A record 42.7 million international arrivals descended on Japan in 2025, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization—and the bulk of them spend at least part of their time in Tokyo, choosing from the roughly 100,000 hotel rooms available across the city. As you could imagine, based on those numbers alone, the Tokyo hotel landscape is deep and competitive, including at the very top, where elevated hospitality is taken to new (literal) heights in Tokyo’s soaring high-rise towers. Almost every major luxury hotel brand has an outpost in the city, and several have more than one—hello, Four Seasons and Edition. Those that aren’t yet in Tokyo have immediate plans to be, with Waldorf Astoria and Dorchester Collection properties planned for the coming years, joining 2025 debutantes JW Marriott Tokyo and Fairmont Tokyo. For those who prefer staying at a hotel that isn’t also found in every other major city, enticing options abound like..
