No. 01: Aman Tokyo アマン東京
Kerry Hill's atrium, a washi lantern the full height of the hotel
Stone and camphor wood run across the top six floors of Otemachi Tower.
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Tokyo 東京
Tokyo has twenty rooms in a 1923 bank annex and a ryokan seventeen storeys up in Otemachi. Three ranked editions of eight.
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No. 02: Palace Hotel Tokyo パレスホテル東京
An independent Japanese grand hotel on the Imperial Palace moat
Rebuilt in 2012, with rooms over the Wadakura moat and the palace gardens.
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No. 03: Hoshinoya Tokyo 星のや東京
A full ryokan, seventeen storeys high, among Otemachi's office blocks
Rie Azuma designed the tower, and Hoshino Resorts runs it. Shoes come off at the door, and there is a hot-spring bath on the roof.
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No. 04: Park Hyatt Tokyo パーク ハイアット 東京
Kenzo Tange's tower, reopened after its first closure in thirty years
Floors 39 to 52 of Shinjuku Park Tower reopened in December 2025 after a 19-month renovation, the most extensive in the hotel's history.
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No. 05: Bulgari Hotel Tokyo ブルガリ ホテル 東京
Ninety-eight rooms above the Shinkansen platforms at Tokyo Station
Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel designed the interiors, on the upper floors of Tokyo Midtown Yaesu.
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No. 06: Janu Tokyo ジャヌ東京
Aman's first Janu hotel, opened in 2024 inside Azabudai Hills
Denniston did the interiors. The 4,000 m² wellness floor is among the largest hotel wellness centres in the city.
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No. 07: The Okura Tokyo
A rebuilt Toranomon hotel with its 1962 lobby recreated
In the Heritage Wing, Yoshio Taniguchi recreated the 1962 lobby designed under his father, Yoshiro Taniguchi. The hotel was rebuilt in 2019 and is Japanese-operated.
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No. 08: Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi フォーシーズンズホテル東京大手町
Jean-Michel Gathy's 190 rooms above the Imperial Palace gardens
Otemachi One's upper floors hold the hotel, with interiors by Denniston. Its pool and bar face the palace grounds.
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Boutique Edition
Smaller hotels
No. 01: K5
Twenty rooms and four bars in a 1923 bank annex
Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune renovated the former Daiichi Bank annex in Kabutocho, the old financial district. Its independent food and drink includes a coffee roaster and a beer hall.
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No. 02: TRUNK(HOTEL) Yoyogi Park トランクホテル 代々木公園
A rooftop pool at the edge of Yoyogi Park
Norm Architects worked with Keiji Ashizawa Design on the 25 rooms. The hotel is Japanese-operated and independent of the chains.
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No. 03: TRUNK(HOTEL) Cat Street トランクホテル キャットストリート
The first TRUNK, fifteen rooms with a lobby the neighbourhood uses
Opened in 2017, it started Tokyo's 'socialising' boutique wave. A lobby bar and a wedding chapel share the building with the rooms off Cat Street.
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No. 04: Yuen Bettei Daita 由縄別邸 代田
An onsen ryokan with a garden, ten minutes from Shimokitazawa
Hot-spring water comes by truck from Hakone. UDS runs the 35 rooms and a tea salon in a residential corner of Setagaya.
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No. 05: TOMI. Ginza
Eight suites, one per floor, in a former Shintomicho hostel
Keiji Ashizawa Design converted the narrow building, and each suite is self-contained.
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No. 06: FUFU Tokyo Ginza
Thirty-four rooms in Ginza 1-chome, each with its own hot-spring bath
KPG opened this ryokan-style hotel in November 2025, a few streets from the Ginza flagships.
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No. 07: The Aoyama Grand Hotel
Forty-two rooms on the old Bell Commons site, with a rooftop bar
Plan·Do·See, the company behind many Tokyo restaurants and venues, runs it. The interiors are mid-century.
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No. 08: Gajoen Tokyo 雅叙園東京
Sixty suites beside the 1935 Hyakudan Kaidan, the 'hundred-step staircase'
The site dates to 1928, and the Showa-era decorative interiors of the Hyakudan Kaidan are next door. It was rebranded under LXR in 2026.
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Value Edition
Under ¥60,000 a night
No. 01: hanare
Five rooms, with Yanaka's bathhouse and bicycles as the lobby
The architects behind HAGISO run it. Guests bathe at the local sento, eat in the neighbourhood and borrow bicycles to get around.
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No. 02: SOIL Nihonbashi Hotel
Fourteen rooms over a bakery and bar in Ningyocho
Kiyoaki Takeda Architects designed the building, which opened in September 2025. The bakery and the bar take the street level.
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No. 03: Hotel Siro
Ten storeys in Ikebukuro, with three design teams on the rooms
Mount Fuji Architects Studio is credited with the building, three minutes from Ikebukuro Station. Three separate design teams did the interiors of its 41 rooms.
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No. 04: Hotel 1899 Tokyo ホテル1899東京
Japanese tea runs through the rooms and the ground-floor restaurant
The Ryumeikan family company runs it, and its history goes back to an 1899 ryokan. Tea also turns up in the amenities.
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No. 05: Kaika Tokyo KAIKA 東京
A converted Sumida warehouse across the river from Asakusa
Contemporary art storage and exhibition space share the building with the rooms, and the KAIKA TOKYO AWARD is run on site. It belongs to The Share Hotels.
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No. 06: Hamacho Hotel Tokyo HAMACHO HOTEL
A greenery-wrapped hotel with a chocolate maker at street level
UDS designed it in-house, on a Nihonbashi Hamacho street of independent shops and cafés.
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No. 07: BnA_WALL
Twenty-six rooms in Odenmacho, made with 23 artists and creators
An art hotel that pays a share of every night's rate back to the artist behind the room.
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No. 08: Sawanoya Ryokan 澤の屋旅館
A Yanaka family ryokan taking foreign guests since 1949
One of the few Tokyo ryokan that cater almost entirely to overseas visitors. There are two Japanese baths, and the family owner is hands-on.
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