Tokyo · 5 Nights
Five Days in Tokyo
The city at altitude, and at street level.
Duration
5 nights
Best Seasons
Tokyo works year-round. Spring brings cherry blossoms to the Imperial Palace grounds. Autumn brings clarity of light and cooler temperatures. Summer evenings in the city carry their own charged quality.
Themes
Pace
Considered. Two properties, four districts in depth.
Tokyo is not a city that can be grasped quickly, and the attempt to do so is a common mistake. Its neighbourhoods are not interchangeable — Yanaka and Ginza share a city but not a logic. The impulse to cover ground works against understanding.
This sequence moves between two contrasting properties: Aman Tokyo in Otemachi — quiet altitude, Imperial adjacency, the city seen from above — and Bvlgari Hotel Tokyo in Yaesu, which represents a different strand of luxury: Italian precision translated into a Japanese high-rise context.
The days are built around districts rather than attractions — a more useful unit for a city of this complexity. Each district has an internal logic that rewards sustained attention over a few hours rather than a rushed hour.
Day
01
Arrival — Otemachi
Arrive at Narita or Haneda. If Haneda, the drive into the city takes forty minutes; the approach over the bay at night is its own introduction. Check in to Aman Tokyo — the lobby, occupying the entire 33rd floor of the Otemachi Tower, greets you with a volume of space that immediately separates this property from the city below. The Imperial Palace gardens are visible from your room. Dinner at The Restaurant: seasonal Japanese cuisine, quiet service, views that begin to make sense of the city's scale.
Day
02
Imperial East — Marunouchi and Ginza
Morning at the Imperial Palace East Gardens — they open at 9am and are largely uncrowded before 10. Walk through Marunouchi's brick arcades, the 1914 Tokyo Station building a rare fragment of European-influenced Meiji architecture still intact. Lunch at one of the counters in the station's basement level. Afternoon in Ginza: the art galleries that occupy the upper floors of the old department stores, then the six-floor Itoya stationery building. Dinner at Sukiyabashi Jiro Honten, if a reservation was secured in advance — or one of the other counter restaurants in the neighbourhood.
Day
03
Roppongi and the Museum Circuit
Tokyo's density of serious museum institutions is underappreciated. The Mori Art Museum at the top of Roppongi Hills anchors the morning — its permanent collection is strong, the temporary exhibitions consistently ambitious. Adjacent, the National Art Center Roppongi occupies an extraordinary Kisho Kurokawa building. Lunch in the Midtown complex. Afternoon: 21_21 Design Sight in Midtown, designed by Tadao Ando, is a reliable constant. Early evening at the Suntory Museum of Art. Dinner in Azabu-Juban — the neighbourhood Janu Tokyo now anchors is worth exploring on foot.
Day
04
Relocate — Shiodome to Toranomon
Check out of Aman Tokyo mid-morning. Transit south to Bvlgari Hotel Tokyo in Yaesu — the property occupies the 40th through 45th floors of the Tokyo Midtown Yaesu tower, a counterpoint to the Otemachi experience: Italian precision expressed at Japanese altitude. The Il Ristorante lunch is worth taking at the hotel before an afternoon in the surrounding district. Afternoon: the new Yaesu development, then Nihonbashi — the old commercial heart of Edo Tokyo, increasingly restored. Dinner at Il Bar, overlooking the city.
Day
05
Final Morning — Yanaka and Departure
Tokyo's most preserved pre-war neighbourhood sits in the northeast, between Ueno and Nippori. Yanaka's lanes, old temples, independent shops, and independent coffee counter operators represent something the city continuously loses elsewhere. Walk from Nippori station through the cemetery — a vast, quiet park-like space — south into Yanesen. The Yanaka Ginza shotengai, a surviving traditional shopping street, ends near Sendagi. Lunch at one of the small restaurants here. Return to Yaesu for luggage, then either Narita or Haneda by train — the Narita Express departs Tokyo Station directly.
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