Palace Hotel Tokyo Ignites The Christmas Spirit With New Holiday Package

Date: 08 Oct 2025

Karen Jones

From illumination tours to holiday feasts with all the trimmings, Palace Hotel Tokyo embraces festive cheer.

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.

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.

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.

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/offer/a-tokyo-christmas

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