Drew Hamilton <awh@awh.org> wrote in message news:<klrad1-lj8.ln1@urd.awh.org>...
> Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson  <Search for my PO Box account, if you must reply via mail...> wrote:
> >However, looking at a few Japanese hotel aggregators, all of them only
> >allow booking 3 months in advance and/or stays of 7 or 8 days max.
> >Even going direct to hotels, they seem to have the same conditions.
> 
> Just looked briefly at mytrip.net -- picked a random 2-week span
> in May for 2 adults..  There are a few hotels listed who can make
> that reservation..  but I suppose it depends on your definition of
> a reasonable price; \7500/night was the cheapest I could find.

I did look at mytrip.net before, but there's only a handful of hotels
listed there, and only one or two in the Umeda area, but I've never
heard of them before. Expedia, on the other hand, only has 4 and
5-star places (and prices to match), and more than half the places are
either sold out already (what's on in Osaka in May?) or cannot be
booked online. Oh, BTW, "reasonable" would be up to 10,000 yen per
person (one double and a single) per night, and hopefully a discount
for the long-ish booking.

I hate to sound like ifignow, but it was so easy the last three years
finding hotels in Europe in even small out-of-the-way towns over the
net, but trying to get a room 5 km away from where I am sitting right
now is very frustrating!

Ken