japan · Year round · best Mar–May, Oct–Nov
The Park Hyatt at midnight. The omakase counter where the chef does not hand you a menu. Ginza for the watches, Shibuya for the sneakers, Daikanyama for the bookshops. Tokyo, the city our clients always say is the one they will return to first.
Hotels
Book the room — handled personally.
Palace · 5★The Otemachi Tower address — eighty-four suites at altitude, the largest spa in the city, and the most considered service in Tokyo.
Icon · 5★The Lost in Translation tower, reopened December 2025 after a nineteen-month renewal — restored, not replaced.
Palace · 5★Marunouchi facing the Imperial Palace, Forbes Five-Star for the ninth consecutive year — the steady palace in the city.
Design · 5★Kengo Kuma for Ian Schrager, 206 rooms with Tokyo Tower views — the design hotel for the design-led week.
Ryokan · 5★The vertical ryokan in Otemachi — tatami floors, the shoeless rule, and a private onsen on the seventeenth.
Festive · clubs, line-ups, long lunches
Reserve the table for the night out — handled personally.
Grill · 52nd floorThe Park Hyatt grill on the 52nd, restored to its original black-and-chrome — the Lost in Translation bar, intact.
Modern French · 3★ MichelinShinobu Namae's three-star French-Japanese tasting room — Relais & Châteaux, Michelin Green Star, the most considered modern dinner in Tokyo.
Modern Australian · GinzaThe Ginza grill from the original Luke Mangan group, now independent — the late-night Australian kitchen in central Tokyo.
Authentic · the quiet rooms
Reserve the quiet dinner — handled personally.
Modern Japanese · 2★ MichelinZaiyu Hasegawa's two-star kitchen — the most quietly inventive Japanese tasting room in the city.
Sushi · Ginza counterThe Ono counter in the Ginza basement — ten seats, two seatings, hotel-concierge reservations only.
Kaiseki · 3★ MichelinSeiji Yamamoto's three-star kaiseki at Hibiya — fifteen consecutive years at three stars, and the fugu course from January to March.
Sushi · 3★ Michelin equivalentTakashi Saito's eight-seat counter — La Liste's world No. 1 (2024), reservations through regulars only.
Kaiseki · 2★ MichelinToru Okuda's Ginza counter — a 700-year-old cypress bar and the most refined kaiseki room in the district.
Sport · tennis, padel, polo, golf
Book the court · the green · the chukkers — handled personally.
Tennis · 10 clay courtsThe historic Minami-Azabu lawn tennis club — clay courts, 1900 foundation, the private club the international community has used for over a century.
Golf · day passThe forested 18-hole courses an hour out of the city on the Tomei Expressway — Kanagawa and Shizuoka, the round for the day off.
Spas & wellness
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Spa · 2,500 m²Two floors and 2,500 square metres above Otemachi — onsen-style baths, a thirty-metre pool on the skyline, and the city's reference treatment menu.