Best Hotels & Lodges

Enjoy the beautiful views of rice terraces and beech forests, considered Japan's original landscape. Tokamachi, Niigata Prefecture, is a snowy region where people still live in harmony with nature. Our hotel, Hinano-yado Chitose, is located in Matsunoyama Onsen, a particularly snowy hot spring. Enjoy the open-air bath, which is 15 times more concentrated than Matsunoyama Onsen, one of Japan's three most medicinal hot springs, with water directly from the source. We await you with delicious rice and wild vegetables grown with melting snow, as well as other local ingredients, all made with local ingredients that can only be found in the countryside.

Each room is in a separate building, and each has its own unique atmosphere. Some of the rooms are renovated from old sugar wholesaler houses and storehouses built in the Edo period, and the fusion of these with modern architecture is one of the highlights.

Enjoy the ultimate luxurious everyday life, where you can stay not just as a traveler, but as if you were living there.

Everyone needs a place to lay their weary head. For travellers visiting Tonosho-cho, Shodoshima International Hotel is an excellent choice for rest and rejuvenation. Well-known for its family-friendly environment and proximity to great restaurants An offbeat island in the Seto Inland Sea, Shodoshima is famous for its olive groves, 400-year-old soy sauce breweries and a Mediterranean climate you really wouldn't expect in Japan. The Kokusai Hotel is on the western coast, a stone's throw from Angel Road, the photogenic sandbar that appears and disappears with the tides. It's a classic Japanese seaside resort and water is the star of the show: every room faces the ocean, the natural onsen gazes straight out to sea, and the dining is all about just-landed Seto Inland Sea seafood seasoned with the island's own olive oil and soy sauce.and attractions, Shodoshima International Hotel makes it easy to enjoy the best of Tonosho-cho.

Okayama is one of those cities that rewards anyone who takes the time to stop. Known as Japan's 'Land of Sunshine' for its immaculate, clear skies, there's plenty to keep you busy: Korakuen, one of Japan's three great landscape gardens; a famously black feudal castle; easy access to the Seto Inland Sea's art islands; and a local cuisine built around sweet white peaches, Muscat grapes and some seriously good scattered sushi. In the middle of it all is the ANA Crowne Plaza, located directly beside JR Okayama Station and linked by an overhead bridge. The 20th-floor dining and lounge give it a useful edge.

Valdivia often gets overlooked in favour of Patagonia's more famous landscapes, but this corner of Chile's Los Ríos Region has a quiet magic all its own. Set on ten hectares of Isla Teja, right on the banks of the Río Cruces wetlands and neighbouring the Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary, this recently renovated hotel offers something genuinely rare: luxury accommodation with direct access to one of South America's most important bird habitats. From the private dock, you can kayak or SUP through channels where black-necked swans, wild ducks, and countless migratory species go about their business largely unbothered by the outside world. The Valdivian Temperate Rainforest surrounding the property is one of only 34 global biodiversity hotspots – a rather grand claim, but one that becomes immediately believable when you start exploring the ancient trees and lush greenery of the hotel's own grounds.