How to book Japan Hotel in Rakuten Travel English website for Dummies – STEP 1 – Search Hotel

【STEP - 1】Search Hotel

If you have already choose your hotel , you can igonre this step. Press here jump to next step.

Rakuten Travel English website provides several methods to search hotel, I will introduce the most simple and popular one in this article.

 

1. In the search window on the left upper corner of Rakuten Travel English website homepage, set the conditions such as check-in and check-out dates, number of rooms, number of guests in each room (note: if you travel with child, press “with Childern” to set the number of child), Country (in addition to Japan hotels, you can also book the hotels of East Asia and South East Asia in Rakuten Travel), City and Locations, and then press the「SEARCH」 button to search for qualified hotels.

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How to book Japan Hotel in Rakuten Travel English website for Dummies

If you feel that the process of room reservation in Rakuten Travel Japanese website is difficult, you can use the Rakuten Travel English website to make your Japan hotel reservation. 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, and the number of hotels provided in the English website is increasing.

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How to book Japan Hotel in Rakuten Travel Japanese website for Dummies – Rakupon Discount Coupons

Rakupon「ラ・クーポン」 is the discount coupons issued by Rakuten Travel for its members. It can be used to deduct the room charges when booking hotel in Rakuten Travel website. Rakupon is one kind of fixed amount coupon and the discounted amount range from 100 yen to tens of thousands of yen, but mostly in 500 yen or 1,000 yen.

 

Rakupon generally has a period of validity. Some of them have quaitity limit, for example, only 100 pieces. When the quantity used rearch the limit, the unused coupon will immediately lapse.

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How to book Japan Hotel in Rakuten Travel Japanese website for Dummies – Cancel Booking

One of the main advantage of booking room in Japan online travel sites is that you don’t need to pay any money at the time of reservation, as well as don’t need to provide credit information.  Therefore you don’t need to worry about the trouble if you really need to cancel your booking in future due to the change of your trip planning.

 

However, even you haven’t pay any money at the time of booking and haven’t provide credit information, please complete the cancellation process in  Rakuten Travel website if you really need to cancel the reservation. The cancellation process is very simple. Please refer to the following procdure to cancel the booking.

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How to book Japan Hotel in Rakuten Travel Japanese website for Dummies – STEP 5 – Booking

【STEP - 5】Booking

After you have choose the hotel and stay plan, you can press the 「予約へ」 red button beside the room type to make the room reservation.

 

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How to book Japan Hotel in Rakuten Travel Japanese website for Dummies – STEP 4 – Find out Stay Plan

【STEP - 4】Find out Stay Plan

The hotels in Japan usually rent the room in the form of stay plan (宿泊プラン). Stay plan is the accommodation package categorized by different conditions such as with or without breakfast and dinner, advance booking, special festival offers, and so on. Each stay plan will be further broken down by room type.

 

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How to book Japan Hotel in Rakuten Travel Japanese website for Dummies – STEP 3 – Browse Hotel Details

【STEP - 3】Browse Hotel Details

In the previous step, the system will list out the hotels and stay plan that meet the search conditions with basic information. If you want to better understand the hotel and stay plan details, you need to visit the hotel pages in Rakuten Travel website.

 

The following paragraphs will take Hotel Sunroute Plaza Shinjuku as an example, to illustrate how to find the hotel information and stay plan details in Rakuten Travel website.

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How to book Japan Hotel in Rakuten Travel Japanese website for Dummies – STEP 2 – Search Hotels

【STEP - 2】Search Hotel

If you have already choose your hotel , you can igonre this step. Press here jump to next step.

Rakuten Travel website provides several methods to search hotel, I will introduce the most simple and popular one in this article.

 

1. Find the Japan map in the left hand side column of the Rakuten Travel website homepage.

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How to book Japan Hotel in Rakuten Travel Japanese website for Dummies – STEP 1 – Register the Rakuten Membership

【STEP - 1】Register the Rakuten Membership

It is not necessary to register as the Rakuten member in order to book hotel in Rakuten Travel website. Non-members also can make room reservation in its website. However, if you book the hotel in Rakuten Travel website with membership account, you can get at least the following two benefits:

 

First, you can get the Rakuten Supper Points reward after you complete the stay. Rakuten Supper Points is 1% on the room rates and it can be used in your next booking.

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