Nagasaki Marriott Hotel

The top-floor lobby lounge at night, with the Uragami and Nakashima rivers merging below and Mount Inasa framed in the distance, is a persuasive argument for booking high. This hotel sits inside the renovated Nagasaki JR station complex on the hill above town, so the views come with the convenience of arriving. Rooms are clean and spare, which makes sense when the panorama outside is doing most of the decorating.