9 hotels · Japan
The great hotels of Tokyo
9 luxury hotels in Tokyo are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, Imperial Hotel, opened in 1890; the most recent, Bulgari Hotel Tokyo, in 2023. For large events, The Okura Tokyo receives up to 2000 guests. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
Aman Tokyo
Kerry Hill's 30-metre lobby, cut like a paper lantern into the top six floors of the Otemachi Tower, opened in December 2014 as the first city Aman.
84 rooms
Bulgari Hotel Tokyo
Bulgari's eighth hotel opened in April 2023 on the top six floors of Tokyo Midtown Yaesu, beside Tokyo Station, with 98 rooms by ACPV Architects.
98 rooms
Park Hyatt Tokyo
Fourteen floors at the top of Kenzo Tange's Shinjuku Park Tower, with the New York Grill on the 52nd and the pool under a glass roof on the 47th.
177 rooms
Hoshinoya Tokyo
A 17-storey ryokan in Otemachi where shoes come off at the door and the top floor has open-air hot-spring baths fed from 1,500 metres below the city.
84 rooms
Imperial Hotel
Japan’s first great Western-style hotel, opened in 1890 opposite Hibiya Park and the Imperial Palace.
The Okura Tokyo
The 1962 lobby by Yoshiro Taniguchi, with its hexagonal lanterns and plum-blossom seating, was rebuilt piece by piece for the 2019 reopening.
508 rooms · Events up to 2000
The Peninsula Tokyo
A 24-storey tower on the corner of Yurakucho that looks straight across Hibiya Park to the moat of the Imperial Palace, opened by the Kadoorie family in September 2007.
314 rooms
Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo
The lobby sits on the 38th floor of César Pelli's Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, and the hotel occupies only the top nine storeys above the city's oldest merchant quarter.
179 rooms
Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo
A Muromachi-era pagoda and a garden planted by a Meiji prime minister in 1878 anchor Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo, Japan's first Four Seasons in 1992.