazing!

Really excited to check out the room!

Hello Grand Tower!

Can't even fit it all into a single photo...:D

The Grand Tower stands 33 floors high, and is the tallest building in Kamogawa - the next tallest being Kameda Medical Center's K Tower, which I believe is only 15 floors tall. It's pretty impressive standing at the base...and just as epic from the top!

The 32nd floor is the highest floor for rooms (the 33rd floor is the hotel bar), and is dedicated solely to the Royal Suites.

First, you have to slide your card to get into the lobby for the suites. I felt super VIP already, and we hadn't even gone into our room yet!

Garden on the 32nd floor!

And now...I present photos of our suite! It has a giant living room, two bed rooms, a mini-kitchen, and three bathrooms, plus a huge entryway.

Entryway. This is already enough space for a standard business hotel room.

This is the main bedroom, where I got to sleep. Totally random, but you can open/close the curtains with a button on the night stand!

Changing area connecting the bed and bath. There were so many towels...There were tons of towels in all of the bathrooms too, even though there were only 3 of us staying 1 night. It made me feel wasteful even though I didn't use them.

I also monopolize this whole bathroom! I couldn't fit it all in one photo, but there's another sink, marble shower, and toilet on the other side of this room.

The view from my bedroom! Downtown Kamogawa - and the tall gray-ish building to the right is Kamogawa City Hall.

The living room area looks out over the Pacific Ocean~!

Dining area to the back right, and one of the bedrooms to the left.

The view from the left side of the living room area.

My parents' bedroom for the night. I love how open it is~.

A peek into one of the other bathrooms. This one also has a toilet and full bath.

And last but most certainly not least, the view from the second bedroom! It's no wonder why my parents chose to sleep here instead of in the main bedroom.


After visiting one of Kamogawa's seaside areas in the morning, and enjoying a view of Kamogawa from our room in the afternoon, we headed out to Kamogawa's Nagasa district, a mountain/farming area, in the evening!

Next post: experiencing Kamogawa's mountainside culture.