Hotel Tomo

I recently moved out of my place in the Bay Area. I'm now hanging in Los Angeles but there was a few days there where I needed a place to stay. As it was my birthday, I decided to splurge and stay in a hotel. I chose the Hotel Tomo, a boutique-ish hotel in San Francisco's Japan Town that's actually a Best Western. A pretty cool Best Western.

The rooms are nice. Every room has a mural by Heisuke Kitazawa, a Japanese artist. The rooms also have a widescreen TV (that I had to keep setting to 4:3 to watch regular TV so it wasn't all stretched out), fun colors and a nice big desk.

I liked the lobby, although I didn't hang out there much. I really wanted to lie down on that bed thing but there were always lots of staff milling around the lobby and working and stuff.

That video screen column in the background ran anime and Godzilla movies 24/7. Well, I assume it was 24/7. I didn't get up at 4am to check or anything.

I was staying on the first floor. Outside my sliding glass door (which wouldn't open) were two geodesic domes. I asked the guy in the lobby if I could see the domes but it turned into a big deal so I said it was OK. Apparently they're for meetings and luncheons and stuff.

Just across the way is this:

Not Japan but a reasonable facsimile.

All in all, I'd stay at the Hotel Tomo again, although I'd request to not be on the first floor. The cafe, Mums, is on the first floor and it can get kinda noisy. Then again, having that kind of access to the bar is nice too.

Comments

[rupan777]

Interesting place! Ironically, it looks far too spacious for a Japanese hotel or it would end up being 20000+ yen a night to stay in.

Say Hi to Matt for me while you're there.

[Adam]

Matt says hi too.

Is this really the best use of my blog? ^_^

[rupan777]

Ask him and let me know what he says. :P