Hotel Metropolitan Saitama Shintoshin

This is our first choice for staying in Saitama. The hotel is just a few steps from Saitama Shintoshin station with check-in on the 5th floor. Our stay was a couple of months before COVID restrictions were lifted and we were pleased with everything. The front staff helped us with several issues. The hotel restaurant was pricey, but there is a Royal Host "family restaurant" across the walkway where you can get a reasonable Western or Japanese meal. Every other kind of restaurants and shopping close by at Cocoon mall. The rooms are small but clean. We came from overseas and unfortunately there was no longer an ON-Liner bus from Narita Airport to the station area, but we got there by train quickly with luggage on the Keisei Skyliner with a change at Nippori.