Tokyo
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Yup Keio plaza is the one. I didn't think the hotel itself was much to rave about. I mean its plush inside but nothing special. The views from the 40 something'th floor were great thoughspecially at night! There's plenty of tall buildings about though so if you can't wrangle it then I'm sure there will be others.
Thought so ... I've stayed there a few times.
Thought I would post a little update. I ended up staying in the Ginza-Kyobashi area and was working in the Maranouchi area so only a 15 minute walk between them. Unfortunately we had a few issues with the job I was out there to do so only got a few hours free on the Friday. I opted to head to Shinjuku on the Metro line and yep it was fairly easy to find my way around.
Weather was great 28-30c most days and the company I was doing work for were mainly English speaking Japanese people so was able to go out with them for lunches and enjoy some proper Japanese food, I tried chicken and pork cutlets in breadcrumbs with rice, miso soup and salad, then they took me to a noodle place which was very nice and cool to see that they charged about 50p for an extra helping of noodles. But the best was a little Gyoza place that we went to in the Ginza area - they were awesome.
Also had to check out McDonalds whilst there and couldn't believe that a sausage muffin (no egg) was actually on the menu and only 100yen - so breakfast sorted for about a quid lol.
Now to start prepping for my next trip which is San Francisco in about 2-3 weeks.
Weather was great 28-30c most days and the company I was doing work for were mainly English speaking Japanese people so was able to go out with them for lunches and enjoy some proper Japanese food, I tried chicken and pork cutlets in breadcrumbs with rice, miso soup and salad, then they took me to a noodle place which was very nice and cool to see that they charged about 50p for an extra helping of noodles. But the best was a little Gyoza place that we went to in the Ginza area - they were awesome.
Also had to check out McDonalds whilst there and couldn't believe that a sausage muffin (no egg) was actually on the menu and only 100yen - so breakfast sorted for about a quid lol.
Now to start prepping for my next trip which is San Francisco in about 2-3 weeks.
god damn it hate seeing these threads my next jaunt over isnt till christmas next year 
things to do though have been fairly well covered above, to be honest having a day to do a lot of stuff is doable. get up early and get a train up to the sky tree and asakusa and have a good mooch about for a few hours then barrel back in to tokyo and hit harajuku (check out yoyogi park and the shrines while there) and shibuya for touristy pics and madness then head off to the robot bar early evening and hit a few bars afterwards just dont over sleep
things to do though have been fairly well covered above, to be honest having a day to do a lot of stuff is doable. get up early and get a train up to the sky tree and asakusa and have a good mooch about for a few hours then barrel back in to tokyo and hit harajuku (check out yoyogi park and the shrines while there) and shibuya for touristy pics and madness then head off to the robot bar early evening and hit a few bars afterwards just dont over sleep