Dec 6, 2019
By Chris Schalkx.
Shinjuku’s hipster honeypot Trunk(Hotel) has expanded, with its second outpost taking over a former geisha house along a cobblestone alley in Kagurazuka, Tokyo’s “little Kyoto.” Matching traditional tatami floors, a genkan-style entryway and a hinoki-wood bathtub with Charles Eames furnishings and Noguchi lights, this one-room boutique stay is a designer’s daydream.
trunk-house.com; from ¥442,750 per night.
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