Top tokai's are generally all the guitars of the Premium range. Those are starting to a fair price, actually around 168'000 yens for the LS168 you will have a simple but efficient plain top, with top construction and fairly good woods. I honestly don't see the attraction for the Honduras Mahogany. The regular african mahogany is of high quality on the Tokais. If a flamed top is important, you have the LS200 5A that is available. So not even 40'000 yens of difference and you are served.
A good plan is to search a used premium range from the early to mid 2000's. Because their sale price was lower, and so, interesting in the use market of today. A Tokai LS150 for example, was the equivalent of the actual 200. This is a price diff of around 500$. You will be able to offer good money to the seller, and in the same time, you will win some money in the process.
I made several bad experiences with Gibson guitars. I can't recommend this brand in any way. Even the RI and custom shop models that could be okay, I would be really careful not to buy them blindly, and I would not recommend them to an un-experienced buyer that can't know exactly if the guitar he's having in front of him is good or not. And in the internet age of consumption, it will probably be the case of a lot of us.
But I can recommend Tokai, Nik Huber, Jägers guitars and Warrior instruments. Those are brands that I didn't experienced a bad product of if you are willing to pay the price, and the contact I had with all of them was professional.