Where to stay in Yokohama
last update: January 06, 2023
Yokohama is a city full of hotels and hostels for all budgets. Prices are generally cheaper than in Tokyo. It is advisable to sleep in Yokohama at least one day to be able to visit the city calmly. A night in one of Minato Mirai's panoramic view hotels is one of the most romantic modern experiences one can have in the Tokyo region.
The best area to stay in Yokohama
- The best area to stay in Yokohama is Minato Mirai, a futuristic district full of huge skyscrapers, shopping malls, museums, an amusement park and many other seaside attractions in the city bay. The main railway station is Sakuragicho, also directly connected with Tokyo. Also, other very popular areas such as Chinatown and Yamashita Park are pleasantly within walking distance by walking along the waterfront. Last but not least, almost all the hotels in Minato Mirai are located in skyscrapers from whose windows you can enjoy a breathtaking panoramic view that will leave you with indelible memories. Not surprisingly, the hotels in the area are very popular with couples. The only downside is that there aren't many budget accommodations. However, the hotels in Minato Mirai are very good value for the level of comfort they offer and are within everyone's reach. And then you rarely spend more than a night or two there. It is advisable to avoid only Saturday nights, when prices rise considerably because many couples, even from the area, decide to spend a romantic night in these parts.
- Among other areas, if you are looking for simpler and less expensive hotels, the Kannai area, a district that extends between Minato Mirai and Chinatown, is fine. Just make sure that the hotel is not far from one of the stations in the area.
- The area of Yokohama Station, the city's main station, is full of shops and restaurants, but Minato Mirai and Chinatown are not very close and you need to take the subway. In the list of recommended areas of Yokohama where to sleep, we put it in third place.
Hotel with a panoramic view of Yokohama Bay
The night view of Yokohama Bay, and especially the view from some large hotels in Minato Mirai, is one of the most romantic modern panoramic views in the Tokyo region and perhaps in all of Japan. If you are traveling as a couple and decide to spend at least one night in Yokohama, we sincerely recommend that you spare no expense and treat yourself to the pleasure of a night in one of our two favorite hotels, the Royal Park Yokohama or the Yokohama Bay Hotel Tokyu. Alternatively, there are also less expensive solutions for a less luxurious but equally romantic night. All the details to follow.
The best hotels with a panoramic view
If you can afford to spend a little more, this hotel is the best of the many high-end hotels overlooking Minato Mirai, and also one of the least expensive. It is located between 49th and 70th of the Landmark Tower, therefore very close to both Sakuragicho station and Minato Mirai subway station. The rooms are very large and elegant, and all have a panoramic view of the city or the bay. For an even more unforgettable experience, we recommend the corner rooms (photo to the side) which also have a small window next to the bathtub. Inside the hotel there is also a fitness center and several restaurants. Sirius restaurant on the 70th floor offers both buffet breakfast (3630¥) and lunch buffet (4500¥).
Price range: 12,000-35,000¥.
Another world-class hotel, located within the Queen's Square Yokohama complex, which includes a concert hall, shops and extensive gardens, and opposite the Cosmo World amusement park. Minato Mirai Metro Station is located below the building, while Sakuragicho Station is a 10-minute walk away. The rooms are huge (starting from 40 m2) and all have a balcony with a view. Highly recommended in the summer months, to enjoy the view or an aperitif in the open area. Inside the structure there are also numerous restaurants and a spa which includes a swimming pool on the 4th floor (entrance to the swimming pool 3300¥).
Price range: 20,000-35,000¥.
Low cost hotels with panoramic view
This hotel is in a fantastic location, in a thirty-story skyscraper opposite the east exit of Sakuragicho station, a five-minute walk from the man-made Shinko Island with all its attractions. There are numerous restaurants on the first floors of the building, while the reception is on the 4th floor. The hotel offers both very cheap single rooms (around 5000¥ per night) and rooms on high floors, overlooking the city or the bay, at the lowest price in the area (7000-8000¥ per night for a double room). Excellent breakfast but expensive (1700¥ per person). For the rest, the Washington hotels are a medium-range Japanese chain that guarantees extreme cleanliness and small rooms but equipped with everything you need.
Price range: 5,000-8,000¥.
A skyscraper in the heart of Minato Mirai from the popular APA business hotel chain. Like all hotels in this chain, the rooms are very small, but modern and well equipped. The structure also offers large public baths available to guests, and, in summer, an outdoor panoramic swimming pool. However, be careful when booking if you want a panoramic view, because the rooms that cost less do not have any views.
Price range: rooms without view 6,000-7,000¥, rooms with view 8,000-12,000¥.
Other hotels with panoramic views
InterContinental Yokohama Grand, in a sail-shaped skyscraper inside the Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Center, located at the western tip of Minato Mirai.
InterContinental Yokohama Pier 8, within the Yokohama Hammerhead complex, a low-rise building but located on a pier, with close-up views of the sea.
Navios Yokohama, a mid-level business hotel located in the arch building on the man-made island of Shinko.
Oakwood Suites Yokohama, an aparthotel whose rooms have a kitchenette, located between the 46th and 51st floors of a skyscraper near Bashamichi Station.
Hotels recommended for everyone
This hotel is in a fantastic location, in a thirty-story skyscraper opposite the east exit of Sakuragicho station, a five-minute walk from the man-made Shinko Island with all its attractions. There are numerous restaurants on the first floors of the building, while the reception is on the 4th floor. The hotel offers both very cheap single rooms (around 5000¥ per night) and rooms on high floors, overlooking the city or the bay, at the lowest price in the area (7000-8000¥ per night for a double room). Excellent breakfast but expensive (1700¥ per person). For the rest, the Washington hotels are a medium-range Japanese chain that guarantees extreme cleanliness and small rooms but equipped with everything you need.
Price range: 5,000-8,000¥.
A mid-level business hotel in a very strategic location, between Chinatown and Yamashita Park on the waterfront, a few hundred meters from both and very close to the Nihon-Odori subway station. Both the rooms and the bathrooms inside the rooms are bigger than the usual Japanese business hotels where you can barely open a suitcase on the floor. Excellent breakfast buffet. One of the best hotels in terms of quality-location-price ratio, recommended for those who are not interested in a panoramic view.
Price range: single rooms 7,000-8,000¥, double rooms 8,500-9,000¥.
A good business hotel from the reliable Super Hotels chain, located a few minutes' walk from the bustling Chinatown and Nihon-Odori subway station. The property has recently been refurbished, and it shows. New rooms with a very contemporary design. Free buffet breakfast for all guests, very good but mostly Japanese food.
Price range: single rooms 5,000-6,000¥, double rooms 7,500-8,000¥.
A skyscraper in the heart of Minato Mirai from the popular APA business hotel chain. Like all hotels in this chain, the rooms are very small, but modern and well equipped. The structure also offers large public baths available to guests, and, in summer, an outdoor panoramic swimming pool. However, be careful when booking if you want a panoramic view, because the rooms that cost less do not have any views.
Price range: rooms without view 6,000-7,000¥, rooms with view 8,000-12,000¥.
Particularly cheap accommodations
Hostels with shared rooms
A small hostel with 10 beds in all, in a single room which therefore hosts men and women all together. It is located in the heart of Yokohama's Chinese district, just outside the hotel you will be spoiled for choice of shops and restaurants and Motomachi Chukagai station is just a few hundred meters away. Welcoming and familiar environment, with a common area and a café at the entrance. It is the hostel that we most recommend in the city, with very low prices, it is not easy to find accommodation in Yokohama that costs less than this hostel.
Price range: bunk bed in dormitory 2,600-3,000¥.
A guesthouse about 500 meters from Sakuragicho station, therefore not far from Minato Mirai. The guesthouse is family-run, in a building that is nothing more than an old restored house in a residential area. The owner is a lovely person and speaks excellent English. The guesthouse offers a large room with six beds for women only, and two private rooms with shared bathroom, which can accommodate up to two and up to three people respectively.
Price range: bunk bed in female dormitory 3,000¥, private room 3,600¥.
Capsule hotels
A capsule hotel very close to Sakuragicho station, just a few minutes walk from the fantastic Minato Mirai district. It is one of the few places where you can sleep on the cheap in Minato Mirai, although the price is still relatively high considering that it is a capsule hotel. The hotel offers both standard capsules and superior capsules which also have a small corridor with a desk next to the capsule. The property offers large public baths for all guests and a very large and convenient breakfast buffet (it costs only 1000¥!).
Price range: standard capsule 4,000-4,500¥, superior capsule 5,500-5,500¥.
A capsule hotel on the 14th floor of the Yokohama Sky Building, a skyscraper near Yokohama Station which also houses department stores, a Pokemon Center, and several panoramic restaurants on the top floors. Yokohama Sky Spa, as the name suggests, is much more than a capsule hotel. It is a wellness center with large thermal baths and sauna with panoramic views, massage service, and other relaxation services available to all guests.
Price range: capsule 4,000-5,000¥.
Private rooms in Kotobukicho
In the
Kotobukicho area there are instead some hostels that also offer private rooms with particularly low prices compared to the norm. The reason is that this area is considered to be one of the poorest and most degraded in Yokohama, even if from a safety point of view there are no problems and the standards in Japan are so high that even the degraded areas seem normal after all for a foreigner. A few minutes' walk from this area is the tourist area of
Chinatown and
Ishikawacho Station. In this area you can sleep for 2500-3000¥ for tiny private single rooms. If you are looking for single rooms at the lowest prices in town, you can take a look at:
the low cost rooms in the hostels of Kotobukicho
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If you can afford to spend a little more, this hotel is the best of the many high-end hotels overlooking Minato Mirai, and also one of the least expensive. It is located between 49th and 70th of the Landmark Tower, therefore very close to both Sakuragicho station and Minato Mirai subway station. The rooms are very large and elegant, and all have a panoramic view of the city or the bay. For an even more unforgettable experience, we recommend the corner rooms (photo to the side) which also have a small window next to the bathtub. Inside the hotel there is also a fitness center and several restaurants. Sirius restaurant on the 70th floor offers both buffet breakfast (3630¥) and lunch buffet (4500¥).
Price range: 12,000-35,000¥.
Another world-class hotel, located within the Queen's Square Yokohama complex, which includes a concert hall, shops and extensive gardens, and opposite the Cosmo World amusement park. Minato Mirai Metro Station is located below the building, while Sakuragicho Station is a 10-minute walk away. The rooms are huge (starting from 40 m2) and all have a balcony with a view. Highly recommended in the summer months, to enjoy the view or an aperitif in the open area. Inside the structure there are also numerous restaurants and a spa which includes a swimming pool on the 4th floor (entrance to the swimming pool 3300¥).
Price range: 20,000-35,000¥.
This hotel is in a fantastic location, in a thirty-story skyscraper opposite the east exit of Sakuragicho station, a five-minute walk from the man-made Shinko Island with all its attractions. There are numerous restaurants on the first floors of the building, while the reception is on the 4th floor. The hotel offers both very cheap single rooms (around 5000¥ per night) and rooms on high floors, overlooking the city or the bay, at the lowest price in the area (7000-8000¥ per night for a double room). Excellent breakfast but expensive (1700¥ per person). For the rest, the Washington hotels are a medium-range Japanese chain that guarantees extreme cleanliness and small rooms but equipped with everything you need.
Price range: 5,000-8,000¥.
A skyscraper in the heart of Minato Mirai from the popular APA business hotel chain. Like all hotels in this chain, the rooms are very small, but modern and well equipped. The structure also offers large public baths available to guests, and, in summer, an outdoor panoramic swimming pool. However, be careful when booking if you want a panoramic view, because the rooms that cost less do not have any views.
Price range: rooms without view 6,000-7,000¥, rooms with view 8,000-12,000¥.
A mid-level business hotel in a very strategic location, between Chinatown and Yamashita Park on the waterfront, a few hundred meters from both and very close to the Nihon-Odori subway station. Both the rooms and the bathrooms inside the rooms are bigger than the usual Japanese business hotels where you can barely open a suitcase on the floor. Excellent breakfast buffet. One of the best hotels in terms of quality-location-price ratio, recommended for those who are not interested in a panoramic view.
Price range: single rooms 7,000-8,000¥, double rooms 8,500-9,000¥.
A good business hotel from the reliable Super Hotels chain, located a few minutes' walk from the bustling Chinatown and Nihon-Odori subway station. The property has recently been refurbished, and it shows. New rooms with a very contemporary design. Free buffet breakfast for all guests, very good but mostly Japanese food.
Price range: single rooms 5,000-6,000¥, double rooms 7,500-8,000¥.
A small hostel with 10 beds in all, in a single room which therefore hosts men and women all together. It is located in the heart of Yokohama's Chinese district, just outside the hotel you will be spoiled for choice of shops and restaurants and Motomachi Chukagai station is just a few hundred meters away. Welcoming and familiar environment, with a common area and a café at the entrance. It is the hostel that we most recommend in the city, with very low prices, it is not easy to find accommodation in Yokohama that costs less than this hostel.
Price range: bunk bed in dormitory 2,600-3,000¥.
A guesthouse about 500 meters from Sakuragicho station, therefore not far from Minato Mirai. The guesthouse is family-run, in a building that is nothing more than an old restored house in a residential area. The owner is a lovely person and speaks excellent English. The guesthouse offers a large room with six beds for women only, and two private rooms with shared bathroom, which can accommodate up to two and up to three people respectively.
Price range: bunk bed in female dormitory 3,000¥, private room 3,600¥.
A capsule hotel very close to Sakuragicho station, just a few minutes walk from the fantastic Minato Mirai district. It is one of the few places where you can sleep on the cheap in Minato Mirai, although the price is still relatively high considering that it is a capsule hotel. The hotel offers both standard capsules and superior capsules which also have a small corridor with a desk next to the capsule. The property offers large public baths for all guests and a very large and convenient breakfast buffet (it costs only 1000¥!).
Price range: standard capsule 4,000-4,500¥, superior capsule 5,500-5,500¥.
A capsule hotel on the 14th floor of the Yokohama Sky Building, a skyscraper near Yokohama Station which also houses department stores, a Pokemon Center, and several panoramic restaurants on the top floors. Yokohama Sky Spa, as the name suggests, is much more than a capsule hotel. It is a wellness center with large thermal baths and sauna with panoramic views, massage service, and other relaxation services available to all guests.
Price range: capsule 4,000-5,000¥.
the low cost rooms in the hostels of Kotobukicho
