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The Peninsula Tokyo

Name: The Peninsula Tokyo
Telephone: 81-3-6270-2888

A shining landmark across from the Imperial Palace

VERIFIED LUXURY

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Architect Kazukiyo Sato envisioned the freestanding Peninsula Tokyo — a rarity among hotels in the city — as a 24-story traditional Japanese lantern at the entrée to the Marunouchi and Ginza neighborhoods. And thanks to lighting designer Tino Kwan, at night the Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star hotel's soft glow makes it look like one.

Inside, you’ll find even more Japanese touches, including a restaurant serving kaiseki cuisine, locally made art and an excellent spa that provides several Asian-influenced treatments.

Standing across from the Imperial Palace and Hibiya Park, the hotel is in the financial district of Marunouchi. It’s easy to get around from the Peninsula — it has a direct entrance to the Hibiya subway. Ginza, the city’s haute shopping spot, is only a three-minute walk away. Though you can always catch a ride in one of the hotel’s stylish house cars, like the customized Rolls-Royce Extended Wheel Phantoms or a Tesla Model S.

Our Inspector's Highlights

The in-room tech perks are one of the best amenities at the luxury hotel. You’ll find automatic nail dryers, control panels that tell you everything from the outside humidity to the direction the wind is blowing, personal fax machines and numbers, and wired phones that you can sync to your cell to transfer incoming calls via Bluetooth to any handset in the room.
The chic, contemporary Japanese rooms and suites are enormous — they are among the largest in the city.
Make time to unwind in The Peninsula Spa Tokyo. Indulge the ultra-modern spa’s treatments, like the Keihatsu Enlightenment Massage, which uses shiatsu techniques. Afterward, take a dip in the indoor, 65-foot-long pool or the adjacent vitality pool with a balcony that looks out over the Imperial Palace Gardens.
Art plays a key role in the Tokyo hotel’s interior design, with more than 1,000 works from 60 mostly Japanese artists on display. You’ll even see art in unexpected places, like an enclosed atrium near the elevator bank. Peek into a window to see The Void, 24 stainless-steel cones that glow an electric red in the pitch-black space.
Expect excellent, anticipatory service here, from the waiter who remembers just how you like your eggs in the morning to the unobtrusive deliveries via your room’s valet cabinet.

Things to Know

The luxury hotel’s access to the Hibiya metro stop is somewhat hidden, so inquire at the front desk for directions.
Pets get pampered with a specially designed menu and walks with the Peninsula pages. Bonus: your dog can borrow a matching page outfit for his stroll.

The Rooms

A contemporary Japanese aesthetic dominates the rooms with cherry wood slatted headboards that stretch to the ceiling (and similarly styled entertainment centers), red desks and black lacquer bedside tables, gorgeous sliding horse chestnut doors and ceilings concealed in ajiro, hand-woven cedar panels.
Look out the windows for great views of the Imperial Palace gardens and Hibiya Park.
The spacious accommodations also come with separate dressing rooms. Look inside the dresser for a kimono-style robe and obi.
The centerpiece in the bathroom is the deep-soaking tub with a dramatic backsplash with alternating stripes of tan granite and rough stone. From the tub, press the “spa” button to instantaneously dim the lights, play calming music and turn on the “privacy” setting for the phone and doorbell while you watch the steam-free, flat-screen TV.
There are hands-free phones near the tub, vanity and electronic toilet that mute the TV or radio for the duration of the call and digitally filter out the sound of the bathroom echo and running water.

The Restaurants

Nosh on Kobe beef at rooftop grill Peter, which sets a dark, sexy tone with chrome polished trees, rich wood, curved black banquettes and floor-to-ceiling windows with 180-degree views of Tokyo and the Imperial Palace Gardens.
Enjoy dim sum and other Cantonese fare at Hei Fung Terrace, which looks like a Suzhou garden with stone paths and bird cages dangling over tables.
For something lighter, take tea in the lobby, where you can sip a cup of rosehip and hibiscus while listening to musicians perform live from the second-floor balconies.
Head down to the basement level to The Peninsula Boutique & Café to watch the pastry chefs craft sweets from a kitchen window. But don’t leave without having the mango pudding — it’s so popular, the bakery sells 300 a day.

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