JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED HOTELS9 hotels
Hotels with tatami rooms in Japan
9 hotels in Japan with tatami, a raised koagari area or Japanese-style rooms, as stated in official sources. Areas include Shinjuku, Takamatsu, Hommachi, Kyoto Station, Kanazawa, Nara. Each page has interior photos, check-in times where published, and how to get there, with the address in Japanese.
A sukiya gate and garden, and an outdoor hot spring bath on the 18th floor
A library lounge themed on books
Japanese-Western rooms with a raised floor, and original furniture with a wood texture
Long, narrow “machiya-style” rooms
A lobby with a lattice ceiling, and Japanese-Western rooms with tatami and a mizuya
Japanese-Western rooms facing the Kasugayama Primeval Forest, and a terrace deer visit
A nine-room hotel on the Shirakawa, designed by Tadao Ando
Where East meets West, in the former Kyoto Central Telephone Office
A “tower ryokan” among the Otemachi office blocks, with a top-floor open-air bath
