Why you should experience DoubleTree Tokyo Ariake in Tokyo, Japan.
DoubleTree Tokyo Ariake is a contemporary waterfront hotel where Ariake's exhibition culture, geometric architecture and evolving creative character converge within a property shaped by Tokyo's twenty-first-century bayside expansion.
Set along Ariake Park Street near Ariake Central Tower and just steps from Kokusai-tenjijo Station, the hotel occupies a 2018 building designed by Azusa Sekkei as part of a complex conceived beside the Rinkai Line and Yurikamome interchange serving Tokyo's waterfront exhibition district. Azusa Sekkei developed the original interiors around a “Stylish × Warm Design” concept combining wood surfaces with sharper metal elements, while AD CORE DEVISE supplied furniture selected to unite Japanese craftsmanship with the building's contemporary urban character. The property's current visual character introduces triangular pyramid forms referencing Tokyo Big Sight alongside traditional asanoha hemp-leaf patterns and artworks created from upcycled kimono textiles, connecting Ariake's futuristic built environment with Japanese decorative culture. The result is a hotel where Azusa Sekkei, AD CORE DEVISE, asanoha geometry and repurposed kimono transform Ariake's convention-district architecture into a distinctly contemporary expression of Tokyo.
What you should know about DoubleTree Tokyo Ariake.
DoubleTree Tokyo Ariake is best known for opening on December 20, 2024 after Hilton transformed the former Daiwa Roynet Hotel Tokyo Ariake into the first DoubleTree by Hilton property in Tokyo and the wider Kanto region. The building's hospitality history began on October 1, 2018 when Daiwa Royal opened Daiwa Roynet Hotel Tokyo Ariake as the brand's 48th Japanese property and fourth in Tokyo, following a 2014 proposal in which Daiwa Royal and Azusa Sekkei won a Tokyo Metropolitan Government-sponsored competition for the site. The original hotel became the largest Daiwa Roynet property then operating, while its location beside Ariake Station and Kokusai-tenjijo Station had been conceived in anticipation of international demand surrounding the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the neighboring exhibition district. Daiwa House Realty Management closed the property on March 31, 2024, ending its first hospitality chapter before the Hilton conversion brought the building back into operation less than nine months later. The 2014 competition, Daiwa Royal, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 2018 opening, Tokyo 2020 development rationale, March 2024 closure and December 2024 Hilton conversion give DoubleTree Tokyo Ariake a concentrated history directly connected with Ariake's rapid emergence as an international events district.
Hilton developed the conversion through an agreement with SRE Asset Management, Mitsubishi HC Capital Realty and SRE Holdings, introducing DoubleTree into the capital after the brand had already expanded through Japanese destinations including Toyama, Kyoto and Osaka. DoubleTree Tokyo Ariake became Hilton's 30th hotel in Japan at opening, extending a Japanese presence that began with Tokyo Hilton in 1963 and reached its 60th anniversary in 2023. SAUS became the principal culinary expression of the converted property through seasonal Japanese ingredients and contemporary interpretations of local comfort food, while Brew33 Bar established a separate social character around cocktails and craft beer within the renewed hotel. Together, Hilton, SRE Asset Management, Mitsubishi HC Capital Realty, SRE Holdings, SAUS and Brew33 Bar connect the building's second hospitality chapter with Hilton's broader Japanese expansion, transforming a six-year-old Daiwa Roynet property into the Tokyo debut of one of Hilton's largest international brands.
How to fold DoubleTree Tokyo Ariake into your trip.
DoubleTree Tokyo Ariake works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing exhibition architecture, digital art and the extraordinary reinvention of Tokyo's reclaimed waterfront.
Begin at Tokyo Big Sight, where AXS Satow designed the convention center around four grand inverted pyramids elevated above the ground, creating the architectural form that became synonymous with Ariake after the complex opened in 1996. Continue to teamLab Planets TOKYO, where the interdisciplinary collective teamLab developed a body-immersive digital environment in Toyosu that asks visitors to move barefoot through water, mirrored surfaces, flowers and responsive light as physical boundaries between artwork and viewer dissolve. Conclude at Toyosu Market, opened in October 2018 after the wholesale functions of Tsukiji Market relocated to a purpose-built waterfront complex whose seafood auctions continue a commercial lineage fundamental to Tokyo's food culture. The progression moves from Tokyo Big Sight's grand exhibition architecture through teamLab's digitally constructed environments into Toyosu Market's reinvention of the city's wholesale food infrastructure, revealing the ambitious contemporary institutions that define the waterfront surrounding DoubleTree Tokyo Ariake.
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