The Best Hotels in Kitahiroshima

Four villas in Hokkaido meadows, each a self-contained residence with its own kitchen, fire pit, terrace, and outdoor onsen bath. Two units add a private pool. This is a small resort that bets everything on seclusion, the kind where the front desk doesn't hover because there essentially isn't one. A private chef can serve dinner in the meadow or by the pond, which sounds slightly absurd until you're the one sitting there.

Twelve rooms sit inside a working baseball stadium, which is either the most Japanese thing imaginable or simply the most fun hotel concept on earth. Tower Eleven Hotel hangs over Es Con Field Hokkaido's left-field wall, and the right room means watching a live game from your bed. An onsen and sauna are on hand for when nine innings is enough. The name nods to jersey number eleven, worn here by both Shohei Ohtani and Yu Darvish.