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Japan’s Golden Route with an onsen night at Mt Fuji, then a flight to Korea for Seoraksan, Petite France, the DMZ and three nights in Seoul
Two countries in ten days, with the flight between them included. The Japanese half is the Golden Route: Senso-ji, Tokyo Skytree, Nijubashi Bridge and Shinjuku in Tokyo; a night at a hot-spring hotel below Mt Fuji with a traditional dinner and an onsen bath; the 5th Station and the spring pools of Oshino Hakkai; Nagoya Castle; Kinkaku-ji, Gion and the Imperial Palace in Kyoto; the torii tunnels of Fushimi Inari; the deer of Nara Park; and Osaka Castle, Shinsaibashi and Dotonbori. On day six you fly from Osaka to Seoul with a 15 kg checked bag included.
Korea starts outside the capital. Your Korean guide drives you straight to Gangwon-do for the night, and the next morning it is Seoraksan National Park — the cable car up to the Gwongeumseong ridge, Sinheungsa Temple and Sokcho’s fish market — then Petite France, the Little Prince village near Gapyeong, on the way to Seoul. Three days in and around the capital follow: the DMZ (Odusan Unification Observatory, Imjingak Park and the Freedom Bridge), the National Museum of Korea and the Bugak Skyway night view, Gyeongbokgung Palace and the National Folk Museum, the hanok alleys of Ikseon-dong, a Han River cruise and an evening in Myeongdong.
Nine nights with breakfast — the flyer describes 4- to 5-star downtown hotels in Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka, a hot-spring hotel at Mt Fuji, a resort hotel in Gangwon-do and a quality hotel in downtown Seoul — plus seven lunches and three dinners, a complimentary transfer from Narita or Haneda on arrival, the Osaka–Seoul flight, all admission tickets listed, and gratuities for the guides and drivers. Fixed Monday departures from April to December 2026; on the dates marked as high season a surcharge of CAD $230 per person applies.
The operator’s representative meets you at Narita or Haneda Airport and arranges the transfer to your Tokyo hotel (complimentary for arrivals between 8 am and 10 pm; there may be a short wait while the group is assembled). Check-in starts at 3 pm and you will need your passport; if you arrive early, leave your luggage with the hotel and start exploring Tokyo on your own.
After breakfast, Senso-ji Temple, Tokyo’s oldest, and the Nakamise-dori market street leading up to it; a view of Tokyo Skytree; Nijubashi Bridge at the Imperial Palace; and Shinjuku Kabukicho, the neon entertainment district.
In the afternoon the coach leaves the city for the Mt Fuji lakes area, where you stay at a Japanese hot-spring hotel: a traditional dinner, then the onsen bath.
Seasonal additions in Tokyo, weather permitting: cherry blossoms at Chidorigafuchi and Shinjuku Gyoen (March 22 – April 12); autumn colours at Yoyogi Park and Rikugien Garden (October 18 – November 15).
Japanese-modern hotel opened in 2019 near Lake Kawaguchi, an 11-minute walk from Kawaguchiko station, with 120 non-smoking rooms (most of them tatami rooms with futons, half facing Mt Fuji), a buffet restaurant with a Mt Fuji view, and a communal bath with indoor carbonated and silky baths plus an open-air bath facing the mountain.
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Resort hotel in the forest at the foot of Mt Fuji, a five-minute walk from Lake Motosu, with a main building and an east wing of twin, tatami and Japanese–Western rooms from 27 to 54 m², a large bath with men's and women's open-air baths (artificially mineralised Komyo-stone water), and a second-floor buffet restaurant facing Mt Fuji that serves a crab-and-steak dinner buffet and breakfast.
See the hotel › 10 photosDrive up to Mt Fuji’s 5th Station, roughly halfway up the mountain, for the views (when the road is closed by weather the Mt Fuji World Heritage Center museum is visited instead). Then Oshino Hakkai, a village of eight clear spring pools fed by Fuji snowmelt, with old thatched houses and water wheels, and Bussharito Heiwa Park, a peace park with a white stupa and Japanese gardens.
Continue to Nagoya. The evening is free: the Osu shopping district, a covered arcade of small shops and food stalls around Osu Kannon temple, is the place to go. Dinner on your own.
Keihan Hotels' 13-storey business hotel in central Nagoya, opened in April 2020 with 259 non-smoking rooms from 17.5 to 31 m², a buffet-breakfast restaurant run by the Kyoto restaurant Madoi, self check-in kiosks and a coin laundry, four minutes' walk from Marunouchi and Hisaya-odori subway stations and ten minutes by taxi from Nagoya Station.
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Hilton's 28-storey landmark tower in Fushimi, between Nagoya Station and Sakae, opened in 1989 with 460 rooms of 30 m² and up in a Japanese-modern style, three restaurants, a bar and a café, a 15 m indoor heated pool, gym, sauna and tennis court on the 7th floor, an executive lounge and a 1,000-seat ballroom; Fushimi subway station is three minutes' walk.
See the hotel › 10 photosAfter breakfast, Nagoya Castle, the seat of the Owari branch of the Tokugawa clan, with its golden shachihoko on the keep. Then the drive to Kyoto and Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Pavilion, its upper floors covered in gold leaf above the mirror pond.
The afternoon is in Gion, the historic geisha district: Yasaka Shrine, a walk along Hanamachi, the Edo-period geisha quarter, and a quiet stretch of the Kamo River. Dinner on your own.
Seasonal additions in Kyoto, weather permitting: cherry trees at Maruyama Park (March 22 – April 12); autumn colours in Arashiyama around Togetsukyo Bridge (October 18 – November 15).
Japan's first Hilton Garden Inn, opened in November 2022 on Karasuma-dori in central Kyoto: a nine-storey hotel with 250 rooms, the Together & Co. all-day restaurant, a fitness centre and a 24-hour shop, a four-minute walk from Shijo and Gojo subway stations and three minutes from Kyoto Station by subway.
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Keihan Hotels' five-storey hotel five minutes' walk from the Hachijo East exit of Kyoto Station, opened in December 2018 with 234 non-smoking rooms from 14 to 22 m², a large public bath with indoor and open-air tubs, self check-in kiosks, a coin laundry and a buffet-breakfast restaurant run by the Kyoto restaurant Madoi.
See the hotel › 10 photosThe morning starts at the Kyoto Imperial Palace, home of the emperors until 1868, then Fushimi Inari Taisha and its tunnels of vermilion torii gates up the hillside.
On to Nara, Japan’s first permanent capital: Nara Park, where more than a thousand deer roam freely, and the lantern-lined Kasuga Taisha shrine next to it. Then the drive to Osaka for Osaka Castle Park.
The evening is free in Shinsaibashi, the covered shopping arcade, and Dotonbori, the canal-side food street under the Glico sign. Dinner on your own — takoyaki, okonomiyaki and kushikatsu are the local dishes. Your guide briefs you on tomorrow’s airport shuttle and flight.
Sheraton-branded Miyako Hotels tower on the Uemachi Plateau, directly connected to Kintetsu Osaka-Uehommachi station and two stops from Namba, with 574 rooms, French, Sichuan and Japanese restaurants, a 20th-floor Sheraton Club lounge, a free 24-hour gym and a members' health club with an indoor pool, and airport limousine buses from the door.
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Miyako City Osaka Hommachi, opened in June 2020 by Kintetsu's Miyako Hotels & Resorts, is a 308-room hotel in the Semba business district of central Osaka, two minutes' walk from Sakaisuji-Hommachi metro. Every room has a balcony and a bathroom with a separate washing area; a Chinese brasserie serves the buffet breakfast and a free guest lounge is open all day.
See the hotel › 10 photosAfter breakfast the shuttle bus takes you to Kansai International Airport for the included flight to Seoul Incheon (one 15 kg checked bag included). Lunch on your own, around the flight.
On arrival your Korean guide meets you and drives east to Gangwon-do, the mountainous province on the east coast, for the night. A Korean dinner ends the day.
A morning in Seoraksan National Park, Korea’s best-known mountain park: the cable car (included) up to the Gwongeumseong ridge for the view over the granite peaks, and Sinheungsa Temple with its great bronze Buddha at the park entrance. Then Sokcho Tourist and Fishery Market, the harbour town’s covered market of dried fish, squid and fried chicken stalls.
In the afternoon, on the way back towards the capital, Petite France near Gapyeong, a hillside village of French-style houses built around the story of The Little Prince. Continue to Seoul for dinner and check-in.
North of the city to the edge of the Demilitarized Zone: the Odusan Unification Observatory, where the Han and Imjin rivers meet and North Korea is in plain view across the water, then Imjingak Park and the Freedom Bridge, over which prisoners of war returned in 1953. Bring your passport.
Back in Seoul, the National Museum of Korea, the country’s largest, for its collection from prehistory to the Joseon dynasty. After dark, a drive along the Bugak Skyway above the northern hills for the night view over downtown Seoul. Dinner on your own.
Gyeongbokgung Palace, the main palace of the Joseon dynasty, and the National Folk Museum in its grounds. Then the hanok alleys of Ikseon-dong, a block of 1920s courtyard houses now full of cafés and small shops.
In the afternoon a Han River cruise for the view of the city from the water, and the day ends in Myeongdong, Seoul’s busiest shopping street, with its cosmetics shops and street food. Dinner on your own.
After breakfast the tour ends. The transfer to Incheon or Gimpo Airport is at your own expense — a taxi costs about US$70 each way and takes about an hour to Incheon.
11 hand-picked hotels over 13 nights of this itinerary. Open any property for photos, video, a full introduction and what's on site.
43-storey tower in Tokyo Dome City, Bunkyo, with 1,006 rooms on floors 9 to 41, eight restaurants and bars from the lobby lounge to the 43rd-floor sky restaurant, a 7th-floor fitness room and a summer garden pool; two minutes' walk from JR Suidobashi station and five from Korakuen metro.
See the hotel › 10 photosJapanese-modern hotel opened in 2019 near Lake Kawaguchi, an 11-minute walk from Kawaguchiko station, with 120 non-smoking rooms (most of them tatami rooms with futons, half facing Mt Fuji), a buffet restaurant with a Mt Fuji view, and a communal bath with indoor carbonated and silky baths plus an open-air bath facing the mountain.
See the hotel › 10 photosResort hotel in the forest at the foot of Mt Fuji, a five-minute walk from Lake Motosu, with a main building and an east wing of twin, tatami and Japanese–Western rooms from 27 to 54 m², a large bath with men's and women's open-air baths (artificially mineralised Komyo-stone water), and a second-floor buffet restaurant facing Mt Fuji that serves a crab-and-steak dinner buffet and breakfast.
See the hotel › 10 photosKeihan Hotels' 13-storey business hotel in central Nagoya, opened in April 2020 with 259 non-smoking rooms from 17.5 to 31 m², a buffet-breakfast restaurant run by the Kyoto restaurant Madoi, self check-in kiosks and a coin laundry, four minutes' walk from Marunouchi and Hisaya-odori subway stations and ten minutes by taxi from Nagoya Station.
See the hotel › 10 photosHilton's 28-storey landmark tower in Fushimi, between Nagoya Station and Sakae, opened in 1989 with 460 rooms of 30 m² and up in a Japanese-modern style, three restaurants, a bar and a café, a 15 m indoor heated pool, gym, sauna and tennis court on the 7th floor, an executive lounge and a 1,000-seat ballroom; Fushimi subway station is three minutes' walk.
See the hotel › 10 photosJapan's first Hilton Garden Inn, opened in November 2022 on Karasuma-dori in central Kyoto: a nine-storey hotel with 250 rooms, the Together & Co. all-day restaurant, a fitness centre and a 24-hour shop, a four-minute walk from Shijo and Gojo subway stations and three minutes from Kyoto Station by subway.
See the hotel › 9 photosKeihan Hotels' five-storey hotel five minutes' walk from the Hachijo East exit of Kyoto Station, opened in December 2018 with 234 non-smoking rooms from 14 to 22 m², a large public bath with indoor and open-air tubs, self check-in kiosks, a coin laundry and a buffet-breakfast restaurant run by the Kyoto restaurant Madoi.
See the hotel › 10 photosSheraton-branded Miyako Hotels tower on the Uemachi Plateau, directly connected to Kintetsu Osaka-Uehommachi station and two stops from Namba, with 574 rooms, French, Sichuan and Japanese restaurants, a 20th-floor Sheraton Club lounge, a free 24-hour gym and a members' health club with an indoor pool, and airport limousine buses from the door.
See the hotel › 10 photosMiyako City Osaka Hommachi, opened in June 2020 by Kintetsu's Miyako Hotels & Resorts, is a 308-room hotel in the Semba business district of central Osaka, two minutes' walk from Sakaisuji-Hommachi metro. Every room has a balcony and a bathroom with a separate washing area; a Chinese brasserie serves the buffet breakfast and a free guest lounge is open all day.
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Twenty-storey hotel on the shore of Cheongcho Lake in Sokcho, opened in 2018 with 443 rooms from 23 m² standard doubles and twins to 75 m² suites, most facing the lake or the East Sea. Buffet breakfast at Gourmet Palace, a café, a third-floor terrace lounge, a convenience store and coin laundry; Seoraksan National Park is about 18 km away.
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Economy-design Accor hotel in the central tower of the Seoul Dragon City hotel complex beside Yongsan Station, with 591 rooms from 24 m² looking over the city or the Han River, breakfast included, an all-day restaurant, a French deli and a fitness centre; Yongsan Station (KTX, Line 1 and the Gyeongui–Jungang line) is a three-minute walk.
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How the price is built. Per person in Canadian dollars, two travellers sharing a twin or double room, from CAD $4,399 on low-season departures. A service fee of CAD $200 per person is added at checkout. The single supplement is CAD $1,230. The Osaka–Seoul flight with a 15 kg checked bag, all admission tickets in the itinerary and gratuities for the guides and drivers are included. Flights to Tokyo and home from Seoul are not included — ask us for a fare from your city (an open-jaw ticket into Tokyo and out of Seoul is the usual choice).
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Fixed Monday departures. The tour departs on set Mondays from April 6 to December 14, 2026 (there are no departures on August 10 or 17). Departures are guaranteed once your booking is confirmed, for a minimum of two adults per booking; if you are travelling alone, contact us and we will check whether you can join. The order of sightseeing may be changed to suit the group’s flight times.
Arriving, changing countries and leaving. On day 1 a complimentary transfer meets flights into Narita or Haneda between 8 am and 10 pm; there may be a short wait while arrivals are grouped, and hotel check-in starts at 3 pm (luggage can be stored earlier). On day 6 a shuttle bus takes you from the Osaka hotel to Kansai Airport — your Japanese guide briefs you the day before — and the flight to Seoul Incheon is included, with one checked bag of up to 15 kg; anything heavier is charged by the airline. A separate Korean guide meets you on arrival. The tour ends in Seoul on day 10 after breakfast; the transfer to the airport is by taxi at your own expense, about US$70 each way.
Children. A child aged 2 to 12 sharing the existing bedding with the accompanying adults pays the child rate of CAD $4,199 (plus the high-season surcharge where it applies); a child who needs their own bed pays the adult price.
Meals and hotels. Breakfast is included every morning, with lunch on days 2 to 5 and 7 to 9, and dinner at the hot-spring hotel on day 2, a Korean dinner on arrival in Gangwon-do on day 6 and again on day 7. Dinners in Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka and on the last two Seoul evenings are free. The flyer describes the Japanese city hotels as 4- to 5-star properties in downtown Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka, the Mt Fuji night at a hot-spring hotel with an onsen bath, a resort hotel in Gangwon-do and a quality hotel in downtown Seoul; the named hotels or others of the same standard are used. Extra nights are subject to availability.
Seasons, weather and the DMZ. On departures between March 22 and April 12 the tour adds cherry-blossom viewing at Chidorigafuchi and Shinjuku Gyoen in Tokyo and Maruyama Park in Kyoto; between October 18 and November 15 it adds autumn colours at Yoyogi Park and Rikugien in Tokyo and Arashiyama’s Togetsukyo Bridge in Kyoto, weather permitting. If the road to Mt Fuji’s 5th Station is closed, the Mt Fuji World Heritage Center is visited instead. The DMZ sites can close at short notice for security reasons, in which case an alternative is substituted; bring your passport that day. Visas or electronic travel authorisations, if you need them, and travel insurance are your responsibility. Cancellation charges: 50% from 30 to 14 days before departure, 75% from 14 to 7 days, 100% within 7 days.
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Tokyo Dome Hotel is the 43-storey tower beside the Tokyo Dome baseball stadium in Tokyo Dome City, the amusement district on the north side of the Imperial Palace grounds. The 1,006 rooms occupy floors 9 to 41 and face either the Dome and its rides (park side) or the Palace gardens and the skyline (palace side). Standard-floor twin and double rooms are 26–33 m² with a bath and washlet toilet, humidifier air purifier, kettle with tea, a stocked fridge and free Wi-Fi; Premium rooms are on floors 35–38 and Executive rooms and suites on 39–41, with their own lounge on the 40th floor.
Rilassa on the 3rd floor is the buffet restaurant and breakfast venue (Japanese, Western and Chinese dishes, 6:30–9:30); Artist Café on the 43rd floor serves Italian food with a panoramic view; Deux Mil is the French restaurant and Bar 2000 the main bar on the 6th floor; Kumagyoan Tankuma Kitamise serves Kyoto cuisine, teppanyaki and sushi on the 4th floor; Sizzler and the Gyubei yakiniku restaurant are on the 2nd floor and the Garden Terrace lobby lounge on the 1st. A Lawson convenience store is on the 2nd floor.
Fitness room with Life Fitness machines on the 7th floor (6:00–22:00, paid for standard-floor guests), an outdoor 20 m garden pool open in summer, self-service laundry, a nursing room and a hair and beauty salon. Tokyo Dome City's rides, the Spa LaQua hot-spring complex and the Koishikawa Korakuen garden are next door.
JR Suidobashi station (Chuo–Sobu line) is about two minutes' walk from the east exit and the Toei Mita line exit A2 one minute; Korakuen station (Marunouchi and Namboku lines) is five minutes and Kasuga (Oedo line) six. Tokyo station and Ueno are about 15 minutes by taxi, Shinjuku about 30.
Fuji Kawaguchiko Resort Hotel is a four-storey Japanese-modern hotel completed in 2019 in Funatsu, the town centre of Fujikawaguchiko, between Kawaguchiko station and Fuji-Q Highland. The lobby is lit by a chandelier of more than 100 crystals in the shape of Mt Fuji, hung with the Thirty-six Views of the mountain. All 120 rooms are non-smoking: 89 are 24 m² Japanese-style tatami rooms sleeping one to three on futons (51 on the Mt Fuji side, 38 on the car-park side), four are 36 m² Japanese–Western rooms with two 120 cm beds and two futons for up to four, and 26 are 18 m² semi-double rooms on the car-park side. Every room has a bath with washlet toilet, TV, fridge, kettle, safe, air purifier-humidifier and free Wi-Fi; yukata, razors, toothbrushes and other amenities are taken from self-service boxes on each floor.
The ground-floor restaurant looks over a dry-landscape garden towards Mt Fuji and serves buffet breakfast (6:30–9:30) and buffet dinner (17:30–21:00) of more than 30 Japanese, Western and Chinese dishes; there is no lunch service. A hotel shop with local products and travel goods is open 7:00–23:00.
The large communal bath on the ground floor (15:00–23:00 and 6:00–9:00) has two indoor baths — a carbonated bath of more than 1,000 ppm and a milky "silky" micro-bubble bath — and a men's and a women's open-air bath with two pot tubs facing Mt Fuji. The hotel notes the water is carbonated artificially rather than a natural hot spring, and there is no sauna. Guests with tattoos are not admitted.
Kawaguchiko station on the Fujikyu line is about 900 m (11 minutes on foot; a free shuttle runs from platform 10 between 11:30 and 21:00), Fujikyu Highland station about 1 km, and the Kawaguchiko interchange on the Chuo Expressway five minutes by car. Free parking for 62 cars and five coaches, with two EV chargers.
Motosu Phoenix Hotel stands among mossed lava and primeval forest near the shore of Lake Motosu, the westernmost of the Fuji Five Lakes and the one whose "inverted Fuji" appears on the 1,000-yen note. Rooms are in a main building (four types, all 34 m² except the 54 m² special room: twin, twin with a raised tatami corner sleeping three, tatami room for up to three futons, and the special room with two beds and up to two futons) and an east wing (27 m² twin and Japanese–Western rooms). Every room has a separate bathroom, washbasin and washlet toilet, TV, kettle, hairdryer, central air-conditioning, yukata and free Wi-Fi; the whole building is non-smoking apart from smoking rooms on each floor.
Restaurant Fuji on the second floor of the main building looks towards Mt Fuji and serves buffet meals built around seasonal produce and local vegetables and meat: dinner (18:00–21:00, 70-minute seating, last entry 20:15) is an all-you-can-eat crab and steak buffet with sashimi and Japanese dishes; breakfast (7:00–9:00, last entry 8:15) is Japanese and Western. Alcohol is extra and there is no room service.
The Komyo Motosu hot spring on the ground floor of the main building — an artificial hot spring mineralised with Komyo stone from Okayama — has men's and women's indoor baths and open-air baths surrounded by the lakeside forest, open 15:00–0:30 and 5:00–9:00. Free electric bicycles (9:00–18:00; a lap of the lake takes about an hour), a free games corner in the east wing with billiards, table tennis and a Nintendo Switch (18:00–24:00), paid karaoke rooms, a coin laundry and a shop (7:00–22:00).
About 30 minutes by car from the Kawaguchiko interchange on the Chuo Expressway and 40 from the Fuji interchange on the Tomei; by public transport, a Fujikyu bus from Kawaguchiko station to the Motosu Iriguchi stop and five minutes on foot (the hotel also runs a free shuttle to Kawaguchiko station by prior arrangement). Free parking.
Hotel Keihan Nagoya is a 13-storey business hotel on Nishiki-dori in Naka-ku, opened on 3 April 2020 by Keihan Hotels & Resorts. The 259 rooms occupy floors 2 to 13 and are all non-smoking: Double rooms are 17.5 m² with a 140 cm bed, Standard Twin and Hollywood Twin rooms 21 m², and Superior Twin rooms 31 m² with a separate bath and toilet; twin rooms take an extra bed for three. Every room has free Wi-Fi and a ReFa hair dryer and shower head.
The ground-floor restaurant is run by Madoi, a Western-style restaurant founded in Kyoto in 1961. Breakfast is a buffet from 7:00 to 10:00 (¥1,980) with a Nagoya corner — hitsumabushi eel rice, miso pork cutlet, kishimen noodles, sweet-and-spicy chicken wings and ogura toast — plus Kyoto pickles from Nishiri and French toast. Lunch and dinner service in the restaurant has ended; evening meals are take-away only, ordered from the room.
Three self check-in kiosks and a lobby with local guides and magazines; an amenity bar for toiletries; coin laundry with detergent-free washer-dryers on the 2nd floor; vending machines, microwaves and ice machines on the 2nd and 13th floors; a smoking booth; luggage storage before check-in and after check-out; ten parking spaces (¥1,800 per night, first come first served). Check-in from 15:00, check-out 11:00.
Four minutes on foot from Marunouchi station (Sakura-dori and Tsurumai lines) and three to four minutes from Hisaya-odori station (Meijo and Sakura-dori lines); Sakae is about 13 minutes' walk and Nagoya Castle two subway stops away. Nagoya Station is about ten minutes by taxi; Chubu Centrair airport is roughly 35 minutes by Meitetsu train and subway.
Hilton Nagoya is a pearl-white tower of 28 floors above ground and three below on Hirokoji-dori in Fushimi, the business district midway between Nagoya Station and Sakae. Opened in 1989, it has 460 rooms and suites, all 30 m² or larger, with interiors inspired by Nagoya Castle — headboards in the green of the castle roof, carpets patterned on its stone walls — Hilton Serenity beds, multi-standard sockets and USB ports by the bed. Hilton rooms come as king or twin; Deluxe rooms on the upper floors add a Nespresso machine and city views; Executive rooms and suites include the executive lounge, which moved to a new "Weekend House" space on the 2nd floor in November 2025 with breakfast, daytime refreshments and evening cocktails.
In Place 3-3, the all-day dining room in the atrium, serves the breakfast buffet (6:30–10:00, later at weekends) and premium lunch and dinner buffets; Ouchou is the Chinese restaurant; Genji serves Japanese cuisine at teppanyaki, tempura and kaiseki counters. Hideaway 3-3 is the bar and Café 3-3 the artisan sweets and bakery shop; room service is available.
The 7th-floor fitness centre — free for hotel guests — has a gym with about 20 Technogym machines open 24 hours, a 15 m indoor heated pool and jacuzzi, Japanese-style baths and dry saunas, massage treatments and an outdoor Decoturf tennis court with floodlights. The Hilton Plaza shopping arcade is in the basement; the hotel is an official partner of LEGOLAND Japan.
Fushimi station (Higashiyama and Tsurumai subway lines) is three minutes' walk and one stop from both Nagoya Station and Sakae; Nagoya Station is 15 minutes on foot or five by taxi. Chubu Centrair airport is 60–80 minutes by taxi, or about an hour by airport bus to the NE4 stop four minutes from the hotel. Underground parking for 200 cars (¥3,000 per night). Check-in 15:00, check-out 12:00.
Hilton Garden Inn Kyoto Shijo Karasuma opened on 23 November 2022 as the first Hilton Garden Inn in Japan. The nine-storey building stands on Karasuma-dori between Shijo and Gojo, in the Shimogyo ward of central Kyoto. Its 250 rooms come in nine types, from 20–23 m² standard rooms for two to 57 m² premium family rooms for up to six, decorated in pale wood with lattice screens and shoji-style window panels; every room has a flat-screen TV, work desk and free Wi-Fi.
Together & Co. is the all-day restaurant, serving Western and Japanese dishes made with seasonal Kyoto ingredients from breakfast through dinner. The Shop off the lobby sells local snacks, drinks and coffee 24 hours a day.
A fitness centre with cardio machines and free weights, self-service laundry and complimentary Wi-Fi throughout the hotel.
Shijo and Gojo stations on the Karasuma subway line are each a four-minute walk, and Kyoto Station is three minutes away by subway. Nishiki Market and the Shijo shopping streets are within walking distance; Gion and Nijo Castle are a short ride away.
Hotel Keihan Kyoto Hachijoguchi is a five-storey lodging-focused hotel on Hachijo-dori, south of Kyoto Station, opened by Keihan Hotels & Resorts on 1 December 2018. The 234 rooms on floors 2 to 5 are all non-smoking and decorated in a simple Japanese style with a tea set in each room: Single rooms are 14 m² with a 160 cm bed, Double and Twin rooms 17 m², and Moderate Twin rooms 22 m² with two 110 cm beds; Twin and Moderate Twin rooms take an extra bed for triple use. Free Wi-Fi throughout; a wheelchair-accessible room is available.
The ground-floor restaurant is run by Madoi, a Western-style restaurant founded in Kyoto in 1961. Breakfast is a buffet from 7:00 to 10:00 (¥2,530 adults, ¥1,265 primary-school children, preschoolers free) built around a salad bar, "fermentation × vegetables" dishes made with salt koji and sweet koji, Kyoto pickles and French toast cooked to order in front of you.
A large public bath on the ground floor with one indoor tub, one open-air tub and standing rain showers, separate for men and women, entered by PIN-coded electronic lock and open 15:00–25:00 and 6:00–10:00, with free ice cream afterwards (bath towels are taken from the room; guests with tattoos are not admitted). Self check-in kiosks, an amenity bar for toiletries, coin laundry with detergent-free washer-dryers, coin lockers for luggage, vending machines, microwaves, ice machine, water dispenser and a smoking area; eight outdoor parking spaces by telephone reservation (¥2,000 per night). Check-in from 15:00, check-out 11:00.
Five minutes on foot from the Hachijo East exit of JR Kyoto Station (Shinkansen, JR, Kintetsu and the Karasuma subway line). From Kansai airport about 75 minutes on the JR Haruka limited express or 85–90 minutes by limousine bus to the Kyoto Station Hachijoguchi stop; from Osaka Itami airport about 50 minutes by limousine bus.
Sheraton Miyako Hotel Osaka is run by Miyako Hotels & Resorts, the Kintetsu group hotel company whose original Miyako Hotel dates from 1890, and is a Marriott Bonvoy hotel under the Sheraton flag. The tower stands on the Uemachi Plateau in Tennoji ward, on top of Kintetsu Osaka-Uehommachi station. The 574 rooms are arranged by floor — Comfort, Sheraton, Premium and Executive — with twin, double and king rooms from about 31 m², and suites on the executive floors from the 45 m² Junior Suite to the 133 m² Imperial Suite; the 18th and 19th floors were renovated with new suites in 2025–26. Suite guests use the Sheraton Club lounge on the 20th floor, which serves breakfast, afternoon tea and evening cocktails with a view over the city.
Restaurant & Lounge, Bar eu serves French-based course menus and the breakfast buffet (6:30–10:00, 120 seats); Shisen is the Sichuan Chinese restaurant; Uemachi is the Japanese restaurant with kaiseki menus and private rooms; Café Belle is the café and gourmet shop.
A fitness gym on the first basement floor is free for guests 24 hours a day. The Miyako Health Club on the 5th floor is a members' club with a full-size indoor pool, sauna and gym (guests aged 12 and over). There is also a business centre, a hair salon, shops, and 22 banquet halls for up to 1,000 people. Parking for about 500 cars is shared with the adjoining Uehommachi car park.
The hotel is directly connected to Kintetsu Osaka-Uehommachi station, two stops (about three minutes) from Namba and a convenient base for day trips to Nara and Kobe. Limousine buses to Kansai International and Osaka Itami airports leave from in front of the hotel. Check-in 15:00, check-out 12:00.
Hotel Hommachi Miyako — officially Miyako City Osaka Hommachi — is the Miyako City-brand hotel that Kintetsu's Miyako Hotels & Resorts opened on 5 June 2020 in Kitakyuhoji-machi, in the Semba business district between Umeda and Namba. The building is planted with wood and greenery on a botanical theme, with a tree sculpture at the entrance, a second-floor lobby and a teak-root relief behind the reception desk. The 308 rooms run from 21 m² Moderate Doubles to 23 m² Superior Twins, Doubles and Hollywood Twins, 25 m² triples and 27 m² Wide View corner rooms; all have a balcony, a bathroom with a separate washing area beside the tub, an original Simmons mattress, a nanoe air purifier, free Wi-Fi and a Chromecast television. Floors 15 and 16 are the Premium Floor, with ReFa shower heads and hair dryers, bathrobes and a coffee machine.
HALOW, the modern Chinese brasserie with an open kitchen, serves the buffet breakfast (Chinese congee and dim sum alongside Western dishes, 7:00–10:00), lunch sets and à-la-carte dinner; it seats 80 and is closed for dinner on Tuesdays.
The BLOOM guest lounge is free for hotel guests from 7:00 to 22:00, with coffee, tea and soft drinks, a library and a printer; there is a coin laundry on the second floor. No pool or gym.
Sakaisuji-Hommachi station (Sakaisuji and Chuo lines) is a two-minute walk, with Nipponbashi two stops south and Shin-Osaka about 25 minutes away; Hommachi station on the Midosuji line, one stop from Shinsaibashi, is a few minutes further west.
Sea Cruise Hotel Sokcho is a 20-storey tower on Cheongchoho-ro where Cheongcho Lake opens to the East Sea, opened in 2018 with 443 rooms. Standard rooms are 23 m² with a double bed or two singles, either without a view or with a partial sea view; Superior (25 m², double) and Deluxe (25 m², double plus single) rooms face the lake and the sea. Family Suites are 49 m², either with a queen bed and Korean ondol bedding or, in the whirlpool version, two queen beds, a single and a private whirlpool; the Royal Suite is 75 m² with a separate living room. Every room has a 49-inch TV, individual heating and cooling, a refrigerator, tea set and free Wi-Fi. Check-in is at 15:00 and check-out at 11:00; the whole hotel is non-smoking.
Gourmet Palace on the second floor serves the buffet breakfast from 07:00 to 10:00 (last entry 09:30; KRW 25,000 for adults, KRW 22,000 for hotel guests). Café Dawn on the ground floor serves coffee, tea and desserts from 08:00 to 17:00, and the third-floor Terrace Lounge is open until midnight, with drinks and light snacks on Friday and Saturday evenings, holidays and in summer.
An Emart24 convenience store on the ground floor (08:00–24:00), a 24-hour coin laundry in the basement, a nursing room and massage area, and a second-floor banquet room. There is no swimming pool or gym listed.
On the shore of Cheongcho Lake in central Sokcho, a short drive from Sokcho Beach and the Central Market. Seoraksan National Park is about 18 km to the west and Yangyang International Airport about 17 km to the south.
ibis Styles Ambassador Seoul Yongsan is one of the four Accor hotels that make up Seoul Dragon City, the hotel complex operated by the Ambassador Hotel Group next to Yongsan Station. The hotel occupies the central tower and has 591 rooms in four colour themes: Superior rooms with a double bed are 24 m², Superior twins 27 m², Premium doubles 24 m² and Junior Suites 37 m², all with a rainfall shower, flat-screen TV and a view over the city or the Han River. Breakfast is included in the rate.
In Style, the all-day restaurant, serves the breakfast buffet and Korean and Asian dishes and has a children's room; A La Maison Deli is the French bakery-café in the lobby. The Sky Kingdom on the bridge that links the ibis Styles and Grand Mercure towers has further bars and restaurants, including Le Ciel 31 and Cabana City.
Fitness centre, five meeting rooms (the largest 734 m²), car park and free Wi-Fi throughout; the whole hotel is non-smoking.
Yongsan Station — KTX high-speed trains, Line 1 and the Gyeongui–Jungang line — is 300 m away, and Sinyongsan Station on Line 4 about 700 m. Itaewon and the National Museum of Korea are a short taxi ride, Yeouido is across the river, and Incheon Airport is about 55 minutes by taxi or 75 minutes by AREX train and subway.