Tokyo — Places to stay
Trains on the second, cats asleep in the lanes.
- Aman Tokyo — A high-rise retreat with 71 m² Deluxe Suites and Japanese soaking tubs.
- Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi — A central hotel with spacious rooms and Imperial Garden view options.
- HOSHINOYA Tokyo — An urban ryokan with floor lounges and an onsen.
- Hotel Metropolitan Tokyo Marunouchi — A rail-travel base linked to Tokyo Station’s Nihonbashi Exit.
- Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza PREMIER — A Ginza hotel with skyline views from its 16th-floor lobby.
- The Royal Park Hotel Iconic Tokyo Shiodome — High-rise rooms with access to Shimbashi and Shiodome.
- Tokyu Stay Shinjuku Eastside — A practical stay near Higashi-Shinjuku Station.
- Hotel Ryumeikan Ochanomizu Honten — A nine-room hotel rooted in a historic ryokan.
- Sotetsu Fresa Inn Tokyo-Kyobashi — A practical transport base within walking distance of Tokyo Station.
- UNPLAN Shinjuku — A Shinjuku hostel offering dormitories and private rooms.
- Shangri-La Tokyo — Top floors of a tower beside Tokyo Station, ideal before a bullet-train day
- The Peninsula Tokyo — Classic luxury across from Hibiya Park, three minutes' walk to Ginza
- Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel — A Shibuya five-star; Tokyo Tower, and Fuji on clear days, from the window
- Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo — Shinjuku's 1,453-room veteran, with airport buses from the door
- Hotel Gracery Shinjuku — The Kabukicho hotel with Godzilla's head peering over the roof
- Shibuya Stream Hotel (formerly Shibuya Stream Excel Hotel Tokyu) — Inside a new tower joined to Shibuya Station: no umbrella needed
- The Gate Hotel Kaminarimon by Hulic — Right by Kaminarimon, with Skytree views from the 13th-floor lobby and rooftop
- Dormy Inn Ueno-Okachimachi Hot Spring — Hot-spring baths and free late-night noodles, a walk from the Skyliner
- Sotetsu Fresa Inn Ginza-Nanachome — A Ginza address from about JPY 22,000, tidy, with a convenience store downstairs
- Nui. Hostel & Bar Lounge — A converted Kuramae warehouse whose ground-floor café-bar is the neighbourhood hangout
- Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo — Hotel with a 38th-floor lobby and city views
- The Okura Tokyo — Rebuilt Okura classic, Japanese design intact
- Hotel Niwa Tokyo — Mid-range hotel with a Japanese garden by Tokyo Dome
- Trunk Hotel — Harajuku back-street boutique with a social mission
- Sakura Hotel Ikebukuro — Ikebukuro budget stay with dorms and private rooms