Aman Tokyo
City hostelry with an an edge



This may be Aman’s first true city hotel, but like the company’s other resorts, it remains all but hidden, its pedestrian entrance screened by an area of woodland dubbed the Otemachi Forest – an urban jungle in the purest sense. Also in keeping with the ethos of its siblings, it retains an air of calm and tranquillity, at least once you’ve ascended to its 33rd-storey reception, a space dominated by the bisected trunk of a huge, centuries-old camphor tree.
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