The Centurion Hotel Classic Akasaka



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Looking for a place to stay in Akasaka? Then look no further than The Centurion Hotel Classic Akasaka, a charming hotel that brings the best of Akasaka to your doorstep.
The Centurion Hotel Classic Akasaka is a charming hotel offering a refrigerator and air conditioning in the rooms, and it is easy to stay connected during your stay as free wifi is offered to guests.
The hotel features a 24 hour front desk and baggage storage.
For those interested in checking out popular landmarks while visiting Akasaka, The Centurion Hotel Classic Akasaka is located a short distance from Suzufuriinari Shrine (0.2 mi) and Sogetsu Hall (0.4 mi).
If you like steakhouses, The Centurion Hotel Classic Akasaka is conveniently located near Kobe Beef Kaiseki 511, Teppanyaki Dante, and Ikinari Steak Akasakadori.
Looking to explore? Then look no further than 21 21 DESIGN SIGHT (0.6 mi), Japan Traditional Crafts Aoyama Square (0.5 mi), and Nogi Shrine (0.7 mi), which are some popular Akasaka attractions – all conveniently located within walking distance of the hotel.
We’re sure you’ll enjoy your stay at The Centurion Hotel Classic Akasaka as you experience everything Akasaka has to offer.
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The staff are friendly, very helpful and the place itself - Akasaka - is so alive and interesting.
We will definitely stay here again.
The staff were so kind, courteous, helpful, responsive, and accommodating. They stood up and greeted us every time we walked by the lobby. They coordinated taxi pick up and drop off for our family as well. Days before our stay, the hotel staff contacted us to confirm our flight arrival time and projected arrival at the hotel.
Everything about this hotel was just fantastic. I highly recommend this hotel especially for families and those with disabilities. We would definitely stay here again in the future.
The location is close to the subway. No breakfast facility and very few options nearby. Just note that Akasaka area at night is not very family friendly in that it’s an after working drinking area with many “red light” recruiters on the street.



Found out from the hotel front desk that this hotel opened last month, so it’s a very new hotel. The Jap-style room is very modern and fully equipped with a washing machine, microwave, small fridge (not mini-bar, but a fridge with a separate freezer door), small counter with sink. The bathroom comes with the modern Jap toilet bowl and a bath tub where u can fill it up with water by determining the temp and water level u want.
The 2 king beds were enormous and very comfortable for my family of 4. There were also 4 more bunk beds in the room, but they weren’t fitted with bed linen as we didn’t pay for it. You can actually pay a one-time fee if you want the bunk beds to be made.
Bathroom has the usual Jap toilet seats but the system is very new. The shower area also has a bath that you can fill up using some controls on the wall. That’s very modern because most other hotels have a bath tub, but not an automated system.
To our surprise and amazement, the room has not just 1, but 2 massage chairs! We thought that was a great added amenity/facility that guests would appreciate after a hectic day of shopping in Tokyo.
To be honest, I was in 2 minds about choosing this Jap style suite vs the modern Akasaka suite. But after staying here for a few nights, I’m glad I booked this. It really gives us a great “feel” of Japan, sitting on tatami mats, instead of the usual carpeted room floors. Couldn’t have asked for a more unique and yet comfortable Jap-style room. It’s a huge room (60 sq m) by any hotel standards, not to mention Japanese. I feel the hotel is very generous to allocate so much space for this suite and at such a reasonable price. Just a bite that only their Jap website is up so I couldn’t tell much from their website. So I booked through booking.com and secured a great rate.
Location-wise, the hotel is right smack in the middle of 2 metro stations. If you step out of the main entrance and turn left, Akasaka-Mitsuke is 4 mins to your left. We used this metro station more as it has more metro lines connected to it.
If you turn right and walk 4 Min, you’ll reach Akasaka station. There’s tonnes of eateries and restaurants surrounding the hotel. You’ll find no lack of food at all! Just note that on Sundays quite a lot of eateries are closed. I think it’s bec this is an office/commercial district so there are no working class people around on Sundays so the stores take a break, and rightly so.
* How to Find Hotel:
Upon arrival at Akasaka-Mitsuke station , please look for exit 10 and head up the escalator. Please turn right when you see Bic Camera Store. Then you’ll see the Cosy Corner cake shop. Take a left and keep walking for about 4 minutes crossing a few small lanes. You’ll pass by Itamae sushi, Natural Lawson and many other stores along the way.
As the hotel doesn’t have a huge signboard nor is the building very tall, please keep a lookout on your right after about a 3-min walk. You’ll see the front of the hotel (see my pictures) as well as The Public Red, a new sports bar located on the ground level, in the, beside the hotel entrance.
I realised the guests also have access to the public bath/spa provided by centurion grand akasaka-Mitsuke about 1 Min walk away. You just need to inform front-desk and they’ll check on the availability for you. Do note that the ladies’ bath is in a building right behind centurion grand.
One “negative” to note, though, is that, because this is an affluent district catering to the working class, there’ll be many pubs/restaurants that open till late night catering to them. We also noticed quite a lot of people quite drunk after their after-work drinks. However, they didn’t bother us. I noticed some ladies waiting outside some stores too. Not sure if they were trying to solicit customers but they didn’t bother us either.
Overall, we were very pleased with the spacious hotel room, the unique jap-style decor, the comfort level of the beds, as well as the location. If you’re not keen to be in the centre of the shopping districts of shinjuku and shibuya bec they tend to be so crowded, and yet still want convenience and a location not too far from them, do choose this hotel. Don’t think you’ll have any regrets.
Food tips:
Right opp the hotel, about 10 steps across the lane is this very famous miso-shoyu ramen 一点张 store that locals queue up outside for. They have excellent ramen, gyoza and fried rice (my personal fav). Do join the queue and give it a try!!
Itamae sushi near the Akasaka-Mitsuke station is excellent. There’s another 24 hour restaurant about 2 to 3 units away from Itamae that serves very excellent Kaisendon and chirashi don. However in the evening, they serve less varieties of this and have grilled seafood instead.
When we arrived, we found the queen beds to be too narrow for our comfort. The beds were somewhere between 140-160cm wide, whereas in Japan true queen beds start at 170cm. The beds were also joined together in the middle with 4 people having to sleep in a row, so if one person in the middle decided to go to the bathroom, they would wake up others.
Given the bed issue, we decided that the 2 adults would sleep on the bed and the 2 kids would sleep on foldout sofas.
However, we discovered that while sofas had pillow and a blanket, they did not have sheets or linen.
When I went down to the front desk to ask for linen for the sofas, I was told that we would have to pay extra for it. Shocked, I asked to speak to the manager. The front desk person at first refused to let me speak to the manager, then he told me that manager was unavailable, then he called the manager, then the manager emerged from the room behind the desk. This was apparently the night shift manager who pretended to not speak English, even though his English was fine few hours before when we checked in.
Since he was unhelpful, I asked to speak to the property manager, at which point the night manager started repeatedly yelling to the other front desk person “cancel the reservation, cancel the reservation, cancel the reservation.” My 10-year old son who was there with me got scared that we were about to be thrown out of the hotel in a strange city at night.
When I came back to speak with the property manager in the morning, the property manager pretended not to speak English as well. However, his English was good enough for him to write out “pay extra for linen” on a sheet of paper. When I asked him if he knew the meaning of the word “omotenashi”, which is the Japanese word for hospitality, he hesitated for a long time and then told me that he didn’t know what it meant — clearly.
We cancelled our remaining stay and moved to another hotel, where they did know the meaning of omotenashi and where we had a wonderful stay.
"There isn’t room cleaning so be sure to keep it tidy. By the way, there is a washing machine so you don’t have to keep repeating clothes!"Read full review
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