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The Atta Terrace Club Towers earns its place here for building an Okinawa resort stay around the hills rather than just the beach. Set above Onna Village on the slopes of Onna-san, its 78 rooms and forest villas look through...
We added The Aoyama Grand Hotel as the design pick on this list: 42 rooms behind a plant-covered facade, three minutes from Gaiemmae Station in a neighbourhood known for fashion houses rather than tour buses. Contemporary lines, ample windows and...
We chose Osaka Marriott Miyako Hotel for the altitude: it occupies floors 38 to 57 of Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest skyscraper, with a Superior room's floor-to-ceiling windows alone outdoing most hotels' top suites. Teppanyaki restaurant ZK shares the building's top...
We picked InterContinental Hotel Osaka for its address alone: the third tower of Grand Front Osaka, directly over the city's main station, with guest rooms starting on the 21st floor so every one of them looks out over the city...
We chose Imperial Hotel Tokyo because no other address in the city carries this much institutional weight: open since 1890 on the same plot south of the Imperial Palace, it once housed a Frank Lloyd Wright building famous for surviving...
We added Hotel La Neige Higashi-kan for the one thing that matters most in Hakuba: distance to the lift. It sits a minute's drive, or a short walk in boots, from the Happo-One ski area, with the Sakka lift closer...
We chose Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo for the garden, which is older than the hotel by roughly a century and a half and would be a destination even without 267 rooms attached to it. Stone deities, a waterfall, and a pagoda...
We picked Hiyori Ocean Resort Okinawa because it solves the one problem most island resorts never quite do: how to make a hotel room feel like a home you would actually want to keep. Every one of its 200-plus suites...
Our choice here is a building, not a brand: a sukiya-style ryotei built in the late Taisho era, saved from Gion's long churn of teahouses and redevelopment and reopened, after a careful two-year restoration, as SOWAKA. The 23 rooms sit...
We picked InterContinental Yokohama Pier 8 for the illusion it pulls off: a resort folded into the middle of a working port city. Shinko Pier puts the hotel on Yokohama's working waterfront, closer to departing cruise liners than to office...
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