About this site

When a room costs what these rooms cost, nobody wants to get it wrong. The photographs on the hotel’s own site are beautiful, the scores on the booking sites are high, and neither tells you whether this is the stay you are looking for.

Meanwhile, the people who actually stayed have written it all down. Personal blogs, long write-ups on note, room tours on YouTube. These are more specific than any official page and more use than any score — but nobody collects them per hotel, so you end up searching again from scratch every time.

STAYLOG is a database that gathers those scattered accounts, hotel by hotel. The aim is simple: if you are looking into a hotel, this page should be enough.

Almost everything guests write about these hotels is in Japanese. We link to the originals in their own language and do not translate them.

What we do

• Collect the published stay reports, review articles and YouTube videos for each hotel and list them in one place
• Record what each one actually talks about — the view, breakfast, the lounge, and so on
• Make all of it searchable by area, price, facilities and the kind of stay you want
• Always leave a way back to the source

What we refuse to do

• We do not reproduce anyone’s writing. What we store is the title, the publisher, the author, the date, the URL, and the categories we assign ourselves.
• We do not replace articles with AI summaries. A summary that saves you the trip means the person who wrote it never sees you.
• We do not score hotels. What we publish is a count of how many pieces of writing touch on a given aspect. That is not a rating, and we never emit review scores as structured data.
• We do not invent prices. Every rate carries the date it was retrieved and where it came from, and we say plainly each time that it is not a live rate.
• We do not guess where public figures have stayed. Only what they or a publication have stated, with the source attached.

More pages is not the goal

Generate every combination of filters and you can have as many pages as you like. Pages with nothing in them help nobody. We only let a page into the search index once it clears a threshold: enough hotels, enough linked material, enough writing of our own.