Destinations · Tokyo
Tokyo
9 Nights · One city, done properly.
✦ Unpack once. Every private guide, car and transfer handled, so you never arrange a thing on the ground
Destinations · Tokyo
9 Nights · One city, done properly.
✦ Unpack once. Every private guide, car and transfer handled, so you never arrange a thing on the ground
Nine Nights, One City
Most people give Tokyo three nights on the way to Kyoto, and it is not enough. This is thirteen million people and a dozen cities inside one, and nine nights lets you live in it rather than tick it off. You unpack once. The old temple quarters, the neon and the department-store food halls, the imperial gardens, and Mount Fuji a morning away, at your own pace with a car and a guide when you want one and nothing at all when you don’t. Gay-owned, and welcoming to all.
The low city on the east side: Senso-ji and its pagoda, the craft streets of Yanaka, and Ueno’s museums and park. The oldest, most human part of the capital, best walked in a morning before the crowds.
Meiji Jingu in its cedar forest, then out into Harajuku, the Shibuya crossing, and Ginza after dark. The whole of Tokyo’s contradiction in a single afternoon, from a silent shrine to the loudest street in the world.
One private day out of the city with a car and driver of your own: the ropeway over the steaming Owakudani valley, a cruise on Lake Ashi, and the red torii rising out of the water with Fuji standing behind it.
Where You Stay
Tokyo’s grand hotel, and the most central address in the city. It is the honest way to do Tokyo at the highest level without the tower-suite premium, and it puts you on the doorstep of the Imperial Palace gardens with the whole city walkable or a short car ride from the door.
Tokyo’s grand hotel since 1890, on Hibiya Park and facing the Imperial Palace. A lobby that is a landmark in itself, faultless old-world service, and the most central base in the city.
The Classic Journey · 9 Nights
Where You Stay
The top nine floors of a tower over Nihonbashi, so every room opens onto the city. Two Michelin-starred dining, the finest spa in Tokyo with the skyline through the glass, and the level of polish that has made it the address for a certain kind of traveler. This is the tier most of our clients book.
High above Nihonbashi, every room facing the city and the mountains beyond it. Two-Michelin-starred dining downstairs and, at the top, the spa most people remember longest.
The Club Journey · 9 Nights
Or, the city at its most rarefied
An urban sanctuary on the top of Otemachi Tower: a soaring lobby in dark stone and washi paper, a thirty-metre pool in the sky, and rooms of complete calm above the Imperial Palace gardens. The quietest, most rarefied stay in the city, and the one you never want to leave.
The whole top of Otemachi Tower given over to stillness: a soaring stone-and-paper lounge, a pool in the sky, and rooms that look down on the Palace gardens. Nowhere in Tokyo is calmer.
The Aman Journey · 9 Nights
Beyond the Hotel
Every journey above already includes its private guided days — three, or four on the Aman — with a car and guide, one of them a day out to Mount Fuji and Hakone. These are the experiences worth adding on top, each priced to the day once you have your dates.
The gilded shrines and towering cedar avenues of Toshogu, the waterfalls and the lake beyond, a couple of hours north of the city. A full private day with a car and guide of your own, and a complete change of air from Tokyo.
Priced on request
The giant bronze Daibutsu, the coastal temples and the bamboo garden of Hokoku-ji, an hour south of the city by the sea. A gentle, beautiful counterweight to Tokyo, and an easy private day out.
Priced on request
Hama-rikyu by the bay, the Nezu Museum’s garden, Rikugien in the north: the great strolling gardens of the old city, and a proper tea ceremony in one of them, at a pace that is the opposite of everything else in Tokyo.
Priced on request
Turn the Mount Fuji and Hakone day into an overnight: a traditional onsen ryokan on the mountain, tatami and a private hot-spring bath and a multi-course kaiseki dinner. The single most restful night of the whole trip.
Priced on requestGood to Know
Spring brings the cherry blossom and autumn the maples; those are the two windows people remember. Summers are hot and humid, winters clear and cold, and Tokyo is wonderful in any month.
Nonstop from the US west coast to Haneda in about eleven hours, right in the middle of the city, and one stop from almost everywhere else. Haneda is twenty minutes from these hotels by the car we send, so the long flight ends properly rather than in a train queue.
Tokyo has deep hotel inventory most of the year, so six months is comfortable. Spring and autumn are the exception: the best rooms and top suites sell out first, so a year ahead is wise.
Gay-owned · Welcoming to all
We book Tokyo ourselves. We know which rooms face the Palace and which look at an air-conditioning unit, every rate above carries breakfast and an upgrade where one exists, and a driver meets you past customs rather than a voucher and a train map. Tell us your month and we will price it to the dollar.
