How Much Is a Hotel in Japan? (2026 Data)

A hotel in Japan cost about $83.98¹ (¥12,561) per person per night in 2025, based on what Japanese travelers themselves paid on trips that used Western-style hotels.² A night in a ryokan, the traditional inn with tatami rooms, runs about 39% higher per person. Behind those averages sits a hotel boom: the official hotel price index rose 37.1%¹ between 2019 and 2025, Japan's hotels sold more guest nights than ever, and foreign visitors now account for more than a quarter of them.³

The surprise for American travelers is that the yen fell almost exactly as fast as the price index climbed, so a comparable room costs about what it did in 2019 in dollars, even though what travelers actually spent per night rose about a fifth in dollars. Below are prices by type of stay (hotel, ryokan, business trip or vacation, star rating), by prefecture and region, by month and weekday, the trend since 2015, how full the hotels are, what foreign visitors spend, the new accommodation taxes, and a short comparison with Tokyo.

How much is a hotel in Japan?

Japan publishes no official average room rate, but its national travel survey records what residents spend on lodging on every overnight trip and how many nights they stay. On trips that used a Western-style hotel, lodging came to ¥23,235² per person per trip in 2025, and those trips lasted 1.85¹ nights on average. Lodging spend divided by the nights of those trips is ¥12,561, or $83.98 per person per night, at the 2025 average of 149.57⁴ yen per dollar. The figure covers every kind of Western-style hotel, from a business hotel near a train station to a resort, and it is per person, not per room.¹ Two people at that average would spend ¥25,122 together, but that is our rough doubling, not a room price: the average mixes solo travelers who pay for a whole room with couples and children sharing one.

Booking-site and hotel-operating data measure rooms rather than people. Rooms searched for in Japan averaged $223⁵ a night for a double room, a price per room that leans toward the upscale hotels travelers look at, rather than the business hotels where most guests sleep. Twenty-nine hotels owned by a listed hotel investment trust averaged ¥20,576⁶ ($129.65) per room-night from January to August 2026.⁶

Average hotel cost in Japan per night

The per-person figure is the most useful starting point because it is official, national and recent. Trips that used a hotel added up to 322.8 million² nights in 2025, counting every night of those trips, so the average rests on a very large base. It runs a little low for one reason: package-tour trips count with their nights, but their bundled lodging sits in the tour fee, not in lodging spend; that whole fee, transport included, averaged ¥6,672 over all hotel trips.² It still blends very different stays: a couple on a weekend in Kyoto and a salesperson on a two-night trip to Nagoya are both in it. The sections below take it apart by type of stay, purpose, region and season.

How much is a hotel room in Japan in yen

In yen, a hotel stay cost ¥12,561¹ per person per night in 2025 and a ryokan ¥17,511.² For a room, search prices averaged about ¥35,392 for a double at the 2026 exchange rate of 158.71¹⁰ yen per dollar, a three-star room about ¥21,426 and a four-star room about ¥43,804.⁵ Those yen levels matter for the bill: accommodation taxes in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hokkaido step up at thresholds between ¥5,000 and ¥100,000 per person, covered in the tax section below.

How much is a hotel in Japan in US dollars

At the 2026 rate, the same yen prices cost less in dollars than in 2025: about $223⁵ for an average double room in searches, $135 for three stars and $276 for four. The official per-person figure of $83.98 is a 2025 value at the 2025 rate; at the weaker 2026 yen the same ¥12,561 comes to $79.14.¹

Hotel prices by type of accommodation

Split by the lodging used, the gap between types of stay is wide. Per person and night, a ryokan cost ¥17,511¹ ($117.08) in 2025, 1.39 times a hotel at ¥12,561. Pensions, minshuku guesthouses and rental cottages came to ¥12,215 ($81.67), close to a hotel, and members-only resorts ¥11,425. A paid private home (minpaku) was the cheapest paid option at ¥8,298¹ ($55.48), partly because its guests stay longer, 2.56 nights per trip.²

Staying with family or friends is not free of lodging costs either, but close to it: ¥707 per night on average.² Lodging spend here is what guests paid the place they stayed, so where an inn bundles meals into its price, they are part of the figure.

Average business hotel price in Japan in 2025, per night

Apart from family visits, business travel is the cheapest way to sleep in a Japanese hotel.² Residents on business trips who stayed in hotels spent ¥8,275¹ ($55.33) per night on lodging in 2025, against ¥15,343 ($102.58) on leisure trips, a ratio of 1.85.² Business hotels are also Japan's largest hotel type: they sold 46.3%¹ of all guest nights in 2025 and filled 75.3% of their rooms.³ Three such hotels in Tokyo owned by a listed REIT averaged ¥12,785⁶ ($80.56) per room from January to August 2026, under two-thirds of the trust's portfolio average.⁶

Average mid-range hotel cost in Japan

Search prices by star rating give the clearest view of the middle of the market. A three-star room in Japan averaged $135⁵ a night and a two-star room $92, the range most travelers would call mid-range.⁵

Average cost of a 3-star hotel in Japan per night

Three stars cost about $135⁵ (¥21,426) a night across Japan, $149¹¹ in Tokyo, $146¹² in Kyoto and $96¹³ in Osaka, the cheapest of the big cities.

Average cost of a 4-star hotel in Japan per night

Four stars double the price: about $276⁵ (¥43,804) nationally, with Kyoto at $443¹² the dearest prefecture for this class and Osaka at $123¹³ the cheapest of the big cities.

How much is a 5-star hotel in Japan

A five-star room averaged $594⁵ (about ¥94,274) a night, 4.40¹ times the three-star price. Tokyo's luxury hotels run far above that, at $1,097¹¹, while five stars in Fukuoka averaged $343¹⁴.

The star ladder looks different from one prefecture to the next. Kyoto's four-star rooms cost more than Tokyo's, while Osaka's five-star average of $315¹³ is lower than Kyoto's four-star figure of $443.¹²

How much is a nice hotel in Japan

For a stay one step up from the business hotel, the four-star average of $276⁵ is the honest benchmark for Japan as a whole.⁵ Kyoto charges the most for that comfort, Osaka the least of the big cities, and Hokkaido's four-star rooms averaged $173.¹⁵

Hotel prices in Japan since 2015

The national survey gives a yen level for every year since 2018. Lodging spend per person on a hotel trip rose from ¥13,175¹⁹ in 2018 and ¥14,184 in 2019 to ¥23,235 in 2025, 63.8%¹ more than in 2019; for ryokan trips the rise was 68.2%, to ¥31,368.²⁰ In 2020 and 2021, when travel collapsed, spending per hotel trip still rose, to ¥14,235 and then ¥15,995, 12.4% more.²¹

In yen, the per-night price of a hotel stay rose from ¥7,212¹⁹ in 2018 to ¥12,561 in 2025, while nights per hotel trip stayed close to two.²

Average hotel cost per night in Japan in 2024

In 2024 a hotel night cost Japanese travelers ¥11,447²⁵ per person, about $75.58 at the 2024 average of 151.46 yen per dollar, and a hotel trip's lodging ¥21,288.²⁵ The following year added 9.1%¹ per trip.

Average hotel price per night in Japan in 2025

In 2025 the per-night figure reached ¥12,561¹, or $83.98, up 65.6% on 2019 in yen.² In dollars the climb was far smaller: a hotel trip's lodging went from $130.10 in 2019 to $155.35 in 2025, 19.4%¹ more, and the spend per night went from $69.56 to $83.98, 20.7% more.

The consumer price index tells the same story for the price of a comparable room, with a longer view. Hotel charges stood at 111.6²⁶ in 2015 (2020 = 100) and 120.1 in 2019, then fell 16.7%¹ in 2020, also because government travel discounts lowered the prices guests paid.²⁷ When Japan reopened to foreign tourists, the index took off: 134.3 in 2023 and 164.6²⁷ in 2025, 43.6% above 2022 and 37.1% above 2019. All consumer prices rose 11.9% over the same six years.¹

What a weak yen does to Japanese hotel prices

Why does a Japanese hotel not feel 37% dearer to an American? Because a dollar bought 109.02⁴ yen in 2019 and 149.57 in 2025, 37.2%¹ more.⁴ Dividing the hotel index by the exchange rate gives the price in dollar terms: with 2019 = 100, it stood at 99.9¹ in 2025, back at the 2019 level, and at 79.1 in 2022, the cheapest year for dollar payers in the series.¹

Average hotel prices in Japan in 2026

Prices kept rising in 2026, but slowly: from January to September the hotel index ran 3.1%¹ above the same months of 2025, and from January to August 2.9% above.²⁸ In those eight months a dollar bought 158.71 yen on average, against 148.16 a year earlier, 7.1% more yen, which more than offset the price rise for a dollar payer.¹⁰ The REIT portfolio's room rate was flat, ¥173 above the same eight months of 2025.⁶ No official outlook for hotel prices is published; the straight-line trend in the chart above is our calculation, not a forecast.

When hotels in Japan are cheapest and dearest

Season moves Japanese hotel prices by about a fifth. On the 2025-based index, January was the cheapest month at 90.4²⁸ and August the dearest at 108.3, 19.8%¹ higher; June is the second dip, and October and November run high.²⁸

The longer monthly record shows how deep the pandemic cut. The index fell to 72.6²⁷ in November 2020, while government travel discounts were in force, and reached its highest reading so far, 181.4, in August 2025.²⁷

Japan hotel prices by month

Search prices show the same calendar from the traveler's side, in dollars per room. March was the dearest month at $257⁵ a night, and July the cheapest at $198, 23.0%¹ less; prices climb again from October to December.⁵ The official index and search prices disagree about summer: in the index August is the peak, while search prices bottom out from July to September.

Weekdays matter less than months. Tuesday was the cheapest night at $210⁵ and Saturday the dearest at $246, 17.1%¹ more.⁵

Demand follows the same rhythm. Japan's hotels and inns filled 54.6%³ of their rooms in January 2025 and 66.6% in October, the busiest month; ryokan peaked in August at 45.7%, the summer-holiday month.³

Hotel prices by prefecture and region

No official room rate exists by prefecture, but the government's lodging caps come close. From April 2026, the cap for government-reimbursed travel in workers' compensation programs is ¥21,000⁸ ($132.32) a night in Tokyo, ¥20,000 in Kyoto and ¥17,000 in Chiba, Hyogo and Fukuoka, against ¥9,000 in Fukushima, Tottori and Yamaguchi; the median of the 47 prefectures is ¥12,000 ($75.61).⁸ The Finance Ministry's draft rules for national civil servants' business trips set the same amounts where reported (Tokyo ¥21,000, Kyoto ¥20,000, Chiba, Hyogo and Fukuoka ¥17,000), revised for the fiscal year from April 2026 in line with market prices, so the map is a fair picture of where hotels are dear.²⁹

What visitors spend tells a similar story. Foreign visitors spent the most on lodging per night in Tokyo, ¥11,070¹ per person, followed by Nagano at ¥10,285 and Kyoto at ¥10,216; Hokkaido, Okinawa and Osaka followed at ¥8,377 to ¥8,908, and Hyogo was lowest of the main destinations at ¥4,350.⁷ These are rough figures: lodging spend per visitor divided by average nights in the prefecture, shown only where enough visitors answered and stays average two nights or more.

Behind the per-night figures are very different shares of paying guests. In Tokyo 74.1%⁷ of visitors paid for lodging, against 51.2% in Kyoto.⁷

Japan hotel average nightly rate in Tokyo and Kyoto in 2026

In booking searches, Tokyo and Kyoto are the two dearest prefectures by far: an average double room cost $397¹¹ in Tokyo and $395¹² in Kyoto, against $214¹⁶ in Kanagawa, $205¹⁵ in Hokkaido, $189¹³ in Osaka and $163¹⁴ in Fukuoka. Foreign visitors to Kyoto also stay briefly, 2.28 nights⁷ on average, so their lodging spending is concentrated into few nights.

Hotel operating data show regional room rates directly, for one investor's portfolio. Its resort hotels in Okinawa averaged ¥28,344⁶ ($178.59) per room from January to August 2026, and ¥47,112 ($296.84) in August alone.⁶ Its Osaka hotels averaged ¥20,849, 16.4% less than a year earlier, while Kanto outside Tokyo, Kyushu and the Chugoku region gained ¥1,308 to ¥1,441.⁶

Occupancy in the same portfolio was high everywhere, from 77.1%⁶ in Kyushu to 91.2% in Osaka.⁶

Occupancy differs widely by prefecture. Osaka's hotels were the fullest in Japan in 2025, at 78.6%³ of rooms sold, ahead of Tokyo at 76.3% and Fukuoka at 72.1%; Nagano filled only 39.0%.³

How full Japan's hotels are

Across Japan, hotels and inns filled 61.6%³ of their rooms in 2025, close to the 62.7% of 2019 and far above the 34.3% of the pandemic years.³⁰ The averages differ sharply by type: business hotels 75.3%, city hotels 74.1%, resort hotels 56.9%, ryokan 38.2% and simple lodging, the category of hostels and capsule hotels, 29.6%.³

Guest nights tell the size of the boom. Japan's accommodation sold 661.1 million³ guest nights in 2025, 10.9% more than in 2019, and foreign guests took 27.2% of them, up from 19.4%.³⁰

Business hotels hold almost half of all guest nights, 46.3%¹, with city hotels at 15.8%, resorts 12.3% and ryokan 12.0%.³

Foreign demand is concentrated in the big-city hotels. Foreign guests took 47.2%¹ of city-hotel nights in 2025, but only 12.9% of ryokan nights and 18.3% of resort nights.³

What foreign visitors spend on hotels in Japan

In 2025, 83.1%⁷ of foreign visitors paid for lodging in Japan, and those who did spent ¥89,523 ($598.54) on it per trip, 67.6% more than in 2019.⁴⁰ Spread over the average stay of 9.52 nights, lodging came to about ¥7,814 ($52.24) per visitor-night; long stays pull the figure down, and visitors from several countries stay for weeks on average.⁷

Spending per night differs by origin. Visitors from Singapore spent the most, ¥12,260¹ per night, followed by Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Hong Kong at ¥11,049 to ¥11,610; Americans spent ¥11,144 ($74.51) per night over an average stay of 12.02 nights.⁷ Visitors from Vietnam, many of them on long stays, spent ¥2,815.

Stay length moves the per-night figure. Visitors from South Korea stayed 3.96⁷ nights on average and spent ¥8,481 per night, while visitors from Vietnam stayed 45.34 nights and spent ¥2,815.⁷

Most foreign visitors sleep in hotels: 85.2%⁷ used a Western-style hotel during their trip in 2025, 13.0% a ryokan and 10.0% a paid private home; only 1.1% used a capsule hotel.⁷

The cost of a hotel stay in Japan for a week or two

How much is a hotel in Japan for a week

At the 2025 per-person average, seven hotel nights cost ¥87,927¹ ($587.87) per person before tax. At the search-price average for a double room, a week costs about $1,561 for the room.⁵ Season moves the bill: a March week sits about 30% above a July week in search prices.⁵

How much is a hotel in Japan for 2 weeks

Fourteen nights at the per-person average come to ¥175,854¹ ($1,175.73), and ¥351,708 ($2,351.46) for two people at that average; at the double-room search average, the room costs about $3,122.¹ Mixing types changes the total: one ryokan night at ¥17,511 per person in place of a hotel night adds about ¥4,950.²

Accommodation taxes and official price ceilings

A growing number of Japanese cities and prefectures add an accommodation tax per person and night. Tokyo charges ¥100⁴³ on stays priced from ¥10,000 to ¥14,999 and ¥200 from ¥15,000, and from April 1, 2027 it will charge 3% of the room charge, with stays under ¥13,000 exempt.⁴³ Osaka Prefecture raised its rates in September 2025 to ¥200 to ¥500, now starting at ¥5,000.⁴⁴ Hokkaido added its own tax in April 2026, ¥100 to ¥500, and 17 municipalities such as Sapporo and Niseko charge theirs on top.⁴⁵ Fukuoka Prefecture charges ¥200, or ¥500 in Fukuoka City from ¥20,000.⁴⁶

Kyoto went furthest. Since March 1, 2026, the city charges by five bands, from ¥200⁴⁷ on stays under ¥6,000 to ¥10,000 on stays of ¥100,000 or more per person and night, up from a top rate of ¥1,000; at that top band the tax is 10.0%¹ of a ¥100,000 stay.⁴⁷

Governments' own travel allowances give a ceiling for what a reasonable hotel costs. The US government allows its travelers up to $346⁹ a night for lodging in Tokyo, $328 in Fukuoka, $326 in Osaka-Kobe and $321 in Kyoto, and $201 in places in Japan without their own rate.⁹ Japan's own lodging cap for reimbursed travel ranges from ¥9,000 to ¥21,000, a factor of 2.33.⁸

Hotel prices in Tokyo compared with the rest of Japan

Tokyo is the dearest place in Japan to sleep on most measures, but not on all. Search prices for a double room there run 1.78¹ times the national average, foreign visitors spend 1.42 times the national figure per night in the national inbound consumption survey (Tokyo's own visitor survey, with longer stays in the city, gives a lower per-night figure), and its hotels filled 76.3% of rooms against 61.6% nationally.³ The REIT's three limited-service Tokyo hotels, though, charged less than its portfolio average.⁶ A separate page covers Tokyo hotel prices in detail.

What Japan's hotel prices mean for your trip

For an American traveler, the numbers point to a few practical rules. The yen has done much of the work: in dollar terms the price index for a comparable room is back at its 2019 level, but what travelers actually spent per hotel night rose about a fifth in dollars, from $69.56 to $83.98¹, so a budget from before the pandemic needs about a fifth more.² Timing is the cheapest saving: the official index puts August about a fifth above January, and search prices put July well below March.²⁸

Type and place do the rest. Business hotels, where almost half of all guest nights are spent, are the low-cost backbone of Japanese travel, a ryokan night costs about 39% more per person, and outside Tokyo and Kyoto a double room in search results costs about half as much.⁵ The new accommodation taxes are small for most stays, ¥100 to ¥500 per person and night, except in Kyoto's upper bands.⁴⁷

Conclusions

1. The yen, not the hotels, sets the price for Americans. Japanese hotel prices rose 37.1%¹ in yen from 2019 to 2025, but the dollar bought 37.2% more yen, so the dollar-terms index ended at 99.9; a further slide of the yen in 2026, 7.1% more yen per dollar from January to August than a year earlier, has so far outpaced the 2.9% rise in yen prices over the same months. Actual spend per hotel night still rose 20.7% in dollars from 2019 to 2025.²⁸
2. Two hotel markets share one average. Business trips in hotels cost ¥8,275¹ per person-night and leisure stays ¥15,343, and business hotels sell 46.3% of all guest nights; the per-person average of ¥12,561 sits between a cheap, full business-hotel market and a dearer leisure market.²
3. Foreign demand concentrates in the big cities. Foreign guests took 47.2% of city-hotel nights but 12.9% of ryokan nights, and the dearest prefectures in search prices, Tokyo at $397¹¹ and Kyoto at $395¹², are the ones foreign visitors favor; ryokan remain a largely domestic market with only 38.2% of rooms filled.³
4. Seasons cut both ways. The domestic calendar peaks in August, while search prices peak in March and bottom out in July; a July trip meets the low point of search prices, with March 29.8% above July, but not of domestic demand.⁵