diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/core/annotations/di.js b/modules/angular2/src/core/annotations/di.js
index dbe1ce7143..bf9ad88f06 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/core/annotations/di.js
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/core/annotations/di.js
@@ -45,4 +45,12 @@ export class Attribute extends DependencyAnnotation {
     super();
     this.attributeName = attributeName;
   }
+
+  get token() {
+    //Normally one would default a token to a type of an injected value but here
+    //the type of a variable is "string" and we can't use primitive type as a return value
+    //so we use instance of Attribute instead. This doesn't matter much in practice as arguments
+    //with @Attribute annotation are injected by ElementInjector that doesn't take tokens into account.
+    return this;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/di/binding.js b/modules/angular2/src/di/binding.js
index efd709133d..684b97b6cd 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/di/binding.js
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/di/binding.js
@@ -140,8 +140,6 @@ function _extractToken(typeOrFunc, annotations) {
       }
       ListWrapper.push(depProps, paramAnnotation);
 
-    } else if (paramAnnotation.name === "string") {
-      token = paramAnnotation;
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/modules/angular2/test/core/compiler/element_injector_spec.js b/modules/angular2/test/core/compiler/element_injector_spec.js
index d99352df29..9998ef71ac 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/test/core/compiler/element_injector_spec.js
+++ b/modules/angular2/test/core/compiler/element_injector_spec.js
@@ -145,6 +145,13 @@ class NeedsAttribute {
   }
 }
 
+class NeedsAttributeNoType {
+  fooAttribute;
+  constructor(@Attribute('foo') fooAttribute) {
+    this.fooAttribute = fooAttribute;
+  }
+}
+
 class A_Needs_B {
   constructor(dep){}
 }
@@ -639,7 +646,7 @@ export function main() {
       });
     });
 
-    describe('static', () => {
+    describe('static attributes', () => {
       it('should be injectable', () => {
         var attributes = MapWrapper.create();
         MapWrapper.set(attributes, 'type', 'text');
@@ -652,6 +659,16 @@ export function main() {
         expect(needsAttribute.titleAttribute).toEqual('');
         expect(needsAttribute.fooAttribute).toEqual(null);
       });
+
+      it('should be injectable without type annotation', () => {
+        var attributes = MapWrapper.create();
+        MapWrapper.set(attributes, 'foo', 'bar');
+
+        var inj = injector([NeedsAttributeNoType], null, null, null, attributes);
+        var needsAttribute = inj.get(NeedsAttributeNoType);
+
+        expect(needsAttribute.fooAttribute).toEqual('bar');
+      });
     });
 
   });