Miyajima
This charming good-value inn is built in traditional style with wooden interiors. There are both tatami rooms with futons and rooms with beds, all…
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Okinawa & the Southwest Islands
Since the building that houses it is also a marine-biology research facility, this minshuku may look a little industrial from the outside. But the rooms…
Kii Peninsula
This old minshuku was recently converted into a hostel by the reliable J-Hoppers team. There are spacious, cabin-style bunks and private Japanese-style…
Kōrakuen & Akihabara
Sitting right on top of well-connected Iidabashi Station, this clean, well-managed hostel has fantastic transport access. It also has luxury-hotel-worthy…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
The 10 rooms here, with walls the colour of the ocean at night and slate, glass-enclosed bathrooms (the work of Suppose Design Office), are beautiful, but…
Kansai
This three-room hostel, in a vacant old house thoughtfully renovated by its young, English-speaking owners, is ideally set up for self-catering, with a…
Tokyo
Following what is now a common hostel format in Tokyo (conversions of old office buildings with a cafe-bar on the ground floor), Grids adds to the mix by…
Ōsumi Islands
This secluded accommodation features Japanese- and Western-style rooms in rustic riverside cabins connected by wooden walkways. Soak up the beauty of your…
Hokkaidō
Six minutes' walk west of JR Naka-Furano Station (not JR Furano Station) at the top of the hill, this hostel occupies a big farmhouse overlooking the…
Roppongi, Akasaka & Around
The long-established Otani new 'Shin-Edo'-style rooms, though only 26 sq metres, pack in plenty of style and amenities, including cypress-wood bathtubs…
Tokyo
Representing a return to the classics, the Tokyo Station Hotel has brushed up handsomely as part of the heritage building's restoration. Rooms are…
Kōrakuen & Akihabara
This capsule-hotel brand makes a statement with its cool contemporary architecture and clean design. This eight-floor branch features a kind of atrium on…
Nikkō
The closest hostel to Tōshō-gū offers a riverside location and a relaxed, friendly vibe. As it's run single-handedly by the English-speaking Hiro, guests…
Kii Peninsula
Fukuchi-in has two standout features: a communal onsen bath, including a rotemburo (outdoor bath), and a garden designed by famous modernist landscape…
Nikkō
In the midst of mountains and rivers in the scenic Okukino region of 'secret onsen' is this rustic ryokan, a serene escape with milky sulphuric waters in…
Osaka
This great budget option in the heart of Amerika-Mura has a variety of rooms. Besides four-bed and six-bed dorms, there are private Japanese- and Western…
Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo
This old standby lacks the designer charm of Tokyo's newer hostels but makes up for it with its multilingual, four-star-hotel-level front-desk service…
Roppongi, Akasaka & Around
Henn na Hotel's USP is that it uses (in this branch's case) humanoid-looking robots at the reception for check-in (don't panic, there are real humans just…
Nikkō
This grand hotel from 1893 has hosted such notables as Albert Einstein, Helen Keller and King George V in its charming if slightly worn environs. The…
Western Honshū
Tottori's only hostel has smart male- and female-only capsules with thick mattresses, flat-screen TVs, safes and, instead of bunks, cavernous personal…
Southern Higashiyama
In a hidden location a short walk from Gion, Yumiya Komachi is a delightful guesthouse run by friendly owner, Rico. The 100-year-old building is the…
Kii Peninsula
This beautifully renovated guesthouse, with exposed beams and traditional plaster walls, has two Japanese-style bedrooms and sleeps up to six; there's…
Kyūshū
The exquisite 2nd- and 9th-floor rotemburo of this upmarket beachfront ryokan have expansive views and a lovely relaxation garden. There's a broad range…
Ōsumi Islands
This well-run youth hostel is about 3km west of Onoaida, nestled into the forest. Accommodation is in either Japanese- or Western-style dorms, and the…
Kii Peninsula
The fourth-generation Kosaka family of innkeepers opened this modern and polished building in 2015. The current-generation Kosaka-san doesn't speak much…
Sapporo
This is one of Sapporo's new hipster hostels – think raw wood and concrete – inside an old unagi (eel) shop a minute's walk from the subway. The rooms,…
Downtown Kyoto
While you don't have to be a Millennial to stay here, it might help when it comes to the iPod-controlled 'rooms' at this modern take on a capsule hotel…
Hakone
Threadbare but exceedingly homely, this family-run guesthouse offers good-value tatami rooms, indoor and outdoor onsen with divine volcanic waters, and a…
Kansai
In northern Miyama and surrounded by farmland, this four-room family-run inn started as a pharmacy on the old road connecting Kyoto with the sea; it also…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Hotel Mets is part of Shibuya Station’s quiet south side, with direct access to the JR lines; the location can be confusing at first, but once you get the…
Osaka
Imagine spending the night in a first-class suite of an Airbus A380 – inside an office building. Cabins, closed off by sliding screens, contain private TV…
Nagano Region
This stunning, though somewhat unwelcoming, eco-resort in the onsen village of Hoshino, 1km north of Naka-Karuizawa Station, is anything but basic. Modern…
Osaka
The Hilton has spacious rooms with king-sized beds and lovely touches such as shoji (sliding rice-paper) window screens. Staff speak English and are at…
Sapporo International Youth Hostel
Sapporo
This oddly upmarket youth hostel – which looks like a modern apartment building – is great value, though it's a little out of the way. Both Western- and…
Kansai
A foreign-travellers' favourite, this 10-room ryokan in a nearly 100-year-old wooden building has heaps of traditional atmosphere and friendly, English…
Capsule Hotel Asahi Plaza Shinsaibashi
Osaka
This is a classic capsule hotel, with over 400 pods on separate floors for men and women as well as communal baths, conveniently located in Ame-Mura. They…
Kagoshima
Clean and compact, this five-storey hostel is very convenient to the ferry docks, which is useful if you're planning a trip to Sakurajima. Separate-gender…
Kansai
This fairly new inn, with both Japanese- and Western-style rooms, is well set up for solo travellers and those who don't want to be locked into a meal…
Kyūshū
Cheap it isn't, but how often can you stay in a samurai house? This large (100 sq metre) former castle guard house has been renovated in Japanese…
Roppongi, Akasaka & Around
Prince Hotel's luxury flagship property occupies floors 30 to 36 of the main tower at the Tokyo Garden Terracw Kioichō mixed-use development. Designers…
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