One of the few ryokan in Tokyo catering almost exclusively to foreign visitors, Sawanoya has a small library of English-language guidebooks and provides its own map of the old-fashioned Yanaka ...

Daikanyama T-Site in Tokyo is a giant bookstore complex. I can get lost/inspired for hours. There is a beautiful bar on the ...

Then there are the iconoclasts—urban ryokans and reimagined heritage addresses—that seamlessly fuse age-old ritual with space-age convenience, echoing Tokyo’s refusal to be constrained by ...

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About two hours by train from Tokyo is the highly regarded hot spring resort town Hakone. A number of ryokan are spread throughout the region, but Gora Kadan is arguably the most famous.

The business district of Otemachi might not be the first location that would come to mind for a ryokan (traditional Japanese inn), but you won’t find a tranquil retreat like Hoshinoya Tokyo anywhere ...