#5 in Top 20 Tokyo for A Solo Retreat · ★★★★★
The Tokyo EDITION Toranomon
Roppongi pause, glass-walled lobby, the design-led solo trip.
Roppongi pause, glass-walled lobby, the design-led solo trip.
"Marriott-Schrager's 2020 Tokyo debut, the converted Toranomon Hills tower, Kengo Kuma interiors, the property facing Tokyo Tower."
Why this rank, The Tokyo EDITION, Toranomon opened in October 2020 at the Toranomon Hills development - the Marriott-Ian Schrager EDITION brand's Tokyo debut, the second Asian EDITION after Sanya. 206 rooms across floors 31-36 of the Toranomon Hills Business Tower, designed by Kengo Kuma with interior architecture by Schrager. The Toranomon location at the southern edge of central Tokyo places Tokyo Tower directly visible from south-facing rooms, with Shimbashi and Ginza two stops east on the Metro. Restaurant: The Blue Room (international), Sophie (lobby bar), Jade Room (Cantonese on the rooftop with Tokyo Tower view) anchor the dining program. The Garden Terrace on floor 31 operates as the property's outdoor lounge. The Spa Edition across two floors holds the city's only Schrager-design-language wellness setup. The Penthouse Suite occupies the top floor with private outdoor terrace. The brand's design-led contemporary register reads differently from Tokyo's heritage Five-Star hotels and serves the creative-industry traveler. Best for design-led stays, Tokyo Tower view priorities, and creative-industry business.
Best room: Penthouse Suite - top-floor with private outdoor terrace, Tokyo Tower view.
"Roppongi pause, glass-walled lobby, the design-led solo trip."
The Tokyo EDITION Toranomon opened in 2020 in the Toranomon Hills business district, with the lobby on the 31st floor of the tower and the rooms above. The hotel is Ian Schrager's first Tokyo property and the architecture by Kengo Kuma uses traditional Japanese material vocabulary (washi paper, dark wood, indigo cotton) translated into a contemporary high-rise context. Two hundred and six rooms, every one with floor-to-ceiling glass windows and a Kengo-Kuma-designed soaking tub. The Lobby Bar is a working space rather than a tea room; the rooftop Gold Bar (the highest open-air rooftop bar in Tokyo) is the after-day cocktail space. The Jade Room is the in-house Mediterranean restaurant. The Tokyo EDITION Toranomon is the right pick for the solo retreat where the design-language and the Toranomon-Hills geographic position are the working assets, the property is more affordable than Aman or Bulgari, the architecture is genuinely distinctive, and the Roppongi-Hills-and-Mori-Art-Museum cluster (a 15-minute walk) gives the solo retreat its daily anchor.
Tokyo Suite (the corner suite with the largest soaking tub) or Premier Tokyo Suite for the entry-level option.
The rooftop Gold Bar at 6pm is the working after-day cocktail space, the corner lounger with the Tokyo skyline view is the editor's table. The 5am-7am morning hours at the Lobby Bar are the working solo-writing time. Walk to the Mori Art Museum on the second day, fifteen minutes through Toranomon Hills.
The Tokyo EDITION Toranomon sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Tokyo for a Solo Retreat list. It scored an aggregate 9.6/10 across the three editorial criteria, competitive against the field but, on a solo retreat-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Tokyo neighbourhood, see Toranomon, Roppongi and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces, the ones that earn this rank, are typically the first to sell out.
Editorial · #12 on the Top 20 Tokyo Hotels 2026 list
The Tokyo EDITION Toranomon ranks #12 as the first Marriott-Schrager EDITION property to bring contemporary design language to Tokyo. The 2020 opening at the Toranomon Hills business tower paired Kengo Kuma's exterior architecture with Schrager's interior design vocabulary - the combination produced a hotel format unlike anything in Tokyo at the time.
For Tokyo visitors, EDITION Toranomon is the address for design-led visitors, for creative-industry business travel, and for stays calibrated to the Tokyo Tower view (the property's south-facing rooms face Tokyo Tower directly, with the Shibakoen park and Zojoji temple in the foreground). The Jade Room rooftop bar with Tokyo Tower view is the property's most-photographed setting. The Penthouse Suite has a private outdoor terrace.