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    2-8-7 Izumi, Nagoya City, Aichi 461-0001, Japan · Nagoya City
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    Open now, until midnight

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  2. Rank 499. SINQ

    Charcoal-grilled French

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    5-18 Tatemachi, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima 730-0032, Japan · Hiroshima City
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    Open now, until 10:30 PM

    Friday 6 PM–8 PM, 8:30 PM–10:30 PM

  4. Rank 499. Soubiki

    Japanese

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  5. Rank 499. Sous-sus

    French

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    1-2-40 Omachi, Akita City, Akita 010-0921, Japan · Akita City
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 6 PM–10 PM

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  7. Rank 499. Sugaya

    Sushi

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    1-29-15 Higashiazabu, Minato Ward, Tokyo 106-0044, Japan · Minato Ward
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    Open now, until midnight

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    French

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    1095-101 Hagiwara, Gotemba City, Shizuoka 412-0042, Japan · Gotemba City
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday Noon–3 PM, 6 PM–10 PM

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    1-2-3 Shakado, Uozu City, Toyama 937-0067, Japan · Uozu City
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    Closed now, opens Sat 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–8 PM

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    73 Tairajiminamimachi, Iwaki City, Fukushima 970-8026, Japan · Iwaki City
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    Closes soon, 9:15 PM, in 41 min

    Friday 6 PM–9:15 PM

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    3-3-32 Kamisugi, Sendai City, Miyagi 980-0011, Japan · Sendai City
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday Noon–2 PM, 6 PM–10 PM

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    1-1-2 Yurakucho, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo 100-0006, Japan · Chiyoda Ward
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday Noon–3 PM, 5 PM–11 PM

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    1-2-7 Ichibancho, Matsuyama City, Ehime 790-0001, Japan · Matsuyama City
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    Closed now, opens 8:40 PM

    Friday 6 PM–8:20 PM, 8:40 PM–11 PM

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    3-3-24 Uomachi, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka 802-0006, Japan · Kitakyushu City
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday Noon–3 PM, 6 PM–10 PM

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    3-22-8 Nakakumarunouchi, Nagoya City, Aichi 460-0002, Japan · Nagoya City
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    Open now, until 10 PM

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    25-1-22 Minami 2-jo nishi, Sapporo City, Hokkaido 064-0802, Japan · Sapporo City
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 6 PM–10 PM, 8:30 PM–10 PM

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  39. Rank 499. Suyama

    Japanese

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  40. Rank 499. SYMPOSIUM

    Italian

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  41. Rank 499. Syn

    French

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    1-5-22 Kusagae, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka 810-0045, Japan · Fukuoka City
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 6 PM–10 PM, 6:30 PM–10 PM

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  43. Rank 499. TACUBO

    Italian

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    17-2 Sugiyamacho, Gifu City, Gifu 500-8829, Japan · Gifu City
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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  45. Rank 499. TAKAO

    Italian

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  46. Rank 499. Takiya

    Japanese


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  53. Rank 499. TOEDA

    French

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    1877-1 Nagakura, Karuizawa Town, Nagano 389-0111, Japan · Karuizawa Town
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–Noon, 6:30 PM–7 PM

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    1408 Yogocho Kawanami, Nagahama City, Shiga 529-0523, Japan · Nagahama City
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    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 26 min

    Friday Noon–2:30 PM, 6 PM–9 PM

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    Japanese

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    Italian

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    4-6-7 Kakazu, Ginowan City, Okinawa 901-2226, Japan · Ginowan City
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    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 7 PM–Midnight

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  60. Rank 499. TSUBAJIN

    Japanese

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    5-1-8 Teramachi, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa 921-8033, Japan · Kanazawa City
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    Closes soon, 9 PM, in 26 min

    Friday 11 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–9 PM

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  61. Rank 499. Tsukioka

    Japanese

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    3-12-12 Otemon, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka 810-0074, Japan · Fukuoka City
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday Noon–3 PM, 6 PM–11 PM

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  64. Rank 499. Ushimaru

    Italian

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    Japanese

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    Wood-fired American

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    17-15 Kimachi, Sendai City, Miyagi 981-0932, Japan · Sendai City
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–7 PM

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    Italian

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    Chinese

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    4-123 Kurokawacho, Yoichi Town, Hokkaido 046-0003, Japan · Yoichi Town
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday Noon–2 PM, 6 PM–10 PM

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    Japanese

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  80. Rank 499. YUKIMOTO

    Japanese

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    1-9-3 Towacho, Iida City, Nagano 395-0086, Japan · Iida City
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    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–10 PM

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    Japanese

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  82. Rank 499. ZURRIOLA

    Basque

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    6-8-7 Ginza, Chuo Ward, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan · Chuo Ward
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    Open now, until 10:30 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–3 PM, 6 PM–10:30 PM

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    5-6-7 Ginza, Chuo Ward, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan · Chuo Ward
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  84. Living walls and potted plants climb through the interiors of this sustainability-minded luxury hotel in Akasaka, giving the whole place the feeling of a Zen garden that also has a concierge. Rooms lean into wabi-sabi minimalism with layers of natural materials. Up on the 38th floor, a Bamford spa, hammam, and indoor pool come with city views. The bar stocks one of Tokyo's more serious Japanese gin collections, which is a fine reason to linger.

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  85. A ground-floor bar that draws as many locals as guests is a decent sign you've landed somewhere with a pulse. This compact, design-forward hotel sits a short walk from Nishiki Market and the edge of Gion, with streamlined rooms, smart storage, and good lobby coffee. Staff act as neighborhood connectors, which makes the city feel less like a backdrop and more like somewhere you actually are.

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  86. A machiya townhouse hotel in Nakagyo-ku, where the Meiji-era woodwork in the common spaces quietly does most of the talking. Rooms go contemporary-luxe but stay warm enough that the contrast feels intentional rather than jarring. Ryokan signatures show up in the bento breakfast and onsen bath, though the bath runs to polished marble rather than cedar, which tells you roughly where this sits on the spectrum between austere tradition and comfort.

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  87. Hot pink walls against Art Deco monochrome make an immediate argument that this hotel is not hedging its bets. Fauchon, the storied Parisian culinary brand, planted its flag in Kyoto with a property that is somehow more French than France and more Japanese than the concept has any right to be. A Salon de Thé, an on-site patisserie, a Grand Café, and the brand's first-ever spa fill the floors. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

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  88. A Finnish designer named a Kyoto boutique hotel after the word for "hut," and the rooms bear that out: compact "sleep-in" or "walk-in" compartments in soft wood tones, shaped around a house-like structure that somehow feels bigger than it measures. Shared bathrooms, supplied toiletries and linens, continental breakfast at the on-site Cafe Aalto. Women-only, which gives the whole quiet place a certain ease. Rates start very low by Kyoto standards.

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  89. The design here is built around a Japanese concept, teioku ichinyo, the oneness of garden and building, and it shows: three quiet courtyard gardens anchor a boutique hotel in central Kyoto, with willow and maple trees filtering light into a glass-walled lobby lounge and minimalist rooms colored after kimono textiles. The subterranean bath is guests-only, and a private bath lounge opens onto one of the courtyards for those who book ahead.

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  90. A boutique hotel in Nakagyo-ku built around a Japanese design principle that translates, roughly, as "narrow but deep," which describes both the footprint and the philosophy. Architect Takashi Yamaguchi worked in black granite and back-lit alcoves; some rooms look onto a courtyard wall thick with gardenias. Breakfast is traditional Japanese, served on locally made tableware via room service. The cocktail bar is very sleek and stays open late enough to matter.

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  92. The noodle bar runs around the clock, which says something useful about who this hotel is for. Moxy is Marriott's boutique play, and in Honmachi it lands well: rooms are compact but genuinely thought through, with fold-away furniture and beds that stop at queen because space here is a negotiation. The bar and lounge handles drinks and food, breakfast runs as a buffet, and Osaka's eating-and-drinking culture does the rest of the heavy lifting outside.

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  93. Two oversized kyomachiya townhouses, joined by a garden built to connect them, make up this seven-room modern ryokan a short walk from the Imperial Palace. The design theme is wagashi, the delicate sweets served with tea, which sounds precious until you see how it shapes every crafted detail without tipping into fussiness. Small, quiet, and considered in a way that feels native to Kyoto rather than borrowed from a brochure.

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  94. Node Hotel plants itself in Kyoto as a deliberate counter-argument to the ryokan tradition: industrial-chic architecture, 25 rooms, and a serious collection of contemporary art on the walls instead of lacquerware and tatami. It's a boutique hotel that reads more like a gallery you can sleep in. The restaurant pulls from local farms but ignores the kaiseki script, which in this city is a genuinely bold editorial choice.

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  95. A rooftop bar with views across the city sets the tone for this design hotel in Higashiyama, where the pitch is a younger, more cosmopolitan Kyoto rather than a shrine-and-temple reverence tour. The restaurant runs Italian dishes through a Josper charcoal oven using local Kyoto produce, and the bakery turns Japanese wheat into European loaves. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

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  96. A hotel at the southwest corner of Kyoto's imperial palace complex, where the rooms take a deliberate back seat to views of the gardens outside. The 81 rooms run to blonde wood and eggshell tones, and each comes with an individually sourced art piece. Staff will finagle a last-minute reservation or sprint out with an umbrella before you think to ask. Warm minimalism, not the cold kind.

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  97. A geometric facade cuts against the slightly ramshackle streetscape a short walk from Nijo Castle, which is about as good a symbol as you'll get for what this hotel is doing. Rakuro is a modern property with rooms that mix Western, hybrid, and tatami layouts, all rendered in natural materials through a decidedly contemporary eye. The Michelin Guide has it in their selected hotels, and it earns that nod without trying to be old Kyoto.

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The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Stay Score

      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.

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