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1 Hotel Tokyo Offers a Serene Stay Amid the City’s Frenetic Energy

The hospitality brand's first Japan outpost brings its signature calm to Tokyo.

As a New Yorker for going on almost two decades now, it’s safe to say I’m inured to the frantic pace that this city and others like it possess. In fact, more often than not, I find myself traveling on vacation to other places that contain a similar, barely contained explosive energy—it’s why I planned a trip to Tokyo this March, perhaps the only other city on the planet that can rival NYC for sheer amount of stimuli.

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But just as I wouldn’t recommend anyone coming to New York to stay in the oversaturated melee of Times Square, nor did I want to be stuck navigating the neon lights of Shinjuku, or swimming in the sea of people at the Shibuya Crossing. For as much as I crave the Bret Easton Ellis-approved bright lights and big city, that’s not what I want needling my eyeballs as I try to fall asleep (probably at a dreadful hour thanks to the famously difficult transpacific jet lag). So you can imagine my delight in finding out that 1 Hotel Tokyo, a favorite zen-like hotel chain of mine, was not only opening in the city just a few days before I arrived, but doing so in........

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