The Best Places to Stay in Jingumae & around

Perched across the top floors of a Kitaaoyama high-rise, this hotel floats above one of Tokyo's most design-obsessed neighborhoods while keeping it very much in view through floor-to-ceiling windows. Rooms run mid-century modernist, all low-slung furniture and warm wood against the city grid below. Aoyama's boutiques, restaurants, and architecture are right outside, which is either the point or a very good problem to have. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Key

Steps from Shibuya Crossing, this design-forward hotel was built with creative professionals in mind, and the rooms make the case: contemporary colors, patterned textiles, clean modernist lines, and wardrobes sized for serious wardrobe rotation. The lobby lounge has enough distinct zones that you can actually use it, and the attached Torrent bar and restaurant runs modern Japanese food with a French fine-dining lean. Selected by the Michelin Guide.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

Staff uniforms at this Shibuya design hotel are sewn from textile offcuts salvaged off the local fashion industry's cutting-room floor, which tells you most of what you need to know about the place's ethos. Guest bikes are rescued abandoned ones, restored by local mechanics; the interiors run on reclaimed wood and vintage finds. The crowd skews young and effortlessly put-together, the way Shibuya crowds tend to.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels