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Tokyo: Hotels

Tokyo abounds with top-notch western-style hotels; many of the best have opened since the millennium. Even basic hotels provide amenities you won’t find at most American hotels: toothbrushes, razors, pajamas or yukata (light cotton bathrobes) for sleeping, a pot in your room for making green tea, and complimentary internet access with your own laptop. Plus, many hotels have cutting-edge design – from soaring lobbies in the upper reaches of skyscrapers to walls of washi-paper sculpture. The one thing that virtually no Japanese hotel has, however, is lots of square footage or storage space in the rooms – so pack lightly.

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Children's Castle Hotel
This central hotel is meant for kids, solving the age-old dilemma of where to stay with the little dears – it also gets...
family

Crowne Plaza Metropolitan Tokyo
Metro station-adjacent tower with 800-plus guest rooms, internet, fitness center, and pool (open in summer). The “sky...
family | pool

Keio Plaza Hotel
The soaring Tokyo Metropolitan Government offices are just outside your window here, and on a clear day, you can see Mt. Fuji....
great value

Royal Park Shiodome Tower
Perched atop an office building (the lobby’s on the 24th floor and the rooms go up from there), the Royal Park offers...
great value | editor pick

The B Akasaka
Rooms here are typical size for Japanese “business hotels” (read: small), but the B has updated the concept with something...
business

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi
Just a three minutes’ walk to Tokyo Station (for easy arrival and quick getaways) is this 57-room den of noble, striated...
luxury | smart splurge | expensive | editor pick

Hotel Okura Tokyo
The public spaces of this old-time standby and longtime favorite of North American visitors (not least for its proximity to...
smart splurge | expensive | great location

Mandarin Oriental Tokyo
Where to begin at this 179-room gem atop the Nihombashi financial district? The lobby is on the 38th floor, decked out with...
smart splurge

Park Hyatt Tokyo
The sleek, minimalist rooms at the hotel made famous for its starring role in Lost in Translation sit atop a tower by Pritzker...
smart splurge | expensive

Ritz-Carlton Tokyo
Tokyo Midtown, the shopping/dining/entertainment/museum complex opened spring 2007, has become an overnight success, and we...
new | smart splurge | expensive

Hotel Asia Center of Japan
Rooms are clean but cramped, and you have to pay extra to connect your computer to the internet. But with rates one-tenth...
business | great location

Shigetsu Ryokan
Traditional Japanese inns are hard to come by in Tokyo, but this one in the Asakusa old town district has rooms with tatami...
culture | historic | editor pick

Toyoko Inn Chain
The words “Toyoko” and “Inn” are magic among budget travelers across Japan. Rooms are institutional,...

Villa Fontaine Roppongi
This chain sits at the top end of the budget category (and many rooms veer into the moderate range), but lots of freebies help...
great location

Children's Castle Hotel
This central hotel is meant for kids, solving the age-old dilemma of where to stay with the little dears – it also gets...
family

Crowne Plaza Metropolitan Tokyo
Metro station-adjacent tower with 800-plus guest rooms, internet, fitness center, and pool (open in summer). The “sky...
family | pool

Keio Plaza Hotel
The soaring Tokyo Metropolitan Government offices are just outside your window here, and on a clear day, you can see Mt. Fuji....
great value

Royal Park Shiodome Tower
Perched atop an office building (the lobby’s on the 24th floor and the rooms go up from there), the Royal Park offers...
great value | editor pick

The B Akasaka
Rooms here are typical size for Japanese “business hotels” (read: small), but the B has updated the concept with something...
business

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi
Just a three minutes’ walk to Tokyo Station (for easy arrival and quick getaways) is this 57-room den of noble, striated...
smart splurge | trendy | expensive | editor pick