The 14 Best Luxury Hotels in Tokyo (2026)

Marunouchi, Otemachi and Nihonbashi: by Tokyo Station. This is where Tokyo keeps most of its luxury hotels, at the tops of office towers between the Imperial Palace and Tokyo Station. It suits a first trip with day trips in it: the shinkansen (bullet train) to Kyoto leaves from Tokyo Station, the Narita Express stops there, and the Ginza shops are a 15-minute walk south. The trade-off is that it's an office district, quiet after dark and at weekends, and 20 minutes or so by train from Shinjuku and Shibuya. Palace Hotel Tokyo is my overall pick. It faces the palace moat and gardens, it has 284 rooms and suites starting at 45 square metres, more than half of them with a balcony (rare in central Tokyo), the evian SPA and ten restaurants, bars and lounges. It holds three Michelin Keys for the third year running and shows a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star logo for 2026. For the rest of the hotels around the station, from The Tokyo Station Hotel to budget picks, see hotels near Tokyo Station.

It suits almost anyone, which is the point: couples, families, first-timers, people who want a calm base with real views. The catch is the location within the area: you're at the palace end of Marunouchi, 8 to 10 minutes on foot from Tokyo Station's Marunouchi North Exit, so luggage day is easier by taxi. The hotel connects underground to Otemachi Station, where five subway lines meet. Ask for a palace-side room with a balcony; it's what you're paying for.

Aman Tokyo is the quiet one. It fills the top six floors of the Otemachi Tower, with 84 rooms and suites; the entry-level Deluxe is 71 square metres. The Aman Spa has a 30-metre pool with city views, onsen-style hot baths and steam rooms, and the dining runs from Arva to Musashi by Aman, an omakase sushi counter. The tower connects to Otemachi subway station.

Book it if you want space, calm and very little fuss. The catch is that it's in the business district, so evenings mean a taxi or a train to Ginza, Shibuya or Shinjuku, and this is one of the most expensive hotels in the city. If the Imperial Palace gardens are the point, book the Deluxe Palace Garden View rather than a city-view room.

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi opened in September 2020 on the top six floors of the 39-storey Otemachi One tower, with 190 rooms and suites. It's the hotel for food and polish: Est, its French restaurant, is the headline, and the 39th floor holds a 20-metre indoor pool with a vitality pool. In the Michelin Key Hotel Selection 2026 it kept three Keys for a third year. It has direct access to Otemachi Station.

It suits couples and anyone treating the trip as a food trip, and the Four Seasons family programme makes it an easy luxury pick with children. The trade-off is the same as Aman's: Otemachi is offices, so there's not much street life on the doorstep at night. Ask which way your room faces before you pay: the palace side is the view you want.

Hoshinoya Tokyo is a ryokan in a tower. It opened on 20 July 2016: 17 storeys, 84 rooms, and each floor is a small six-room inn with its own lounge. You take your shoes off at the door, and the tatami runs from the entrance into the lift, the corridors and the rooms. On the top floor there's a guests-only hot spring, drawn from 1,500 metres below ground, with an indoor and an open-air bath, and you get a jersey kimono to wear around the building.

It suits couples and anyone who wants the ryokan experience without leaving the city, with the bullet train ten minutes' walk away at Tokyo Station. The catch: if you want a gym-and-pool hotel with a bar scene, this isn't it; the mood is quiet and inward. Read up on onsen etiquette before your first soak, because the baths are shared and the usual rules apply. For more ryokan in the city, see ryokan and onsen hotels in Tokyo.

Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo is the Nihonbashi pick, in the upper floors of the 38-storey Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower next to the Mitsukoshi department store. It has 157 rooms and 22 suites on floors 30 to 36, a spa on the 37th with a vitality pool, and a long list of restaurants and bars, including The Pizza Bar on 38th and a branch of Sushi Shin by Miyakawa. Mitsukoshimae Station is directly below.

It suits shoppers and food lovers who want old Tokyo's merchant quarter rather than Marunouchi's office blocks; the department stores and the food halls are at the door, and Ginza is a short ride. The catch is a spa with a vitality pool rather than a lap pool, and an 8-minute walk to Tokyo Station's Nihonbashi Exit.

Bvlgari Hotel Tokyo opened on 4 April 2023 as the brand's first hotel in Japan, on floors 40 to 45 of Tokyo Midtown Yaesu, on the east side of Tokyo Station. It has 98 rooms and suites, a 25-metre indoor pool with a vitality pool on the 40th floor, and Il Ristorante Niko Romito, which the hotel says has held a Michelin star every year since it opened. It's one of Tokyo's three hotels with three Michelin Keys in 2026.

It suits couples, design lovers and anyone who wants the newest glamour with the bullet train on the doorstep; the Bvlgari Bar is a destination on its own (see Tokyo's best rooftop bars). The catch: it's small and very expensive, and the Yaesu side is busy with station crowds by day. Kyobashi Station, on the Ginza line, is 3 minutes away, which makes Ginza and Asakusa easy.

Shangri-La Tokyo is the one closest to the trains: it's about a minute on foot from Tokyo Station's Nihonbashi Exit, with the lobby on the 28th floor of Marunouchi Trust Tower Main. It has 200 rooms and suites, a 20-metre pool, a spa and the Horizon Club lounge on the 37th floor for club and suite guests.

It suits business travellers and anyone with an early bullet train or a lot of luggage. The catch is that it's a reliable international luxury hotel rather than a memorable one, and the views from the station side are of rail tracks and towers. If you book a club room, you get the 37th-floor lounge.

Hibiya and Shiodome: by Ginza. These two sit on either side of Ginza, with more street life than Otemachi: theatres and Hibiya Park on one side, the Hamarikyu gardens and the bay on the other. The Peninsula Tokyo is the one I'd pick for a first luxury trip. It's on the corner across from Hibiya Park, directly connected to Hibiya Station, with 302 rooms (47 of them suites), a 20-metre indoor heated pool, and a spa on the 6th floor. Rooms look out over the park, the Imperial Palace gardens or the city.

It suits shoppers, theatre-goers and families: Ginza's department stores are a short walk, and the Peninsula's classic service is the draw. The catch is that Hibiya is busy with office workers and theatre crowds, and the room you get decides the view: book a park-facing room.

Conrad Tokyo occupies floors 28 to 37 of a Shiodome tower, with 290 rooms and suites starting at 48 square metres, a 25-metre indoor pool in the Mizuki Spa, and views over the Hamarikyu Gardens and Tokyo Bay. Shiodome Station is next door, and Ginza and the Tsukiji Outer Market are a walk away (see Tsukiji and Toyosu).

It suits families and points collectors (it's a Hilton brand), and anyone who wants a big room and a pool without Aman prices. The catch is Shiodome itself, a cluster of office towers joined by walkways that feels empty at weekends. Pay for a bay-view room: the city-view side looks at other towers, and the garden is the reason to stay.

Toranomon, Azabudai and Roppongi. South-west of the palace, the old embassy district has been rebuilt as Toranomon Hills and Azabudai Hills, with Roppongi's museums and nightlife next door. It's livelier than Otemachi in the evenings but off the JR Yamanote loop line, so most trips start on the subway. The Okura Tokyo reopened in 2019 as the successor to the famous Hotel Okura, in two buildings: the 41-storey Prestige Tower (368 rooms, starting on the 28th floor) and the low-rise Heritage Wing (140 rooms, about 60 square metres on average). There's a 25-metre, five-lane heated pool on the 27th floor that's free for guests.

It suits people who loved the old Okura, and families and longer stays that want a big, calm hotel with plenty of restaurants under one roof. The catch is the walk: Toranomon Hills Station is 5 minutes away and Roppongi-itchome 7, and the area is quiet and hilly. Pick the Heritage Wing for space, the Prestige Tower for views.

Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills is the relaxed, sociable luxury hotel. It's at the top of Toranomon Hills Mori Tower, with 164 rooms (standard rooms are about 50 square metres) on floors 47 to 50, The Tavern grill on the 51st, and the Rooftop Bar and a sushi counter on the 52nd, looking over Tokyo Bay. Toranomon Hills Station is about 3 minutes away underground.

It suits couples and younger travellers who want big rooms and a lively bar rather than formal service, and it's a good base between Ginza and Roppongi. The catch: the views and the bar draw outside guests, so the top floors are busy in the evening, and the terrace charges non-guests ¥2,200 a head after 8pm from March to December. There's more on the bar in Tokyo's best rooftop bars.

Janu Tokyo opened in March 2024 in Azabudai Hills, the newest of the big Mori developments, from Janu, Aman's younger, more social sister brand. It has 122 rooms and suites starting at 55 square metres on floors 6 to 13, a 25-metre heated lap pool and a separate lounge pool, two private Spa Houses with hot and cold plunge pools, and a string of restaurants and bars. Azabudai Hills connects directly to Kamiyacho Station on the Hibiya line.

It suits couples and wellness-minded travellers who want Aman-level space with more buzz, and anyone who likes being near Roppongi's galleries and Tokyo Tower. The catch: the rooms are low in the building, so you look at gardens and neighbouring towers rather than across the city, and it's newer than most here, so it has far fewer Google reviews. If the spa is your reason to go, ask about the private Spa Houses when you book.

Shinjuku. Shinjuku is the city's biggest station and its liveliest night out, with west-side skyscrapers and the bars of Kabukicho, Golden Gai and Omoide Yokocho on the east side. It suits a first trip and people who want to be out late. Park Hyatt Tokyo is the classic: the top 14 floors, 39 to 52, of Shinjuku Park Tower, with the New York Grill & Bar on the 52nd, made famous by the film Lost in Translation. It opened in 1994 and reopened on 9 December 2025 after a 19-month renovation, the most extensive in its history.

It suits film fans, couples and anyone who wants the skyline at night from the bar. The catch is the location: it's at the far western edge of the skyscraper district, a longer walk from Shinjuku Station than anywhere else here, so you'll take taxis more than you expect.

Bellustar Tokyo is the luxury hotel inside Shinjuku's nightlife: floors 39 to 47 of Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, with 97 rooms behind windows about seven metres wide, three restaurants (Restaurant Bellustar, Teppan Ten-yu and the Sushi JIN-È counter), Bar Bellustar and SPA sunya. It's about 7 minutes on foot from Shinjuku Station and a minute from Seibu-Shinjuku.

It suits couples and night owls who want to step out of the lift into Kabukicho and come back to a quiet room 200 metres up. The catch is the street below: Kabukicho is Tokyo's red-light and bar district, loud and bright until late, with touts to ignore, and the tower's lower floors hold a cinema, live venues and an arcade. There's a spa but no pool.