Independent travel has become a favorite travel style for many people who like to travel in Japan, because the independent travel style can give them more freedom in the trip, as well as allow them to choose the favorite hotel to stay.
Although there are still many people like to book their hotel in travel agents, more and more people choose to use online hotel reservation service. Benefits of booking hotel through the online travel sites include: lower prices, more hotel choices, and more convenient in booking process.
The primary consideration in the selection of online reservation site is their scale and reputation. Zuji, Hotels.com, HotelClub, OctopusTravel are some major international reservation sites. In addition, more and more people use the travel search engines such as HotelsCombine.com, Wego.com to compare the lowest rate in different online reservation sites in order to find out the most favorable price.
Japan is a relatively self-protect country. This characteristic also ratain in its economic activities. Therefore, the hotels in Japan usually offer more favorable rate to the travel agents in Japan than those in overseas. Hence, you can get more favorable price and have more hotel choice by booking Japan hotels through Japan online travel sites. Sometimes, you may find lower price in the foregin online travel sites when they providing short-term big promotion.
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In sum, if you want to book Japan hotels, Japanese online travel sites are your primary choice. The benefits include:
1. more favorable rate;
2. more hotel choice;
3. no prepayment at the time of reservation, no credit card information required, all accommodation fee are paid at the time of check-in.
Rakuten Travel is the largest online travel site in Japan, followed by Jalan net. The number of hotels provided by them, as well as the room rate in these two sites are basically equal. However, from time to time, Rakuten Travel will release discount coupons for its members. After consider the benefit of these discount coupons, the room rate in Rakuten Travel are generally less 500 to 1,000 JPY.
Although there are many advantages while booking Japan hotels through Japanese online travel sites, but seldom foreign traveler dare to do that due to the language barrier.
In fact, the reservation process is not complicated. By following the step by step instructions in the following tutorial article, you will find that the reservation process in Rakuten Travel Japanese site is quite simple and easy.
Tutorial of hotel reservation in Rakuten Travel Japanese site:
- How to book Japan Hotel in Rakuten Travel Japanese website for Dummies -
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If you do not like to use the Japanese site, you can use Rakuten Travel English website. In fact, the room rate in both sites have not big different. Mostly, the room rates are normally same in both sites. However, the number of hotels provided in the English website will less than the Japanese site, but the popular hotels are usually can be found in the English website.
Tutorial of hotel reservation in Rakuten Travel English website:
- How to book Japan Hotel in Rakuten Travel English website for Dummies -
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