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From illumination tours to holiday feasts with all the trimmings, Palace Hotel Tokyo embraces festive cheer
TOKYO (September 16, 2025) – Palace Hotel Tokyo is preparing for one of the merriest times of the year with ‘A Tokyo Christmas’, a splendid stay package encompassing fine-dining, Christmas treats and in-room decorations, along with a privately guided experience of one of the city’s most popular sights, Tokyo’s winter illuminations.
The festive Christmas experience includes:
· A two-night stay – choice of Premier Suite or Executive Suite accommodations
· Club Lounge privileges – including afternoon tea and evening cocktails & canapés*
· Choice of daily breakfast at the Club Lounge or in-room
· A 5.9-foot-tall in-room Christmas tree decorated with lights and ornaments
· A bottle of Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé Brut and a tin of Christmas cookies
· An artful Christmas cake made in-house at Sweets & Deli
· A splendid prix-fixe Christmas dinner at Grand Kitchen
*Children below the age of 13 are permitted in the Club Lounge only until 5:30 pm daily
The holiday spirit is ever present throughout the Christmas season, with dazzling decorations adorning the hotel’s public spaces and a stately, 16-foot-tall Christmas tree taking pride of place in the grand lobby.
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With majestic lighting displays beginning to shine across the city each wintertime from early November through the Christmas holidays, a ‘Tokyo Illuminations’ tour is included in this year’s offerings. The approximate four-hour experience starts after dusk at guests’ choice of 5:00 pm, 6:00 pm or 7:00 pm.
In the company of a guide, guests will be chauffeured around the city in a private car to several of the areas featuring impressive installations, including the brilliantly lit Marunouchi Naka Dori, the 0.8-kilometer-long (half a mile), tree-lined boulevard that stretches from nearby the hotel to the ritzy Ginza district. Also on the itinerary are Omotesando and Shibuya, with their zelkova trees all aglow.
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Tailored to guests’ interests, the tour will include as many stops as desired (during the allotted time) – including the opportunity to swing by the Christmas markets at Roppongi and Azabudai Hills – as well as the services of a local photographer to capture the entire experience. At the top of Palace Hotel Tokyo’s roster of handpicked photographers is Gorta Yuuki, a seasoned professional whose versatile and artistic body of work has been featured in the likes of Vogue, Elle Décor and Condé Nast Traveller magazines, among others.
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Presenting an upscale experience but with the comfort and warmth of Christmas at home, Palace Hotel Tokyo’s all-day dining restaurant Grand Kitchen draws inspiration from the kitchen of a grand residence. A large, see-through fireplace adds to its cozy, welcoming feeling on chilly Tokyo nights. Its sumptuous, six-course Christmas menu includes abalone and zuwai (snow) crab, steamed flounder with caviar, and choice of grilled or roasted Japanese beef.
Guest who prefer a Michelin-starred Christmas or a more traditional Japanese menu can opt to dine at Esterre by Alain Ducasse – the hotel’s contemporary French restaurant featuring the natural flavors of Japan’s terroir – or at one of the hotel’s Japanese eateries instead (at additional charge). Options include kaiseki at Wadakura, teppanyaki at GO or tempura at Tatsumi.
Also on the menu – for enjoyment in-room – is one of the hotel’s coveted Christmas cakes, made in-house each year by the team at Sweets & Deli, the hotel’s popular pastry shop. This year’s selection of five cakes for ‘A Tokyo Christmas’ guests to choose from include:
· A decadent Noël à la Neige – a blueberry-rich take on the classic British Victoria sponge cake
· An all-about-pistachio Couronne de Noël made with luscious mousse and cream
· A Supérieur shortcake brimming with premium strawberries from Tochigi prefecture
· The hotel’s signature Marron Chantilly supersized into an indulgent mountain of snow
· Esterre’s exquisite Fleur de Noël featuring hints of almond, elderflower and apple tarte tatin
Travelers expecting to miss out on their favorite European-style Christmas breads and cakes while spending Christmas in Japan will be pleasantly surprised to discover Sweets & Deli’s array of homebaked stollen, kouglof, berawecka and panettone – including some with a uniquely Japanese twist, such as the Bohnen Stollen made with yuzu-flavored marzipan and kinako (soybean flour) and Kouglof de Noël baked with sweet chestnuts kneaded into a matcha dough and finished with a raspberry chocolate glaze.
Rates for ‘A Tokyo Christmas’ start at JPY 941,000, limited to stays between December 20-25, 2025.* Subject to availability. Booking requests must be received by 15 November.
*Rates include consumption tax, excludes accommodation tax and service charge
For more information, please visit: www.en.palacehoteltokyo.com/
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