Soho House Tokyo opened on April 6 in a seventy-five-thousand-square-foot tower tucked behind Omotesando. The fourteenth floor holds a pool lined in four thousand square feet of bespoke indigo tile from Gifu. Mount Fuji is visible from the west side at the right hour.
The rooftop pool, fourteenth floor, lined in TAJIMI tile from Gifu
The address is 3-8-35 Minamiaoyama, a side street between the Nezu Museum and Omotesando Hills. From the front desk you can walk to Prada Aoyama in six minutes and to Comme des Garcons in seven. New Tokyo hospitality tends to arrive in the sky above Roppongi. The choice of Aoyama is the more considered one. It places the house inside the neighbourhood its members already work in.
Forty-two bedrooms across the tower, from Cosy up through Extra Large. The parquet in each room is laid to echo tatami. The cushions and bed throws are sewn from vintage kimono silk, upcycled through a Kyoto workshop that has been doing this for three generations. Nothing about it feels souvenir. The fabrics have weight and history and the occasional repaired seam.
The building
Two floors of club space, a wellness studio, the pool deck on fourteen. The reception desk is a single block of Kyoto lacquer, hand-finished by Makino Urushi over several months. The walls behind it are clad in washi paper made by KAMISM, a paper house in Echizen that still pulls sheets by hand. These are the sort of details that show up in photographs and disappear in the bill.
Reception, Soho House Tokyo, with Kyoto lacquer by Makino Urushi
The interior design team worked through three years of prototyping with local artisans. European vintage furniture, the kind you see in every Soho House from Shoreditch to West Hollywood, sits beside Nagoya tiles and a collection of mid-century Japanese ceramics. The hybrid holds because nothing is disguised as anything else.
The cushions are sewn from vintage kimono silk. Nothing about it feels souvenir. The fabrics have weight and history and the occasional repaired seam.
Margaux DelacroixThe brasserie
The House Brasserie runs European comfort food through a Tokyo lens. A prawn Scotch egg arrives okonomiyaki-style, batter blistered and bonito flakes moving slightly in the warm air. The sticky toffee pudding is served as a taiyaki, filled with Okinawan black sugar caramel and stamped with the fish shape you know from street carts in Asakusa. The kitchen takes itself lightly and its ingredients seriously.
Off the main room, an Edomae sushi counter. Nine seats. Kunihiro Shinohara behind the wood, a chef who trained at Sushi Sho in Yotsuya and cooks with the pared-down grammar that house has made its calling card. The nigiri is served one piece at a time, the shari warm, the neta aged according to species. Reservations open to members first and release to hotel guests at a margin.
An Extra Large bedroom, vintage kimono soft furnishings, tatami-pattern parquet
The pool
The tile alone took eighteen months. Four thousand square feet of indigo and white, cut and fired at TAJIMI Custom Tiles in Gifu, laid in a pattern that darkens as it moves toward the deep end. Around the pool the deck is teak. West-facing loungers catch Fuji on clear mornings before the haze settles. Fashion week in Tokyo is late March. By the time the crews arrive in 2027 the tile will have the patina indigo earns in humidity.
The uniforms are by Onitsuka Tiger, a collaboration drawn from the brand's DENIVITA line and its research into Japanese denim. The staff wear a navy that reads almost black in low light. On the fourteenth floor the colour falls between the sky and the tile and you lose track of where the house ends and the city begins.
The verdict
The Park Hyatt is a cathedral and the Aman is a temple. Soho House Tokyo is neither, and was never trying to be. It is a house at the scale of a house, forty-two rooms dropped into the neighbourhood you already walk through between shows, with a pool tiled in indigo and a kitchen that refuses to be solemn about its taiyaki.
For members, it works on the first visit. For hotel guests, book a room on the higher floors, walk the ten minutes to Nezu Museum in the morning, and come back through the brasserie before the six o'clock light. The fabric on the bed will be warm by then. It usually is.
The Splendid Edit visited Soho House Tokyo in the opening week of April 2026. Hotel rooms open to non-members at a mark-up. Member rates on application through sohohouse.com.
Photography courtesy of Soho House, via Hypebeast