Ten hotels in Ginza, Hibiya and Yurakucho, for calm streets, the best department stores and an easy ride everywhere, from the Imperial Hotel and The Tokyo EDITION, Ginza to business hotels a minute from the subway. Who each suits, and the honest catch.
Stay in Ginza if you want calm, well-kept streets, the best department stores and restaurants in Tokyo on the doorstep, and an easy ride everywhere else. Ginza Station has three subway lines, JR Yurakucho on the Yamanote line is at the western edge, and Tokyo Station and the bullet trains are 10 to 15 minutes' walk north. Don't stay here for nightlife or for value: the streets go quiet when the shops close, and rooms cost more than in Ueno or Asakusa. My short answer: the Imperial Hotel or The Tokyo EDITION, Ginza for a splurge, The Gate Hotel Tokyo or Millennium Mitsui Garden for a good mid-range base, and remm Hibiya or Tokyu Stay Ginza on a budget. To compare Ginza with the rest of the city, see where to stay in Tokyo; for what to do once you're here, the Ginza guide.
Don't worry too much about which station: Ginza, Higashi-Ginza and Hibiya are only a few minutes apart on foot, so a hotel near any of them gives you six subway lines within a short walk (Ginza, Marunouchi, Hibiya, Toei Asakusa, Chiyoda and Toei Mita). For Marunouchi, Yaesu and Nihonbashi, see our Tokyo Station hotels page. For The Peninsula Tokyo and the Marunouchi grand hotels, see luxury hotels in Tokyo, and cheap hotels in Tokyo has three more Ginza business hotels.
Rates change daily, so check each hotel's own site for your dates, and book early for New Year, the cherry blossom (late March to early April) and Golden Week (late April to early May), when they jump.
The grand hotels: Hibiya and Yurakucho. The western edge of Ginza runs into Hibiya, across the tracks from the Imperial Palace side of the city, and this is where the big names are. Imperial Hotel Tokyo is the classic: a huge, old-school full-service hotel facing Hibiya Park, with a pool, saunas and a gym on the 20th floor of its Tower Building, an executive floor, a beauty salon and a shopping arcade. It's 3 minutes on foot from exit A13 of Hibiya Station and about 12 minutes from Ginza Station, so it suits a traveller who wants a calm, formal base with Ginza's shops a short walk east.
The catch is that it's a big hotel built for business and banquets as much as for visitors, so it can feel busy in the lobby. If you're coming for the pool in early January, note it's closed from 6 to 8 January 2027 for a statutory inspection. For the Imperial Palace gardens and Marunouchi, it's one of the best-placed hotels on this page.
3 minutes on foot from exit A13 of Hibiya Station (Hibiya, Chiyoda and Mita lines); Ginza Station is about 12 minutes from exit B2.
The Tokyo EDITION, Ginza is the design pick: 86 rooms, 11 of them suites, on floors 3 to 13 of a low-slung building just off Chuo-dori, designed by Kengo Kuma with Ian Schrager. It has four places to eat and drink, including Punch Room (which the hotel calls Japan's first punch-focused cocktail bar), a brasserie and a rooftop bar, plus a gym. It suits couples and design fans who want a small, stylish hotel in the middle of the shopping streets.
It's a small hotel, with 86 rooms. There's a gym, and the EDITION spa is at its sister hotel in Toranomon. It sits at the 2-chome end of Ginza, so the main 4-chome crossing and Ginza Station are a walk south along Chuo-dori rather than outside the door.
Just off Chuo-dori at the northern (Kyobashi) end of Ginza; the hotel also has a punch-focused cocktail bar, Punch Room, and a rooftop bar.
The Gate Hotel Tokyo by HULIC is my mid-to-upper pick for location: by the hotel's own directions it's 1 minute from exit C1 of Ginza Station (Ginza, Hibiya and Marunouchi lines) and exit A1 of Hibiya Station, and 3 minutes from the Ginza exit of JR Yurakucho Station on the Yamanote line. That puts three subway lines and the JR loop at the door, with Ginza's main crossing and Hibiya Park both a few minutes away. It suits a first trip where you want to walk to Ginza's shops and still reach Shinjuku or Shibuya without changing trains.
It's a sister of THE GATE HOTEL Kaminarimon in Asakusa, from the same operator. The trade-off is the setting: the streets between Ginza and Yurakucho are some of the busiest in the area by day, so ask for a high floor if you're a light sleeper.
1 minute on foot from exit C1 of Ginza Station and exit A1 of Hibiya Station; 3 minutes from the Ginza exit of JR Yurakucho Station.
The middle of Ginza: Chuo-dori, Namiki-dori and Ginza 4-chome. The blocks around the Ginza 4-chome crossing and Ginza Station are the heart of the area: department stores, flagship shops and the restaurants of the side streets (see the Ginza guide for what to do). Hyatt Centric Ginza Tokyo is the stylish four-star here, with 164 rooms in a 12-storey building on Namiki-dori, on the site of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper's first Tokyo office. It opened in January 2018 as the brand's first hotel in Asia-Pacific, and it suits couples and first-timers who want a lively, design-led hotel in the middle of the shops.
It's a short walk to Ginza 4-chome. Namiki-dori is busy with bars and restaurants in the evenings, so ask for a higher floor if you want it quiet.
On Namiki-dori, the street that runs parallel to Chuo-dori; a short walk to the Ginza 4-chome crossing.
Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza Premier is the mid-range hotel with a view. The lobby is on the 16th floor, with panoramic views over the city, and Cocktail KARIN, a bar and lounge with a counter cut from 600-year-old karin wood, is on the same floor. It's at the southern, Shimbashi end of Ginza: 5 minutes on foot from JR Shimbashi's Ginza exit and from exit A1 of Higashi-Ginza Station, 10 minutes from exit A3 of Ginza Station.
It's the one to book if you'd rather have a high room and a JR station (Shimbashi, on the Yamanote line) than be on Chuo-dori itself. The trade-off is that the shopping heart of Ginza is a 10-minute walk north. It's also on where to stay in Tokyo, as the hub's Ginza mid-range pick.
5 minutes from the Ginza exit of JR Shimbashi and exit A1 of Higashi-Ginza Station; 10 minutes from exit A3 of Ginza Station.
Millennium Mitsui Garden Hotel Tokyo is my mid-range pick for the middle of Ginza: 1 minute from exit A1 of Higashi-Ginza Station (Hibiya and Toei Asakusa lines) and 2 minutes from exit A5 of Ginza Station, with Kabukiza theatre a short walk away. Rooms sleep up to three, and there's a relaxation room for massages in the evenings. The Toei Asakusa line at Higashi-Ginza runs through to both airports on some trains, which makes arrival easy.
It's a big, efficient hotel rather than a characterful one, and sheets are changed every three days unless you ask (rooms are tidied daily). JR Yurakucho is 10 minutes away, so for the Yamanote line you'll usually take the subway one stop instead.
1 minute from exit A1 of Higashi-Ginza Station, 2 minutes from exit A5 of Ginza Station, 10 minutes from the Ginza exit of JR Yurakucho.
Hotel Gracery Ginza is the good-value full-size hotel in 7-chome, next door to the GINZA SIX shopping centre: 3 minutes on foot from exit A3 of Ginza Station and 8 minutes from JR Shimbashi. The front desk is on the 3rd floor. It's from the same group as Hotel Gracery Shinjuku, the Godzilla-head hotel, and it suits first-timers who want a central Ginza address without a luxury bill.
Rooms are the compact Tokyo business-hotel kind, so check the size before you book with big cases. It's on a busy block of department stores, which is the point, but it means crowds at weekends.
3 minutes from exit A3 of Ginza Station, next to GINZA SIX; 5 minutes from exit A1 of Higashi-Ginza, 8 minutes from JR Shimbashi's Ginza exit. Front desk on the 3rd floor.
remm Hibiya is the budget-to-mid pick on the Hibiya side, in the Toho Theatre Creation building with the front desk on the 2nd floor, 1 minute from exit A5 of Hibiya Station and about 4 minutes from JR Yurakucho. remm is the Hankyu Hanshin group's sleep-focused brand (it calls its rooms bedrooms rather than guest rooms), and it suits solo travellers and couples who mostly want a good bed near the trains, with the Hibiya theatres and Tokyo Midtown Hibiya on the doorstep.
Rooms are small, built around the bed rather than a sitting area, so two people with two big suitcases will find it tight. Ginza's main crossing is about 5 minutes' walk east.
1 minute from exit A5 of Hibiya Station (Hibiya line), 2 minutes from exit A13 (Chiyoda line), about 4 minutes from the Hibiya exit of JR Yurakucho, about 5 minutes from exit C1 of Ginza Station.
Tokyu Stay Ginza is the long-stay and light-luggage pick: Tokyu Stay's thing is a washer-dryer in the room, so you can pack for a week and wash as you go. It's 3 minutes from exit A7 of Ginza Station and 2 minutes from exit A1 of Higashi-Ginza. It suits a longer trip, a family that goes through clothes fast, or anyone who'd rather not hunt for a coin laundry.
It's a business-hotel style building, so don't expect a lobby bar or much in the way of public space, and the room I'd pick is the larger double with a 180 cm bed and a bathroom separate from the toilet. Not every room type has a mini kitchen, so check the room page if you plan to cook.
3 minutes from exit A7 of Ginza Station, 2 minutes from exit A1 of Higashi-Ginza Station. The room types it lists have a washer-dryer.
Quintessa Hotel Tokyo Ginza is a budget-friendly business hotel about 2 minutes from exit A7 of Higashi-Ginza Station, a minute from Kabukiza, the kabuki theatre, and 4 minutes from Ginza Station. Higashi-Ginza's Toei Asakusa line runs to both airports without a change on some trains, and the Tsukiji Outer Market is a walk east. It suits budget travellers and theatre-goers who want a Ginza address at a business-hotel price.
Know this before you book: the hotel has posted that the building next door is being demolished from 3 August 2026 to 28 April 2027, 8am to 6pm, not on Sundays or public holidays, with noise and vibration expected. If you're out sightseeing all day it matters less; if you plan to rest in the room in the afternoon, pick another hotel until the work ends.
About 2 minutes from exit A7 of Higashi-Ginza Station, a minute from Kabukiza; 4 minutes from Ginza Station. Breakfast is at the Cafe de Crie on the ground floor.
Hibiya and Yurakucho: the grandest hotels, the park and JR Yurakucho; the streets around the station are busy by day.
Central Ginza: the shops and restaurants at the door, and three subway lines; the priciest rooms for the size, and crowds at weekends and holidays, when Chuo-dori closes to cars in the afternoon.
Higashi-Ginza and the Shimbashi end: better value, Kabukiza and the Tsukiji Outer Market close by, and the Toei Asakusa line to the airports; a 5 to 10 minute walk to the main crossing, and Shimbashi is an after-work drinking district.
Everywhere in Ginza: quiet evenings. For bars and late food you'll ride to Shinjuku or Shibuya, or use the small cocktail bars in the side streets.
Book on the hotel's own site where you can: Japanese hotels often keep member rates and the clearest cancellation terms there. Check whether breakfast is included before comparing prices, and check the room size; a standard Tokyo double can be under 20 square metres.
Most stays also pay Tokyo's accommodation tax, per person per night, worked out on the room-only rate. Until 31 March 2027 it's ¥100 for a rate of ¥10,000 to ¥14,999 and ¥200 for ¥15,000 or more, and stays under ¥10,000 pay nothing. From 1 April 2027 it becomes 3% of the room-only rate, and stays under ¥13,000 per person per night are exempt (Tokyo Metropolitan Government). The where to stay in Tokyo guide has the full table.
For arriving, the Toei Asakusa line at Higashi-Ginza runs through to both airports on some trains: see Haneda Airport to Tokyo and Narita Airport to Tokyo. To plan the days, our 5-day Tokyo itinerary and things to do in Tokyo are the place to start.
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