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MICHELIN names 19 new hotels to its 2026 Japan Keys list, taking the total to 145

MICHELIN's own annual ranking of Japan's best hotels grew to 145 Key holders, with Gora Kadan Fuji and Capella Kyoto stepping up to two Keys and 17 hotels — Park Hyatt Tokyo among them — newly named at one Key, the full national list neither Mitsui Fudosan's nor Four Seasons Otemachi's own releases on the same announcement covers.

Editorial illustration of a luxury hotel entrance at dusk: a small brass key motif above the doorway, a long diagonal driveway with soft reflections, a silhouetted doorman figure for scale.
Illustration by floortok.com

The MICHELIN Guide named 19 hotels newly to its Keys list for Japan in its 2026 selection, taking the national total to 145 properties, the guide's Japan operator, Nihon Michelin Tire Co., said in a release dated 18 September.