Introduction During our last trip to Osaka, we decided to fit 4 people into the Crowne Plaza. We had done the St. Regis last time, but we went ‘cheap’ this time. I know most people stay at the Intercontinental, but this location isn’t bad and provides pretty good value. We actually paid cash – about […]
I just got back from a 2.5 week long trip to Japan. This was the first time I’ve been in the country for that long and the first time we’ve traveled with other people. We had done most of the sightseeing already like Maricar, but we did a few of them again. Here’s how we […]
Introduction We were in Osaka for 2 days back in April of this year during the cherry blossom season. We took the train from Kyoto to Osaka and arrived around 1pm or so. We initially wanted to go to Nara first since it’s “on the way” and then head to Osaka later, but didn’t want […]
Introduction After bailing on my Machu Pichu trip, I decided to go back to Japan and Korea for the 2017 cherry blossom season. My wife has always wanted to go to DC to see the cherry blossoms, and so seeing it in Japan will be even better than that. The problem of course is […]
Introduction We stayed here in April 2017 for 2 nights during cherry blossom season. The consensus place to stay is the Intercontinental Osaka, but they were fully booked, so I booked this St. Regis using 20K SPG points per night. Rack rate was around $800 due to the season, so it was a great use […]