K5
Hotel · Chūō
3-5 Nihonbashikabutocho, Chuo City, Tokyo 103-0026, Japan
"K5 is noted for its contemporary Swedish design and boutique personality in Tokyo." - The MICHELIN Guide
"K5, a vibrant boutique hotel in a former bank building, blends traditional Japanese design with contemporary Swedish style. It features unique rooms with a record player, and public spaces that seamlessly merge a lounge, café, wine bar, and restaurant." - Louise George Kittaka
"Top amenities: Coffee bar, tavern-style craft brewery What’s nearby: Artisan stores in Nihonbashi, bakeries, cafes Housed within a former bank building from the 1920s, K5 maintains both a vintage and contemporary feel with copper-lined elevators and geometric flooring. Twenty spacious rooms feature high ceilings, warm wood textures, and blooming live plants. Free-standing beds are veiled by beautiful white and indigo dye-dipped curtains. Though there are no TVs in the room, guests can take their pick of a vinyl collection or unwind in the bathroom’s standalone bathtub. The ground floor is guided by the Japanese principle of aimai, which celebrates blurred boundaries. This idea translates in the space through interconnected areas that include the small plates Caveman restaurant, foliage framed seats, and a popular coffee bar. On the basement floor sits the tavern-style craft beer spot Brooklyn Brewery —its first location outside of the US." - Kristin Braswell
"Opened in 2020, K5 is an independent hotel in Kabutocho. Run by young creative minds, the 20-room establishment is housed in a 1923 bank building, an unsurprising setup in Europe but a rare treat in Japan where old properties are readily demolished."
"Tokyo doesn’t have as many boutique hotels as you might expect, but the ones it does have are exquisitely crafted and absolutely unique. K5, for example, takes a 1920s-vintage bank building in Nihonbashi Kabutochō — essentially Tokyo’s Wall Street — and, with the help of the Stockholm-based architecture firm Claesson Koivisto Rune, transforms it into a living tribute to contemporary Swedish design, and in the process illuminates some of the affinities between Swedish and Japanese aesthetics." - Tablet Hotels
