The chic sleep: Aman, Tokyo

This, Tokyo’s most glamorous hotel, is the Aman hotel group’s only urban outpost, located slap bang in the central district of Ōtemachi, Japan’s version of Wall Street. It occupies the top six floors of the Ōtemachi Tower, with jaw-dropping views at every turn, accessed by a lift that shoots you to the 33rd floor at ear-popping speed. Featuring black basalt, camphor wood and tactile stone, the architecture is both minimalist and monumental – echoey as a cathedral, imposing as a national bank, and sometimes as busy as a railway station in the now famous lobby, with its soaring, 30ft washi rice-paper atrium and giant windows overlooking the city skyline. A seasonal, tree-sized ikebana flower arrangement is the lobby’s focal point, surrounded by a shiny black water fountain, while adjacent rock gardens are a nod to the Zen culture of meditative stillness that paradoxically defines this, one of the busiest cities on the planet. Of course, peace and privacy are also the signature of Aman; an aesthetic ethos that finds its best expression in the sanctuary that is the hotel’s two-floor spa, with its enormous onsen overlooking the neon lights below. aman.com

Book in advance for the hotel’s famous Black Afternoon Tea, served in The Lounge, where you’ll feast on black bamboo meringues, dark chocolate treats and black sesame scones.