Best Luxury Hotels in Tokyo: MICHELIN Key Winners
Tokyo is a hotel city, not an onsen town. The best luxury hotels in Tokyo include three that hold the top three MICHELIN Keys — Palace Hotel Tokyo, Four Seasons at Otemachi and Bvlgari Hotel Tokyo — with Aman Tokyo and its sibling Janu a tier below. This guide narrows the catalogue's 21 Tokyo stays to the clearest award-winning choices.
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The three-Key towers
The three top-rated hotels sit within a short walk of each other in the centre of the city. Palace Hotel Tokyo looks straight over the Imperial Palace moat; Four Seasons at Otemachi stacks its rooms high above the station district; and Bvlgari Hotel Tokyo takes the top floors of a new tower in Yaesu. Each is a city stay to the core — the view and the table do the work an onsen would elsewhere.
Aman, Janu and the quiet room
Aman Tokyo opened the idea that a resort brand could work as a city hotel, with a stone-and-timber calm high above Otemachi; Janu, its new sister at Azabudai Hills, is the more sociable version. And for something at the opposite end of scale, Auberge TOKITO keeps just four rooms on the city's western edge and charges accordingly — it is the priciest rated stay in the country.
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Should I stay in Tokyo for the onsen too?
Not really — Tokyo's rated stays are city hotels. For an onsen, add a night in Hakone (about 90 minutes out) or on the Izu coast; the two experiences barely overlap and the region makes doing both easy.
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