The Prince Gallery is the Tokyo hotel with the best window. Every room has a huge framed picture window with a daybed along it, the corner rooms add a deep bath right at the glass, and the quiet spa floor and Levita bar are lovely. Breakfast is the letdown, and the rooms are a little worn in places. At about the Palace Hotel's price, it's my pick for a second trip to Tokyo, when you want the view more than the address. See pictures ↓
The Prince Gallery is the Tokyo hotel I kept walking past. It sits on floors 30 to 36 of a glass tower in Kioicho, between Akasaka and the government district, and it opened in 2016 as the top brand of Japan's Prince Hotels, with the Luxury Collection name (Starwood's then, Marriott's now) added on. It has 250 rooms and a lobby on the 36th floor, and it gets a fraction of the attention the Aman or the Palace Hotel get. Which is exactly why I wanted to try it.
What I'd heard about it was oddly consistent. Everyone loved the window. Everyone grumbled about breakfast. And the people I know who stay in Tokyo a lot kept weighing it against the Palace Hotel, because the two cost about the same.
A Deluxe room runs about $600 to $650 a night for much of the year. It drops under $500 in the sticky weeks of July and August, and climbs past $900 in cherry-blossom season. That's right alongside the Palace and the Ritz-Carlton Tokyo, and roughly a third of what the Aman charges. For that money you get one of the best views in the city... with one big asterisk at breakfast.
Things I Loved about The Prince Gallery Tokyo Kioicho
The window.
The first thing everyone does in a room here is walk to the window, and I mean everyone, in every room. Even the entry rooms have a huge picture window with a long, low daybed built along it, piled with cushions, and the city sits inside it like a framed painting (that's the whole idea; the hotel's own name for it is the "framed kaleidoscopic view"). We were in a Grand Deluxe Corner King, 58 square metres on the corner of the tower, so we got TWO walls of glass, with green parkland below and the towers of central Tokyo stacked up behind it. I spent our first hour on that daybed doing absolutely nothing.
The room.
It's big for Tokyo, and it's very quiet. Ours had a proper sitting area with a sofa and a desk by the window, then the bed at the far end, and the soundproofing is excellent; I never heard a thing from the corridor or the city. The bed is SO comfortable, with silky sheets and a choice of firm or soft pillows. Everything runs from a panel by the bed or the iPad (lights, blinds, curtains, air-con and Do Not Disturb), and it's one of the few hotel systems I've used that made sense the first time. In the morning the curtains slide open on their own and there's Tokyo.
My one tip on rooms… book a corner room if you can. The Grand Deluxe Corner King is the one with the bath at the window and the separate sitting area, and like every Grand Deluxe room it comes with the club lounge, the spa baths and breakfast. The standard Deluxe King (42 square metres) still has the window and the daybed, but it faces one way, and which way is luck. Some look west over the Akasaka Palace grounds, with Mount Fuji on a clear winter morning, and some look straight at the neighbouring towers.
The bathroom.
This is the other reason to book the corner. It's dark stone, white tile and glass, with a deep freestanding tub right against the window, a big rain shower and a TOTO toilet in its own little room, and the glass wall between the bathroom and the bedroom frosts over at the touch of a button. I had a bath every night with Tokyo Tower lit up in the window, which is a very good way to finish a day of walking. The toiletries are Byredo's Le Chemin, which smells lovely, with a drawer of little extras beside the basin.
The little touches.
Our welcome gift was a choice, and I took the chopsticks, which felt very Tokyo. Turndown comes in the early evening, and they ask whether you'd like a yukata or loungewear laid out, then leave chocolates and a handwritten note on the bed. The Nespresso machine and kettle are tucked into a cupboard, there's a Bose speaker by the window, and the water and ice were topped up without us asking.
Arriving.
You pull in on the 2nd floor, someone takes the bags, and a doorman walks you to the lift. Then the doors open on the 36th floor onto glass from floor to ceiling. With a corner room you're checked in on a sofa in the club lounge on 34, with a glass of champagne, which is the civilised way to do it. The lobby itself is grey marble and chrome, more cool than cosy, but honestly you won't be looking at the walls.
Levita.
The bar on the 35th floor is the best room in the hotel. It's two storeys high, with a wall of green glass rippling down beside the staircase like a frozen waterfall, wavy lights and the whole night skyline in front of you, with Tokyo Tower right in the middle. Order the frozen Monkey 47 or the Champagne Mojito. It gets busy (there's a DJ on Fridays), so book the sofas if you want them, and come for the drinks, because the pizza and pasta are perfectly fine and nothing more.
The club lounge.
The lounge on the 34th floor is small and hushed, and I loved it. Champagne flows from 5 to 7pm, there's Yamazaki on the shelf, and afternoon tea brings little panna cottas, cherry pie and strawberry shortcake. The evening food is a few hot and cold dishes, nice with a drink, though you'll still want dinner. The view of Tokyo Tower from the window sofas at night is worth going upstairs for anyway.
The pool and spa.
The 30th floor is the spa, pool and gym, and I mostly had it to myself. The pool is a 20-metre lap pool with the city right outside the glass, loungers facing the view and a jacuzzi beside it. The real treat is the bath hall, with hot and cold baths and a dry sauna, all looking straight out over Tokyo. They're single-sex and you go in nude (no phones, and no tattoos), and they're included for corner-room, club and suite guests. The gym is open 24 hours and it's excellent, with a yoga room that looks out at the Skytree.
The location.
It's better connected than it looks. You walk underground to Akasaka-mitsuke in about a minute, and Nagatacho station is joined to the building, so you've got five subway lines at the door. Shibuya is three stops away, Ginza is easy, and the restaurants of Akasaka are a short walk downhill.
The night view.
I know I keep coming back to the window, but after dark it's something else. From our corner, the roads below turned into rivers of light and the towers lit up one by one, and some nights we skipped going out altogether and just sat on the daybed with a drink.
Things That Could Be Better
Breakfast.
Breakfast at Oasis Garden is the letdown here, and it's the thing guests grumble about most. The room is beautiful, high up with floor-to-ceiling windows, but the service can't keep up when it's busy. On a busy morning we waited for a table, and once we had menus nobody came back to check on us. I had the Japanese set one morning, with grilled salmon and lots of little dishes, and the French toast the next. Both were nicely made, and neither is something I'll remember (if you go, the truffle scrambled eggs, done "espuma style" with a mushroom broth, are the dish people rave about). Since May 2026, Grand Deluxe, club and suite guests have breakfast at Washoku Souten instead, so Oasis Garden is the one you'll get on a Deluxe rate.
Dinner.
Eating in isn't a reason to stay here. Oasis Garden, the all-day restaurant up on 36, is a lovely room with herb planters and that view, and the seafood plate I had at a window table looked beautiful. But the cooking didn't live up to the room, and at these prices I'd go out to eat in Akasaka next time. If you want one dinner in the building, make it Washoku Souten, the Japanese restaurant on 35, with its teppanyaki and sushi counters.
Some wear and tear.
The hotel turned ten in 2026, and in places it shows. There were marks on the carpet in our room, and the corridors feel a bit lifeless after the drama of the lobby. In a standard Deluxe the bathroom is only average-sized, and because of the glass wall you can see straight in from the bed unless you frost it.
The rules around the lounge.
The staff are lovely, but the systems around them wobble. Check-in can be slow when it's busy, and the lounge rules catch people out. Marriott elite status doesn't get you in here, only a Club, Grand Deluxe or suite room does, and some guests only find that out at the door. To be fair, once we were settled the lounge team were brilliant at the practical things, from dinner bookings to holding our bags on the last day.
Quiet streets, and not for little kids.
Kioicho is an office district next to the Diet, so at night and at weekends the streets are very quiet, and you'll head down to Akasaka for dinner. It's also an adults-first hotel. The pool is for 13 and over and the baths and gym for 16 and over, so with young children I'd stay somewhere else.
Prince Gallery or Palace Hotel?
This is the comparison people actually make, because the two cost about the same.
The Palace has the balconies, the moat and the best location in Tokyo, a short walk from Tokyo Station, and its service is a notch smoother. The Prince Gallery is higher up and more modern, and its window and corner bath are better.
So for a first trip to Tokyo, I'd book the Palace. If you've done the classic stay and want the view, book the Prince Gallery. And I'd take it over the Ritz-Carlton Tokyo, which costs a little more and feels older.
For the full side-by-side, from the bath to breakfast, see my Ritz-Carlton Tokyo vs Prince Gallery comparison.
Overall
I think the Prince Gallery suits couples and repeat visitors who want a modern room with a big view, a quiet spa and a good bar, and who are happy to eat out. It's the wrong pick for families with young children, for anyone who wants a lively street outside, and for anyone who cares a lot about breakfast.
For the best location and a balcony, I'd book the Palace Hotel. For the palace view and the best all-round stay in the city, the Four Seasons at Otemachi, which costs more. And for the most beautiful room in Tokyo, Aman Tokyo.
So here's my bottom line. I gave it 8.0 out of 10. The window, the corner bath and Levita are the best things about it, breakfast and the tired carpets are the worst, and for the view alone it's fair value at Palace prices.
If you're booking it
Stay three nights, and I'd book a Grand Deluxe Corner King if you can, for the two walls of glass, the bath at the window, and the lounge and spa baths that come with it. Since May 2026, Grand Deluxe, club and suite guests have breakfast at Washoku Souten on 35, Japanese or Western, from 7 to 10. If you book a Deluxe King, choose a rate that includes breakfast and ask for a west-facing room for the best chance of Fuji, though it isn't guaranteed. Book Levita's sofas and any dinner before you arrive. Rates are lowest in July and August, when they dip under $500, and highest in late March and April, when they pass $900. Haneda is about 30 minutes by car, and an airport bus leaves from the building for both Haneda and Narita.
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