Park Hyatt Tokyo

Japan
Asia

The Experience

There's no grand lobby entrance at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, otherwise known as the Lost in Translation hotel. Instead, guests are initially confronted with a thoroughly hip pastry boutique. From there a brisk elevator ride whisks you to the 41st floor, where you walk past two restaurants and through a library before reaching the sit-down reception tables. It's a deliberately left-field entrance that sets the tone for a hotel that goes out of its way to be unique. The subtly lit, mint green and lacquered black decor accompanies you throughout the room floors (located between the 42nd and 51st floors), all of which yield vistas across Tokyo's extensive skyline. Specially commissioned artworks and furnishings throughout the hallways are extra diversions.

The Rooms

Hong Kong interior designer John Morford's feng shui room designs emphasize circular access, with a capsule-like bathroom that can also be opened to form part of the main bedroom. Layered ceilings, expansive windows and plentiful mirrors augment the tangible sense of space--and stunning views. The 600-square-foot standard (Park Deluxe) room looks and feels extremely spacious, with a marble and granite bathroom, a selection of books and a plasma-screen television. Occupying a corner space, the Park View room offers contrasting city vistas from wall-length windows--it's certainly worth the extra money.

The Service

All staff are courteous and attentive, especially the unflappable bell captains, who deal with an unceasing turnover of guests and visitors. The Park Hyatt certainly walks the "every guest is a VIP" talk.

The Highlights

The 52nd-floor New York Bar & Grill will forever be associated with Bill Murray's scotch-fueled musings. Less known is the romantically designed Peak Bar, a bamboo garden that's softly lit by more than 50 washi paper lanterns overlooking glittering Tokyo below. Another must-see Translation site is the 65-foot atrium swimming pool, which shares a naturally lit 47th-floor space with the gym--a shoe-in for the "best cityscape view from a running machine" award.

 

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