Tokyo booked out?

Hi,
How come Tokyo is booked out from October almost through November??

I thought the peak travel season was over...

Autumn leaf season is a big thing. Also Japan has seen a huge increase in tourism in the past year, things are getting booked out very quickly.

Try rakuten or jalan for places that might not be listed on other sites like booking.com.

Also Japan has seen a huge increase in tourism in the past year

On that note, those have been exactly my thoughts for a while now, but now I'm starting to wonder if there are any hard numbers on this perceived increase.

http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/ttp/sta/

There has been a massive increase in tourists. The JNTO keeps very detailed statistics.

How come Tokyo is booked out from October almost through November??
Some hotels could be? But whole Tokyo? You'd better check again .
I just had a look at business hotels, Toyoko inns, plenty rooms are still available in many of their Tokyo hotels.

@ girltokyo

Thank you!! I have been trying to explain this to some posters over the last few months.

@ Faiyez

The main reasons for the significant increase in tourists are the weak yen and a relaxation of visa requirements for visitors from other Asian countries, especially China. Indeed, visitors from China comprise the highest number of tourists to Japan.

" The number of tourists and other visitors arriving from overseas reached 1,817,100 in August, up 63.8 percent from the same month last year "
- http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/16/national/tourist-numbers-c...

A quick random search just now on Booking.com showed there are still 337 out of 594 properties available for the 2 nights I will be in Tokyo (October 28-30)

I will be in Japan from 13-29th October. Not really staying in Tokyo more than one or two days (booked one already). But in case of plan interruptions I want to stay near Tokaido area to reach airport in Nagoya. So I am a little worried I might be out of room in the area.

Just until a few weeks ago most Toyoko Inn were non booked but looking at the most seem booked out. Even Nagoya and down to Kagoshima is starting to book out (mostly weekend but anyway).

If I need to stay for several days Id rather not move around from hotel to hotel. It happened once before and I hate hauling lugguage through Tokyo.

Reason for staying in Tokyo is that I will visit north.

You must be doing something wrong, there are many available rooms in Tokyo even for the entire period of Oct 13-29.

Yesterday I booked a week at the beginning of November without problem. I also have three or four other bookings in place (done recently). Are you restricting your price and location too aggressively? (although I have a hotel for Y67,000 for six nights and it's still pretty nice).

I probably have done something wrong. Where do you find hotels? Is it in Tokyo central or outside? Just curious.

Booking.com has many rooms left in central Tokyo, Rakuten Travel has even more. That's all we can say unless you tell us more precisely what you want (date, location, price, maybe type of hotel, etc.). Conventional tourist hotels in central Tokyo may be quite expensive, for example.

Thank you for your reassurance.

Well since I will probably fly or take an early train long way I try to stay near east part of Tokyo. Well I guess.
I try to stay below 7000 JPY a night but a simple capsule would do if others are out.

For your entire stay (Oct 13-29, 16 nights), rooms in standard hotel chains such as APA can be booked for about 140-150,000 yen, so that's slightly over 7000 yen per night but still acceptable I guess. Most are available on Japanese Rakuten Travel, but there are also some on the English one (Booking.com on the other hand is much more expensive). There are also a couple lower-end hotels with private rooms, and a lot of capsule hotels.

http://travel.rakuten.com/ghotel/list/Japan-Tokyo_Prefecture/JP_JP-13/...

Well bless the gods, I thought it was no hope. Thank you Firas.

I checked on Trivago day by day from 13rd Oct in Nagoya, single occupancy, upper limit 7079 yen (not including tax etc).

13rd

http://goo.gl/mnmN51

63 hotels out of 213

14th

http://goo.gl/jDA23t

46 hotels out of 213

15th

http://goo.gl/QhETsM

15 hotels out of 213

16th

http://goo.gl/5pNKyW

19 hotels out of 213

17th

http://goo.gl/4QAuRC

2 hotels (hostels) out of 213

18th

http://goo.gl/ptvuLP

65 hotels out of 213.

1. Saturday is very packed so you will have difficulties in finding rooms at an affordable rate.

2. Booking continuous days in the same hotel is sometimes difficult.