There are so many luxury hotels dotted Tokyo’s myriad skyscrapers that it is almost impossible to believe there was no Fairmont among them and not even one in all of Japan – until the Fairmount Tokyo opened in July 2025.
Located on floors 35 to 43 of the stunning Blue Front Shibaura Tower South, the hotel offers some of Japan’s most panoramic views over its capital, as well as spectacular amenities such as. tranquil indoor pool overlooking city; a “listening bar” and spacious suites with decor that mixes traditional Japanese design principles in bright contemporary colors.
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Here’s everything you need to know about the Fairmont Tokyo and what a stay there is like.
Fairmont Tokyo vibe
The Fairmont Tokyo, like many of the best hotels in Tokyo literally and metaphorically – occupies several higher floors of an office tower in what is mostly a business district. If you’re not too much of a fan of the neighborhood when walking around, but once you step inside and are whisked up to the 35th-floor lobby by sexy plaid-clad doorperson, you will be “cossed away from the city’s busy pace.”
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A cross between a living room and an art gallery is the 35th-floor lobby lounge called Vue Mer (meaning “view of the sea”), which has been designed to be made by many people sitting in large seatings with profuse floral arrangements, soaring ceilings and carefully selected pieces of artwork. Such examples include a monumental washi paper-inspired hanging mobile by Berlin-based artist Tomislav Topic, dynamical circular statue of Japanese artists Mari–Ruth Odan and dramatically cascading orb chandeliers.
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A landscaped outdoor terrace for fresh air is even a ‘s outside. Kiln & Tonic is the restaurant one corner of the same floor next to (Another) with its adjacent location, Kilin. When you’re at the same time, local ladies might stop in for an unhurried afternoon tea (though it is night and couples of business folk gathered around the sultry backlit cocktail bar).
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Visitors to Fairmont Gold can go straight there for check-in, with a glass of Laurent-Perrier Champagne or their beverage of choice, and are allowed to enter the 42nd-floor club lounge. A nice toast to the start of your stay?
Fairmont Tokyo location
The city’s waterfront Shibaura district, formerly known as the fishing village (long ago) was once part of the Fairmont Tokyo area and has since been subsumed by the city.
Nearly 20 minutes drive from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport (HND), it is a convenient service-based taxi or ride-hailing service, and rides cost around $25 to $40 depending on the service you choose and the time of day. It would also be a convenient way to take the Tokyo Monorail from the airport to Hamamatsucho Station, which takes about 30 minutes and walk around 10 minutes from there.
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It is a bit more demanding to get to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport (NRT) but you can catch – or ride-hailing service there, which costs between $170 and $200 — or hop on the Tokyo Metro to one of the stations served by the Skyliner train that will take about 90 minutes total for getting to the airport.
It is located near several metro lines such as the Yurikamome, Yamanote, Keihin-Tohoku and Asakusa lines; public transport is relatively easy to get around.
Standout features
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- Phenomenal views of the city and bay, no matter where you look
- Gorgeous guest rooms with up-to-the-minute technology
- Several high-end restaurants and bars to choose from, including a speakeasy with rotating DJs
Drawbacks
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- Property’s location might not feel central for many travelers
- High room rates, even for Tokyo’s luxury market
- Currently doesn’t participate in a premium booking portal like American Express Fine Hotels + Resorts
Fairmont Tokyo rooms and suites
There are 217 rooms 188 rooms and 29 suites – for the hotel’s floor size 36 to 42, with floors 41 and 42 reserved for guests staying in the 74 Gold-level accommodations.
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The hotel’s 947-square-foot signature Fairmont Gold suites were one of the home for my two-night stay, at the southwest corner of this building where I stayed. I could see Shibaura’s canals, the waters of Tokyo Bay, a graceful length of the Rainbow Bridge and Haneda Airport in the distance from its living room (AvGeeks will love being on the flight path)
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I’m looking at my panorama from the bedroom, which included the unrecognizable red-and-white spire of Tokyo Tower (the skyscrapers galore) and one clear day the snow-covered peak of Mount Fuji far in the distance.
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Suites were based on heritage Japanese aesthetics to attract the outdoors inside. For example, a windowed corridor was similar to the exterior walkways of traditional Japanese homes (called “engawa”) when connecting the two living spaces with the bathroom suite between them. I particularly liked the carpet patterning of a Zen garden’s swept sands and the elegant, pale.
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The living room was a warm place to relax, with silver in shades, blue and burgundy as well as shelves of small pieces of art and books. Among other details were a minibar with an orange leather-vested Nespresso machine, nambu ironware tea set and blitz cocktail-making set of burnished brass.
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Meanwhile, the bedroom was a room with slickly made king-size bed looking out at the windows (which had day shears and blackout shades you could use with the touch of’button), an ochre velvet daybed and. small table and ottoman).
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Among the two, the bathroom was tiled in glossy gray marble and granite with dual sinks and a glassed-in bathing suite with an ofuro-inspired square tub and another shower with powerful overhead and hand-held showerheads. Several Le Labo Santal 33 products were also available. a quick shampoo and condition before blowing my hair out with the provided Dyson dryer.
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Fairmont Tokyo restaurants and bars
Vue Mer is the hotel’s all-day cafe and cocktail lounge, located next to the lobby. That’s also the place for afternoon tea, with an assortment of home made pastries and seasonal house-made cakes. During my stay the various cakes were inspired by the city’s famous soon-to–blossom sakuran (cherry) trees.
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Kiln & Tonic is also open for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day after this. If you don’t get breakfast with your stay, it is $53 per person for breakfast and includes a selection of juices, pastries and fruit brought to your table, as well as the dishes that you have chosen (for example, farm-fresh eggs made to order), blitzy egg bento box with miso-glazed catch of the day (it was sea bream when I dine there) along with various accompaniments and avocado toast on focaccia with scrambled Kurofuji Farm eggs.
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The dinner is centered on fire-grilled dishes with fresh Japanese ingredients but nods to California and the Mediterranean, and you can order a la carte or from different set menus. Del Mar I chose delicacies such as mellow mackerel escabeche, earthy chicken liver (terrine) on the brioche bite of meat, marinated sweet shrimp over avocado with white asparagus and light sea bream in aqua pazzo broth with fennel tomatoes tomato olive oil and grape seed seedseed.
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The six-seat sushi omakase counter, Migiwa (where you can try Junmai Daiginjo sake only for the hotel by Tokyo Port Brewery), and Totsuji is anupscale teppanyaki restaurant with just six patrons at once (though there’s a small private dining room you could also book)
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Located on the 43rd floor (Driftwood Bar and Grill), where it offers an innovative interpretation of Yoshoku cuisine, DriftWOOD Bar& Grill mixes European dishes with Japanese ingredients and techniques.
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The a la carte menu is full of wood-grilled proteins such as succulent cuts of steak. Five- ($100) and seven -course ($125) menus are also great examples of signature dishes such as sakura wood-smoked fish carpaccio with bottarga, finger lime and sudachi ponzu; creamy crab croquettes; and juicy Australian lamb chops with tangy shiso-mint chimichurri and Okinawan sweet potatoes.
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A very creative cocktail menu by famous mixologist Hideyuki Saito is based on the world’s traditions and cultures (the Guatemala-inspired earthy rum Manhattan ($21) with cacao, basil distillate, salt chocolate and Port wine I sipped into.
The drinks lab is based on Tokyo’s standing-bar tachinomiya culture, and Yoi to Yois (the self-described drinks laboratory) which sits in a corner of the restaurant.
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For a chance to get into the hotel’s musically inclined speakeasy, Off the Record (although you have no choice but which shelf to wave your hand under).
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This cozy space is adorned with rare vinyl albums, antique instruments and other paraphernalia; it has only a few seats and barstools. A secret cocktail list even exists, as it runs an ultraviolet pen light over the menu pages to reveal its own cocktail lists. I tried Smoky Hanky Panky ($22) with The Glenlivet 12-year whisky, dark rum and an Amaro and sweet vermouth that I had made for a strong cap to my night.
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Fairmont Tokyo amenities and service
The Fairmont Tokyo’s wellness center is located down the corridor from its reception desks on the 35th floor.
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A pared-down, apothecary-style space with various herbs (yuzu, ginger, matcha and other herbs), salts, powders and oils are on display as guests enter a parody-like room of the . You can choose your own mix to make a body or foot scrub with some spa treatments. Skin care There are also special-made skin care products for the hotel and a line of Kerstin Florian potions. A full body massage with the hotel’s signature sakuran-scented oil, which I chose from a variety of options, was part of the 60-minute custom body treatment ($219) that included undergoing rebirth consultation and completing an entire package.
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There are traditional onsen-style shower stations, heated pools and cold plunge rooms with granite-boulder walls reminiscent of Edo Castle’s stonework; saunas in the men’S and women’d locker rooms.
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Upon their arrival, they enter the indoor pool (surrounded by loungers) with panoramic views from the ceiling-height windows. The outdoor terrace is a beautiful place to look down at the slopes of Mount Fuji in fine weather, from the comfort of ‘hot jacuzzi’.
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There is also a 24-hour, light-filled gym equipped with various Technogym cardio and weight equipment.
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On the 42nd floor, Fairmont Gold lounge has a variety of restaurant- and living room-style seating areas as well as its own coffee and drinks bar. I am a Fairmont Gold guest and when I chose breakfast up here, the same menu as at Kiln&Tonic; then, throughout the day, there were various snacks ( afternoon tea), evening canapes and’sweets for dessert’ presentations.
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hotel was uniformly polished, polite and warm – with service at the hotel saying “” in. I was looking at one piece of art or another, ducking my head into one of the restaurants or the spa. A staff member was immediately on hand to ask if they could help, take me on a tour or answer any questions. In less than 10 minutes, an ambulance call for a bucket of ice was made and wait staff at the various restaurants and bars could not have been more attentive without feeling like helicopter servers.
Fairmont Tokyo accessibility
All of the hotel’s public entrances and areas are wheelchair accessible, thanks to no-step pathways and elevators with lowered buttons.
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wheelchair-accessible rooms with widened doorways and entrances, grab bars in the bathrooms for each floor. As always, contact the hotel directly to ensure that its rooms and facilities meet your specific accessibility requirements.
Fairmont Tokyo booking details
The Fairmont brand is a member of Accor and participates in the accor Live Limitless loyalty program. All members can earn points on stays when booking directly through Accor for 25 point per 10 euros ($11) spend, and redeem them in increments of 2,000 points to save 40 euros (44) on hotel bills. A member of Accor also offers special rates, including discounts and add-ons like free breakfast or on-property credits.
At the Fairmont Tokyo start at $671 per night, Nightly rates are $1,597 for a night-stayed Fairmount Gold suite (although there is usually several members-only promotions with rates that include ‘third night free, breakfast or other value-adds only when booking directly through Accor) and “fairmont gold” (“the fairest hotel in which I stay”).
Checking out
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While its location may be a little out of the box for leisure travelers who want to see the usual list of Tokyo attractions, due to its proximity to HND and its access to several of city’s metro lines, it is still regarded as if one should visit Fairmont Tokyo. With its combination of deep-seated Japanese hospitality and contemporary art, design and cuisine, it is one of the most unique luxury hotels in the city; if only for those postcard-worthy views.
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