
The Asahi Shimbun / Dec 3With four new hotels due to open nearby by 2005, a turf war is heating up. ... In February, JR East will open the Hotel Dream Gate Maihama... will offer reasonable rates-from 6,000 yen per person including breakfast-and provide free lockers.... Kyutaro Doi, a professor at Yamanashi Gakuin University and a specialist in service industries:
``Since (the new park) DisneySea opened, it has become even more difficult to `do' Tokyo Disney Resort in a day,'' he says. ``Not everyone can afford to stay at a top-notch hotel.