JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED HOTELSHotels
All 116 hotels
Every hotel here was chosen for its interior design. Filter by area, or by what makes a stay in Japan different: a large shared bath, a natural hot spring, a room with tatami, a building with history, or a whole house for your group.
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
Rooms near Yokohama Station inspired by a cruise ship's cabins
Rooms with furniture and lights using Ueno's traditional crafts
Founded 1878: stay in Meiji and Showa buildings in Hakone
A European-classic hotel inside the Marunouchi Station Building, an Important Cultural Property
Founded 1935: a Swiss-chalet-style Registered Cultural Property
A hinoki main building in Momoyama palace style, designed by Kingo Tatsuno
Opened 1927: the grand staircase of the main building by Jin Watanabe
Where East meets West, in the former Kyoto Central Telephone Office
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
Kiyomizu-ware lights and Nishijin-weave foil
In front of Omicho Market: natural materials and local craftsmen's pieces
Art reflecting the “elements” of the forest, and a fireplace in the courtyard
A lobby bar lounge that borrows the scenery, and suites with a mizuya
Home-like rooms surrounded by Otaru crafts and art
A living room with a 5 m ceiling, and a private pool you can use with your pet
Shared spaces in traditional colours and sand walls, with old Kappabashi metalware
A wide lounge inspired by sajiki viewing seats
Custom furniture inspired by Nanbu chests and Nanbu ironware
Stay at a national Place of Scenic Beauty, in a lodging wing stripped of ornament
A wood-scented hotel themed on “THE BAR”
A Japanese spa of beautiful shadows, and residential suites of about 50 m²
Rooms with private pools, blending Art Deco and Okinawan modern
Light from skylights, and baths open to the living room
Roomy rooms you can bring your bicycle into
A manga lobby showing an imaginary shopping street
Rooms with saunas in dusty green and pink
A green lounge fitting a town of bonsai
Walls of hana-block, and a music bar inspired by Koza's music
The “Iyotetsu Room”, made from a real train
Villas with free-flowing hot spring baths and a Finnish sauna
A lobby with a lava sculpture and a huge noren curtain
A modern irori hearth, and a large bath that reflects the ripple of water
Curtains with a new pattern from Hakata festival happi coats
Festival manga covering the walls and ceiling
Plastered walls like rock strata, and coral carpets
An infinity pool overlooking Chatan, and blue-grey rooms
A harbour view from every room, and art by young artists
A large bath with an outdoor bath facing a Japanese garden
A “northern inn” of oak and Sapporo soft stone
An entrance lobby like the roji path to a tea room
“Plain space” rooms looking out over Atami Bay
A chandeliered lobby that modernises a classic hotel
Bed throws inspired by Ainu patterns and snowflake carpets
A delicate lobby and rooms with nature as the motif
A long corridor leading to coral-inspired art
“Creative hospitality” linking Japanese and international sensibilities
Kyoto-style corridors and rooms that bring in alleys and courtyards
Detached villas surrounded by a natural beach and old-growth forest
A Tokachi community inn where people gather round a wood stove
A library lounge themed on books
A creative hotel in Kabukicho made with young Asian creators
A Shibuya design hotel that is “minimal”, “pop” and “artistic”
“Light make-up” rooms that set off the quality of the architecture
A clubhouse built of “Japanese wood”
A nostalgic space making use of a temple carpenter's coffered ceiling
Japanese-Western rooms with a raised floor, and original furniture with a wood texture
“Hand Craft Design” with an ocean view from all 100 rooms
A lobby lounge with a hipped ceiling and large lattice doors
A grown-up design hotel of “quality”, “allure” and “play”
An “urban playground” unified in calm tones
Concept rooms made by artists
Long, narrow “machiya-style” rooms
“Wood, stone and earth” art using old timber and stones from the former Matsuzakaya
A lobby of art themed on forest, water and light
A lobby lounge showing kimono chosen by Chikiriya, changed every month
“Mai” rooms inspired by how a kimono is worn
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
An entrance welcoming you with round light, and a Japanese-style lobby
A lobby lounge with a relief of a flowering tree
Designed as “a journey from under the sea to the sky”, up to 165 m
Lobby art on the 18th floor inspired by golden sunset clouds
Rooms evoking Kaga Yuzen, lacquer and washi
Walls of stone and wood, and a lobby of light art
“Japanese bustle, Edo chic”, drawing on the world of kabuki
Wooden-floored premier floors where you relax barefoot
A top-floor lobby themed on “the breath of the forest”
A lounge facing the greenery, and a bright restaurant
Continuous art that sees the building as a rooted plant
Stone walls in a black-and-white checkerboard, and a cedar-board-style ceiling
Interiors inspired by the five colours of Hakata-ori “goshiki kenjo”
“WOODY BEAR”, a wooden bear made from salvaged furniture
Like staying in a temple museum, beside a 500-year-old temple
An oil painting in the lobby of Ueno's cherry, ginkgo and contour lines
A restaurant facing the greenery, and a large bath with big windows
“Light Place”, themed on sunlight through the trees of the City of Trees
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
A 20th-floor lobby with a mobile of washi and polarising film
A lobby of green and stone, and a lounge with botanical paintings
A made-to-order carpet inspired by the Seto Inland Sea
Wall art with Fibonacci's golden ratio as its motif
A lobby of wooden louvres and chandeliers
A lobby with a lattice ceiling, and Japanese-Western rooms with tatami and a mizuya
Rooms with a view bath looking out over the Sumida River
Shared spaces lined with nine art storages
A home-like lobby with house plants and an aroma distiller
Japanese-Western rooms facing the Kasugayama Primeval Forest, and a terrace deer visit
Bright rooms with large sloping windows, and a bar lounge made from a pool
Arched-window rooms inside a 1914 modern building
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