Westin destinations worldwide

Honolulu's oldest hotel, open since 1901 on Waikiki Beach—its 120-plus years of oceanfront history, grand veranda, pool, and spa making it the most historically rooted luxury property on one of the Pacific's most famous stretches of sand.

John Portman's 1977 complex—five reflective cylindrical glass towers rising from a shared podium, a six-storey glass-roofed atrium of exposed concrete and external glass elevators—takes his signature urban atrium concept to its most extreme iteration, the revolving cocktail lounge on the top floor completing an exercise in vertical urbanism that has influenced hotel design worldwide.

Opened in 1994 within Yebisu Garden Place—the garden-city redevelopment of Sapporo Beer's former brewery in Ebisu—the Westin carries the development's European ambitions in its Parisian spa, jazz bar, and formal dining rooms, its spacious rooms and quieter Ebisu address remaining one of the gentler luxuries at this tier.

The 1993 Nakanoshima business district tower gives upper rooms views across the low-rise river corridor between the Dojima and Tosabori rivers, the hotel's fine dining, indoor pool, and spa delivering the comprehensive Western-chain infrastructure that remains scarcer in Osaka than in Tokyo.