Mitsui Garden Lalaport Funabashi Hotel Chiba

Hotel Sun Garden (or Mitsui Garden) afforded an intersting look at a suburban Japanese hotel. It's a Western-style hotel, but is meant for local clientele and is not a deluxe tourist hotel. (It has a signficiant wedding and family event trade. You may encounter one of these events going on for a look at local lifestyles.)

Sun Garden was inexpensive compared with staying in nearby Tokyo. (Tokyo was easy to reach via train.) The hotel is in central Chiba, across teh street from Chiba's shopping and restaurant distrct.

Rooms were comparable to rooms in a typical American motel. They were clean and comfortable, if appearing small from my perspective. A TV was provided and one could watch morning network news shows from the USA as well as Japanese channels. A computer with Internet access was also in the room as was the hot water carafe (for making tea or coffee) typical of Japanese hotels.

The hotel's coffee shop serves both a Western-style and Japanese-style breakfast buffet.