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Kohn Pedersen Fox and Nikken Sekkei's 2016 Kioicho tower houses Rockwell Group's interiors of bespoke lighting installations and rich timber joinery, the hotel's gallery programme and upper-floor views over the Akasaka Palace grounds offering Tokyo's most unusual high-rise perspectives.

A Japanese-inspired Marble Arch hotel of sleek contemporary rooms, a whisky and sake bar, and a fine-dining Japanese restaurant that give it a distinctive identity in a neighbourhood more commonly associated with generic international chain properties.

At the base of Mount Asama within the Prince Hotels' extensive Karuizawa resort estate, the hotel's indoor and outdoor hot spring pools draw on the volcano's thermal waters, the French restaurant and ski facilities making it the most accessible five-star option within the complex.

The 33-storey Shiba Park tower commands a direct view of Tokyo Tower and houses seven restaurants, an indoor pool, and a sleek bar, its Minato City address making it one of the few Tokyo luxury hotels with a genuine park as its immediate neighbour.

Built for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics on the Shiba Park site, the Tokyo Prince's direct sightline to Tokyo Tower has become one of the city's most photographed hotel views, the outdoor pool terrace and tower-lit rooms giving it a retro-metropolitan atmosphere that the newer Minato luxury hotels struggle to replicate.