HOSHINOYA Tokyo makes the World's 50 Best Hotels extended list, at No. 85
HOSHINOYA Tokyo, Hoshino Resorts' ryokan-style tower in Otemachi, has been named to the World's 50 Best Hotels' extended 51-100 list for 2026 -- international recognition for a property that sells itself on traditional Japanese hospitality rather than the Western five-star vocabulary most of the ranking runs on.
Hoshino Resorts said HOSHINOYA Tokyo has been named No. 85 on the World's 50 Best Hotels 2026 Extended List, the 51-100 tier the awards body publishes alongside its headline top-50 ranking, according to a statement on the company's newsroom. The extended list is compiled by the same Best Hotels Academy -- more than 800 independent hospitality experts -- that votes on the main ranking.
HOSHINOYA Tokyo is a 17-storey "tower of ryokan" in Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, a 10-minute walk from Tokyo Station, with 84 rooms -- six to a floor -- laid out with tatami flooring, shoji screens and a rooftop onsen, according to Hoshino Resorts. Rooms start at 182,000 yen a night, tax and service included but meals excluded.
The hotel's general manager, Masanori Ikegami, said the recognition validates HOSHINOYA Tokyo's ongoing effort to convey the value of a traditional Japanese ryokan to an international audience, according to the statement. Faye Huggett of the World's 50 Best organisation said the extended list highlights fifty further hotels that represent some of the best hospitality in the world; the top-50 winners will be named at a ceremony in Paris on September 15.
The distinction matters less for its rank than for its audience. HOSHINOYA Tokyo sits in the second tier of a list still dominated by Western five-star hotels and resorts, well below the marquee top 50 announced later this month. But the property is built around omotenashi (hospitality rooted in anticipating a guest's needs) presented through a decidedly Japanese design language, aimed as much at showcasing that tradition to overseas visitors as at serving domestic ones -- and an English-language global ranking reaches the high-spending international guest the hotel courts in a way a domestic accolade cannot.