JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED HOTELS
© UDS (official website: “&Here SHINJUKU”)Japan's best-designed hotels
116 hotels chosen for their interiors, from Meiji-era classics and ryokan with hot springs to machiya-style rooms in Kyoto and villas on Okinawa's islands. Every fact comes from the official website or the designer's project page.
Planning a trip to Japan?
Find a hotel that makes the stay part of the trip — a large shared bath after a day of walking, a natural hot spring, a room with tatami, a building with a hundred years of history. These labels come only from official information. New to Japanese hotels? Read staying at a hotel in Japan first: large baths, tattoos, slippers and check-in.
Collections for your trip
Hotels grouped by sights, by Japanese experiences and by day trips
3 hotels
NOHGA HOTEL in Tokyo and Kyoto
NOHGA HOTEL builds each hotel around its neighbourhood: local crafts in Ueno, music in Akihabara, and…
6 hotels
Hotels near Asakusa, Ueno and Tokyo Skytree
Hotels in Asakusa, Ueno and along the Sumida River — the side of Tokyo visitors go to for Senso-ji temple…
12 hotels
Hotels near Tokyo Station, Nihonbashi and Ginza
Stay where the Shinkansen leaves from and Tokyo's department stores begin. A hotel inside the Marunouchi…
9 hotels
Tokyo hotels with a large bath or hot spring
After a long day of walking, a Japanese-style large shared bath (daiyokujo) is one of the best parts of a…
6 hotels
Hotels near Gion, Kiyomizu-dera and Higashiyama
Kyoto's eastern side is where most first-time visitors spend their days: Gion, Yasaka and the slopes up to…
9 hotels
Stay like a ryokan: hot springs, tatami and sukiya rooms
Hotels that let you try a Japanese inn without giving up the comforts of a hotel: ryokan-style hotels with…
Featured hotels
Places whose interiors are a reason to stay
A night-view terrace, and rooms that switch to neon
A 38th-floor executive floor that reflects the night view
A beer bar and café on the first two floors: Shibuya's public house
Fittings from a thatched farmhouse, and an outdoor bath of Hakone spring water
A sukiya gate and garden, and an outdoor hot spring bath on the 18th floor
Paving stones from the old tram line, and steel from old ships
Craftsmanship, and greenery all the way up to the balconies
A “creators' residence” with a fashion cloak at the entrance
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The latest hotels we have added
A “tower ryokan” among the Otemachi office blocks, with a top-floor open-air bath
Speakers chosen for sound in every room: a hotel of music, art and food in Akihabara
Glamping cabins with terrace living rooms on a hillside above Lake Kawaguchi
A hotel by a Nordic design firm in a 1923 bank building
A 300-year-old inn turned art hotel, with architecture by Sou Fujimoto
A nine-room hotel on the Shirakawa, designed by Tadao Ando
A Yasaka hotel carrying on a 100-year-old ryotei's sukiya architecture
A sukiya inn in Setoda carrying on a 150-year-old merchant's residence
How to read this site
Three things we do on every page
Each page follows the hotel in the order you would see it: the entrance, the lobby, the rooms, the bath or the restaurant.
Each page shows the hotel's name and area in Japanese — e.g. 東京都新宿区 — with a copy button and a large view to show a taxi driver.
Check-in times, baths and designers come from official websites and designers' pages. If something is not published — tattoo rules for the bath, for example — we say so instead of guessing.
