JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED HOTELS36 hotels
Beautifully designed hotels in Tokyo
36 hotels in Tokyo, chosen for their interior design. Areas include Ginza, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Asakusa, Shiodome, Ueno. Each page has interior photos, check-in times where published, and how to get there, with the address in Japanese.
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
Shared spaces in traditional colours and sand walls, with old Kappabashi metalware
A Japanese spa of beautiful shadows, and residential suites of about 50 m²
A manga lobby showing an imaginary shopping street
Rooms with saunas in dusty green and pink
Festival manga covering the walls and ceiling
A creative hotel in Kabukicho made with young Asian creators
A Shibuya design hotel that is “minimal”, “pop” and “artistic”
A grown-up design hotel of “quality”, “allure” and “play”
A lobby of art themed on forest, water and light
Art themed on the “water” of Nihonbashi, which prospered by river transport
A high-floor lobby and bar overlooking Ginza at night
Giant fabric art in a double-height space
Designed as “a journey from under the sea to the sky”, up to 165 m
“Japanese bustle, Edo chic”, drawing on the world of kabuki
A top-floor lobby themed on “the breath of the forest”
Continuous art that sees the building as a rooted plant
Stone walls in a black-and-white checkerboard, and a cedar-board-style ceiling
An oil painting in the lobby of Ueno's cherry, ginkgo and contour lines
Herringbone floors and a bookshelf of blue tiles
A lobby welcoming you with a wall of light, and rooms with separate bath, toilet and basin
Wall art with Fibonacci's golden ratio as its motif
Rooms with a view bath looking out over the Sumida River
Shared spaces lined with nine art storages
A hotel by a Nordic design firm in a 1923 bank building
Rooms with furniture and lights using Ueno's traditional crafts
A European-classic hotel inside the Marunouchi Station Building, an Important Cultural Property
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
