HOSHINOYA Tokyo

"A modern-day ryokan offering a tranquil retreat in the heart of the city." - Christina Liao

"Hoshinoya Tokyo offers a tea lounge on every floor with complimentary Japanese snacks such as sesame rice crackers, fruit jellies, and cakes flavored with matcha and red bean." - Travel + Leisure Editors

"Before opening in 2016 in the lesser-known business district of Otemachi, this homegrown hotel chain drilled a kilometer and a half under Tokyo’s concrete to tap into a hot spring and draw its mineral-rich water. The 17-story tower has 84 rooms and feels more like a dozen ryokans than it does one hotel. Each floor, accessible only to guests staying on that floor, has its own central lounge—or ochanoma —for quiet relaxing with a pot of genmaicha. Every guest room is spacious with glass-walls, sliding latticed washi screens, bamboo closets, fragrant tatami mats, and supremely fluffy futons. It’s worth having dinner at the hotel’s guest-only restaurant which serves colorfully presented Nippon cuisine. Regardless of dinner location, every night should end at the open-air rooftop onsen—the reason behind the heroic drilling—for soaking while stargazing in the middle of the city." - Brandon Presser

"Hoshinoya Tokyo offers a modern take on a ryokan, balancing 84 contemporary rooms with tatami floors, ikebana flower arrangements, and an extraordinary open-roofed outdoor bath." - Nicola Chilton

"At Hoshinoya Tokyo, guests can visit the communal minibar in the private lounge on their floor for complimentary Japanese sport drink Pocari Sweat and azuki bean tea." - Nora Zelevansky