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The classic Tokyo–Kyoto–Osaka route plus an onsen night at Mt Fuji, Himeji Castle and a Shinkansen day to Hiroshima and Miyajima
An eight-day escorted tour along Japan’s Golden Route and then beyond it. It begins in Tokyo — Senso-ji and the Nakamise market, Tokyo Skytree, Nijubashi Bridge at the Imperial Palace and Shinjuku’s Kabukicho — and spends the second night at a hot-spring hotel in the Mt Fuji lakes area, with a traditional dinner and an onsen bath. From there the coach climbs to Fuji’s 5th Station and visits the spring pools of Oshino Hakkai before continuing through Nagoya to Kyoto, Nara and Osaka: Nagoya Castle, Kinkaku-ji, Gion and Yasaka Shrine, the Kyoto Imperial Palace, the torii tunnels of Fushimi Inari, the deer of Nara Park and Kasuga Taisha, Osaka Castle Park and Dotonbori.
Where most eight-day Japan tours stop, this one adds two more days. Day six is Kobe — Harborland and the Nankinmachi Chinatown — and Himeji Castle, the White Heron Castle and a UNESCO World Heritage site, before a Shinkansen ride with your guide to Hiroshima for the night. Day seven is the Peace Memorial Park and Museum, the Atomic Bomb Dome, and the boat to Miyajima for Itsukushima Shrine and its floating torii, then the bullet train back to Osaka.
Seven nights in the operator’s selected hotels with breakfast, four lunches and one dinner, a complimentary transfer from Narita or Haneda on arrival, admission tickets to everything listed, and gratuities for the guide and driver. Fixed Monday departures from April to December 2026; on the dates marked as high season a surcharge of CAD $300 per person applies. Between March 22 and April 12 the itinerary adds cherry-blossom viewing in Tokyo and Kyoto, and between October 18 and November 15 autumn-colour viewing, weather permitting.
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.
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 and check-out, a short drive to Kobe: Harborland, the waterfront district by Kobe Port Tower, and Nankinmachi, Kobe’s Chinatown, with its street-food stalls.
In the afternoon, Himeji Castle, the White Heron Castle — Japan’s finest surviving feudal castle and a UNESCO World Heritage site, with its white-plastered keep and maze of walls and gates. At dusk you board the Shinkansen with your guide for the ride to Hiroshima.
Lunch and dinner are on your own today.
The morning is given to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Museum and the Atomic Bomb Dome, the skeleton of the exhibition hall left standing after August 6, 1945, and now a World Heritage site and a memorial to peace.
Then the boat to Miyajima Island, counted among Japan’s three most scenic views, for Itsukushima Shrine: a Heian-period shrine built out over the water, with its great vermilion torii standing in the sea at high tide. Deer wander the island’s streets, and the local oysters and momiji manju cakes are worth trying.
In the late afternoon the Shinkansen takes you back to Osaka. Lunch and dinner on your own.
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.
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.
See the hotel › 10 photosAfter a final breakfast the tour ends. Your guide will give you directions for the journey to Kansai International Airport (KIX) by public transport, which is at your own expense — the Nankai or JR trains from central Osaka take about 50 minutes, the airport limousine bus about an hour.
10 hand-picked hotels over 12 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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Hiroshima's tallest hotel: a 35-storey, 150 m tower opened in 1994 in the Motomachi Cred complex in the city centre, with 491 rooms and suites, eight restaurants and bars including two on the 33rd floor, an indoor pool and health club on the 8th floor, and 31 function rooms. Peace Memorial Park is a ten-minute walk.
See the hotel › 10 photosWhere a day says “or similar”, a comparable property of the same standard may be used on some departures. Room photos are representative; the room category is set by your booked package.
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How the price is built. Per person in Canadian dollars, two travellers sharing a twin or double room, from CAD $3,599 on low-season departures. A service fee of CAD $160 per person is added at checkout. The single supplement is CAD $1,150. Gratuities for the guide and driver are included, as are all the admission tickets and the Shinkansen fares in the itinerary. Flights to Tokyo and home from Osaka are not included — ask us for a fare from your city.
High-season surcharge. The operator prices this tour in two seasons. On the departures marked as high season in the date list (most departures from mid-May to mid-October, plus late November and December) a surcharge of CAD $300 per person applies to every traveller, so an adult pays CAD $3,899 and a child without a bed CAD $3,599 on those dates. The surcharge is shown separately when you pick your date, so the price you see at checkout is the full price for that departure.
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 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). The tour ends in Osaka on day 8 after breakfast: the transfer to Kansai International Airport is by public transport at your own expense, and your guide will give you directions. Allow at least 90 minutes for the journey.
Children. A child aged 2 to 12 sharing the existing bedding with the accompanying adults pays the child rate of CAD $3,299 (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 a traditional dinner at the hot-spring hotel on day 2. Lunches and dinners on days 6 to 8 are free so you can eat in Kobe, Hiroshima and Osaka on your own. Hotels are those named in the itinerary or others of the same standard; the Mt Fuji night is at a Japanese hot-spring hotel with an onsen bath. Extra nights before or after the tour are subject to availability.
Seasons and weather. 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. Both depend on the weather. If the road to Mt Fuji’s 5th Station is closed, the Mt Fuji World Heritage Center is visited instead. A visa, if you need one, 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.
Rihga Royal Hotel Hiroshima opened on 25 April 1994 for the Hiroshima Asian Games and is the city's tallest hotel, a 35-storey tower of 150 m above the Motomachi Cred shopping complex, next to the Hiroshima Bus Centre and opposite the Hiroshima Museum of Art. The hotel traces its history to the Shin-Hiroshima Hotel of 1955, has hosted the Imperial Family and, in May 2023, the leaders attending the G7 Hiroshima Summit. The 491 rooms and suites, including eight suites and 404 non-smoking rooms, have Serta pocket-coil mattresses and free Wi-Fi; the Superior floors (26–29) look onto Hiroshima Castle or the Seto Inland Sea, with connecting rooms on the 28th floor for families, and the Executive floors add in-room check-in, free use of the pool and spa, a drink voucher and a Western breakfast in the 33rd-floor restaurant.
Eight restaurants and bars: Dining LUORE on the ground floor serves the Japanese and Western buffet breakfast of more than 50 dishes (6:30–10:00); Japanese Restaurant RIJOH, Teppan-yaki NANIWA, Sushi Shunsai SHUSEN and Chinese Dining RYU are on the 6th floor; Restaurant CHAMBORD (French) and the Sky Dining RIHGA TOP bar are on the 33rd floor. Room service is available.
The RIHGA Health Club on the 8th floor has the largest hotel indoor pool in Hiroshima, a jacuzzi, spa baths, a far-infrared sauna and a gym (paid, by reservation, with a two-hour limit; free for Executive-floor guests). There is a 24-hour coin laundry on the 13th floor, a laundry service, a currency-exchange machine, a souvenir shop with duty-free service open 6:00–24:00, and information-desk staff covering English, Chinese, Korean, French, Spanish, Arabic and Filipino.
The hotel is connected underground to Kencho-mae station on the Astram Line and is a three-minute walk from the Kamiya-cho-nishi and Kamiya-cho-higashi tram stops; trams from Hiroshima Station take about ten minutes. The Atomic Bomb Dome and Peace Memorial Park are about ten minutes on foot, Hiroshima Castle is just to the north, and the airport limousine bus reaches the adjoining Hiroshima Bus Centre in about 55 minutes.