Stayed or inspected

A Noh stage over the pond, one family's inn since 1484

Entered by a 1703 gate, opposite Nijo Castle

On the site of the Tamozawa Imperial Villa's 1914 annexe

Forty-two suites looking due west at Fuji's summit

Across Lake Chuzenji to Mount Nantai, with a sulphur spring

Hinoki baths by the canal at Nanzen-ji, next to Murin-an

Where Kawabata wrote, at the meeting of two Amagi rivers

A 1922 governor's residence in a garden once Kofuku-ji's

Baron Kawasaki's 1899 villa on the Hozu River by Tenryu-ji

Yoshiro Taniguchi's 1962 lobby, reproduced by his son

A hotel since 1890 on the Choshu domain's old residence

In a Hongan-ji temple precinct, fitted by Kyoto craft heirs

Kume Gonkuro's 1936 Alps Wing, an inn since 1764

Rooms facing the Togetsukyo bridge, French in kaiseki form

A Meiji kimono draper's machiya, with pine garden and kura

On the Wadakura moat, opposite the Imperial Palace gardens

Kengo Kuma's rebuild of the Beatles' Tokyo Hilton

Inside the walls of Gion's 1936 Yasaka Kaikan theatre

Kingo Tatsuno's 1914 station, rooms looking into its domes

Suites of joined cells in a 1908 red-brick Meiji prison

Yamagata Aritomo's 1878 garden, pagoda and sea of clouds

Japan's state guest house of 1890, facing Hibiya Park