Aman Tokyo

A 5-star hotel of 84 suites, according to the MICHELIN Guide and Tripadvisor, at the top of the Otemachi Tower: the lobby and Arva on the 30-third floor, the spa on 33 and 34, the Garden View Suites on the 30-eighth, as the suite’s page puts it. It was Aman’s first city hotel and opened at the end of 2014, according to Travel Weekly.

Its interiors are by Kerry Hill’s studio, as the Pâtisserie’s page notes, and the MICHELIN Guide awards it 2 Keys. The official site does not print the number of suites.

7 types, all suites, on the official accommodation page. The 3 Suites: the Deluxe and the Garden View at 71 m², one facing west towards the sunset and the other on the top floor over the gardens, and the 77 m² Tokyo Suite, facing east. The 4 Signature Suites: the 121 m² City Suite in the north-east corner, the 139 m² Panorama on the corners, the 141 m² Grand and the 157 m² Aman Suite, the largest, with a table for 6.

All have floor-to-ceiling windows, shoji and a furo tub; the Signature Suites add a powder room and a wine cellar. A guest in June 2026 gives the Deluxe 77 m², where the site says 71.

At 1-5-6 Otemachi, in Chiyoda, between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace moat, according to the official page. At the foot of the tower lies the Otemachi Forest, a 3,600 m² wood with the Café in it.

Otemachi is the business district, as both the site and Tripadvisor describe it, and Hotels for Kings advises nightlife seekers to look elsewhere. In the evening the liveliest place is the lobby with its Lounge, which outside visitors use too.

On foot from the tower, calculated on 7 October 2026 on OpenStreetMap’s streets: 7 minutes and 536 metres to the Marunouchi North Exit of Tokyo Station, 8 minutes and 619 metres to Ōte-mon, the gate of the Imperial Palace East Gardens, 20 minutes to Nijūbashi bridge, 14 to Nihonbashi Bridge and 24 to the Wako crossing in Ginza.

Google’s listing says 4 minutes to the station and 2 km to the Imperial Palace: the station exit is 7 minutes away, and the gardens’ gate under 700 metres. The East Gardens are free and close on Mondays, Fridays and from 28 December to 3 January, according to the Imperial Household Agency.

By car: 40 minutes from Haneda, which handles domestic flights and a growing number of international ones, and 60 from Narita, according to the «Getting here» page. The hotel arranges a limousine for transfers, and private jets or helicopters to Amanemu.

Rail travellers arrive at Tokyo Station, 5 minutes away by car according to the hotel, which sends a car on request; the tower is also linked to Otemachi metro station. Aman can have luggage shipped ahead by courier.

Yes: the Google Hotels listing shows parking, both self-parking and valet, and Tripadvisor lists valet parking. A guest describes the ground-floor car lobby, where staff greet and see off each car.

The official site says nothing about parking, and no source we read publishes a charge. For transfers the hotel offers its own limousine.

Not directly: the hotel is in the city centre, with no access to the sea. The way onto the water that the hotel offers is a private cruise on the Sumida River, 90 minutes down to Tokyo Bay for 2, with Champagne, flowers on board and the transfer to the pier.

There is one, indoors: 30 metres long, heated, on the spa floor, lined with double daybeds and floor-to-ceiling windows onto the city, according to the spa menu. One Tripadvisor guest calls it 40 metres; the site says 30.

Google’s listing adds a hot tub: the official menu puts hot plunge pools in the changing areas. The site mentions no outdoor pool.

It is heated and open daily from 6.30am to 10pm, along with the baths, according to the wellness page. The water temperature is not published. Children up to 15 swim with an adult; nobody in nappies.

In 4 restaurants open to non-residents too, according to the official page. Arva, Italian, on the 30-third floor: lunch 11.30am to 3.30pm, dinner 5.30pm to 10pm. Musashi by Aman, Edomae omakase sushi, dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday. The Lounge, 11am to 10pm, with afternoon tea until 4.30pm. The Café, in the forest, 11am to 9pm.

Then La Pâtisserie, on the tower’s B2 floor, for cakes and bread to take away, and room service: lunch and dinner from 11am to 9.30pm, the midnight menu until 7am. Arva’s menus run from 9,500 yen at lunch to 33,000 at dinner, service and tax included, as the dinner menu prints.

Yes, when you book on the site: the accommodation page lists it among what every stay includes, and the 3-hotel Japan offer specifies a choice of Japanese or American set. Google Hotels’ listing marks it as an extra charge.

In the suite it can be ordered at any hour: the breakfast menu prices the Japanese and American sets at 8,048 yen. The restaurant stops serving at 10am, a guest reported in August 2026; another found only à la carte, a third a mix of buffet and menu.

It covers almost 2,500 m² on floors 33 and 34: 8 treatment rooms, each with a dressing room, bathroom, steam shower and relaxation area, a gym with Technogym and Life Fitness equipment, and a yoga and Pilates studio with Allegro reformers, according to the spa menu.

The changing areas, separate for men and women, hold aroma steam rooms, Japanese and Western showers and hot plunge pools: the Misogi baths, named after the Shinto ritual of purification by water. There is no dry sauna, although Google’s listing includes one.

For hotel guests, yes: the pool, baths, steam rooms and gym come with every stay, as do the scheduled free classes, according to the accommodation page. Treatments cost extra.

The site publishes only treatments by appointment: no page we read offers a day pass to the pool or baths for non-residents. The wellness day in the spa menu includes use of the pool, steam room and Japanese bath.

Pool and baths 6.30am to 10pm, treatments 10am to 10pm with the last at 9pm, gym round the clock, according to the wellness page. The menu advises booking ahead on extension 24, arriving up to 60 minutes early for the baths, and asks for 6 hours’ notice to cancel without charge.

The spa opens at 6.30am, as the wellness page says, read on 15 October 2026; the «6.30pm» printed for the reception in the spa menu does not match it.

The menu opens with the signature journey: a scrub of camphor, kuromoji powder and Japanese clay and a 90-minute massage blending shiatsu with Western techniques. Then shiatsu, acupuncture, cosmetic acupuncture included, reflexology, hot-stone massage, seasonal journeys with Japanese herbs and facials, from 60 to 180 minutes.

The menu gives durations but no figures, and states that its yen prices include a 15% service charge and 10% consumption tax. The calendar also offers zazen led by a monk and evening yoga; from 13 October to 2 November 2026 a visiting therapist offers craniosacral sessions.

No official page we read, nor the spa menu, sets a rule on tattoos. The menu asks for proper attire for wellness activities and provides underwear and robes for treatments; the hot baths sit inside the changing areas, separate for men and women.

The pool calls for a swimsuit: a guest in October 2025 tells others not to forget one. The menu bans phones and smoking in the spa and admits guests from 16 years old.

Yes. The 141 m² Grand Suite, with king or twin beds, is the one the site suggests for families, and Google’s listing includes babysitting. Room service has a children’s menu.

The limits: spa, treatments and gym from 16, the pool with an adult up to 15 and no nappies, Musashi by Aman from 13. A family in July 2026 describes staff who were very attentive to their 21-month-old. The sources we read give no price for cots or extra beds.

The spa with its pool, gym and yoga studio, 4 restaurants, La Pâtisserie, a boutique, a boardroom and the Otemachi Forest, according to the official pages. The concierge arranges outings: an hour’s rickshaw tour of Otemachi or Nihonbashi, iaido swordsmanship, sumo training, a sushi lesson at Musashi, as the experiences page lists.

Google’s listing adds 24-hour room service, laundry, currency exchange and a doctor on call. The sources we read do not say whether pets are allowed.

4, on the offers page read on 7 October 2026. Stay 5 nights or more in a Deluxe, Garden View, City or Grand Suite and every fifth night is free, until 15 March 2028. Stay 3 nights before 18 December 2026 and get a 20,000 yen credit for the spa, restaurants and minibar, with blackout dates.

The journey across Aman’s 3 Japanese hotels, Tokyo, Kyoto and Amanemu, needs at least 2 nights at each and brings an upgrade, 10% off dining and spa and early arrival when possible; the Signature Suite stay, from 3 nights, includes airport transfers and a credit.

Yes: the celebrations page offers a Shinto or a contemporary ceremony against the city, with the reception at Arva, on the 30-third floor, or at the Café in the forest, planned by the hotel’s wedding team.

The site publishes no prices, capacities or packages and sends enquiries to its contact form. For meetings there is the boardroom, its long table set before a window 2 storeys high.

Yes. The 2026 festive programme has the «Cenone» gala dinner at Arva on 31 December 2026, 6pm to 9pm: 6 courses of Japanese ingredients and Italian family recipes, a glass of Prestige Champagne and live music. Then the countdown in the Lounge, 9.30pm to 12.30am, with Champagne and caviar.

In the suite, from 5pm to midnight, there is year-end soba; on 1 January come the New Year Japanese breakfast, the Kagami Biraki sake ceremony and a lion dance. The programme publishes no prices.

No: no official page mentions golf. The activities the hotel arranges are cultural and urban, from a Sumida River cruise to a visit to a sumo stable, according to the experiences page.

All year: the official pages announce no closure of the hotel, and on Google Hotels, read on 7 October 2026, all 116 nights from 8 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 had a price.

Some outlets close in turn: Musashi by Aman always on Sundays and Mondays, and it was shut for maintenance from 26 September to 7 October 2026; La Pâtisserie on Sundays. The official calendar of the Japan offer marks peak season from 20 December 2026 to 3 January 2027 and from 15 March to 5 May 2027.

Google Hotels, read on 7 October 2026, 2 adults, one night, taxes and fees included: 536,320 yen on 8 October 2026, 566,681 yen on 18 October, 606,400 yen on 15 November, 415,008 yen on 7 December, 880,440 yen on 24 December, 740,080 yen on 31 December and 389,488 yen on 12 January 2027.

Every one of the 116 nights read had a price, from 389,456 yen on 4 January 2027 to 880,440 yen on Christmas Eve: the calendar shows the day’s lowest rate without naming the suite, and for 8 October it was the official site’s rate for the Tokyo Suite. In the peak season of the official calendar, 20 December to 3 January, nights ran from 606,400 to 880,440 yen.

On 7 October 2026 Google showed 4.4/5 from 1,988 ratings, 71% five stars; Tripadvisor 4.3/5 from 695, first of 4 hotels in Otemachi, with rooms at 4.8, cleanliness at 4.9 and value at 3.9; Trip.com 4.8/5 from 164, according to Google Hotels.

Guests keep returning to the space, the pool and staff who remember names. Rates are among the highest in the city, Musashi serves dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday, and the Lounge also welcomes non-residents, many of them in for afternoon tea; in 2026 several visitors to the Lounge, the bar or the Café who were not staying describe a cool welcome.

Google Hotels’ figures for Japan already include them: for 8 October the official site’s link showed 536,320 yen in all, 116,320 of it taxes and charges. The sources we read do not split that sum between service, consumption tax and Tokyo’s accommodation tax.

In the restaurants the menu prices are already inclusive: 16% service at Arva and 15% at the Café, plus 10% consumption tax; at the spa 15% and 10%, and 18% service on in-room drinks, according to the official price lists.

Check-in from 3pm and check-out by noon, according to the Google Hotels listing; the official pages we read do not print the times. Early arrival and late departure, when available, are among the perks of the Japan offer, and a guest in December 2025 describes getting her room at 11am.