During our Japan trip we spent six nights at the Intercontenental Grand Yokohama located in the shopping and hotel complex located at Minato Mirai 21.
The complex includes several hotels, Queens Square mall, subway station, underground parking etc. It also blends with the Landmark Tower complex too.
The Queens Square is a large six level affair if you include the Minato Mirai subway station. It has countless shopping outlets, convenience stores and restaurants.
During our stay we had a hire car, parking for the hotel is shared with the public underground parking located next to the hotel. The hotel offers discounted parking for those residents using the car park at 1800¥ per day which at the time i write is about £10.60, which is good for parking at this size of hotel. The car park is very large there was never a shortage of places.
The mall could provide a lot of shopping opportunities if you like that kind of thing, for us we did not go for the shopping and only used the restaurants located within.
After a few nights out in Tokyo i was surprised to find the mall closed at 23:00 hours. Which meant most of the restaurants closed at 22:00, the odd bar opened until 23:00. There was little else in the local area, it all seemed to be concentrated in the mall which meant we often picked up a few cans of Kirin in the stores. These we drank back at the hotel while we blogged and facebooked our daily shinanigens.
Food outlets were numerous and their quality was good if you stick to the traditional Japanese food.
In our experience eating in the American chain restaurants was not an enjoyable experience and always seemed to disappoint. When in Japan you should be enjoying their home dishes not burgers and ribs american style!
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