Japan accommodation toolbox for a small family: (1) Rakuten Travel and Jalan.net — Japanese-domestic booking sites; often have rooms and rates the international engines (Booking, Agoda) miss, especially in smaller cities. Both have decent English UIs. (2) Booking.com still solid for filtering 'fam...

A friend told me yesterday that they used chatGPT to plan their whole Japan trip including their accom. They were pleased with the outcome.

I usually stay in hotels. Wife has stayed in Airbnbs but says they are not as good. Hotels fairly affordable id say.

You can get 4% sats back if you book accommodations with hotels.com and pay with gift cards you buy from nostr:npub18tcc00lqpysdsurg567dllzg7jeyr5wcyk2v6w23rx3s3ygyze2qv32nxx In my experience hotels.com has very competitive rates and I like their service. If you do go this route I have a referral ...