Stay · Otemachi
Hoshinoya Tokyo 星のや東京
A full-blown ryokan stacked into a 17-storey Otemachi tower: tatami everywhere, a stone-and-chestnut genkan where you take off your shoes, and a rooftop hot spring open to the sky above the financial district.
Nippon Cuisine dinner: ¥30,000
About
Hoshino Resorts opened Hoshinoya Tokyo in 2016 to prove that a Japanese inn could work as a skyscraper. Architect Rie Azuma wrapped the tower in a dark metal lattice cut with an Edo-komon pattern, so from the street it reads like a giant lacquer box among the glass offices of Otemachi. Inside, the logic is pure ryokan: you step out of your shoes at the entrance into a hall lined floor-to-ceiling with bamboo and chestnut shoe lockers, and walk on tatami from then on. Each floor has only six rooms and its own Ochanoma lounge, where tea, sake and snacks are laid out around the clock, so each floor functions like a small inn. At the top is a black, dim indoor-outdoor bath fed by hot spring water drawn from about 1,500 m below, with walls that frame nothing but sky. Dinner is a seasonal Nippon Cuisine tasting menu in the basement dining room. This is a place to stay rather than drop in: almost everything is reserved for guests, so non-guests mostly admire the lattice facade from the street.
Highlights
- Edo-komon lattice facade that makes the tower look like a lacquered box
- Genkan entrance with a wall of bamboo and chestnut shoe lockers; tatami floors throughout
- Ochanoma lounge on every floor, shared by just six rooms, with tea and snacks all day
- Rooftop onsen with natural hot spring water from about 1,500 m below Otemachi
- Seasonal Nippon Cuisine tasting dinner in the basement dining room
Tips
- Facilities, lounges and the bath are for staying guests; non-guests can only see the exterior
- Book the Nippon Cuisine dinner when you reserve the room because seats are limited
- Leave time in the evening for the Ochanoma lounge, where staff serve sake and seasonal sweets
- Combine with a walk along the Imperial Palace moats, five minutes west
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