Banyan Tree Hakone Ashinoko

Banyan Tree Hakone Ashinoko is a planned luxury wellness resort on the shores of Lake Ashi in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, the caldera lake that has drawn travellers out of Tokyo for centuries with its natural onsen waters and framed views of Mount Fuji across the water. Developed by World Brands Collection Hotels & Resorts, the hospitality arm of the Tokyo real estate group Wealth Management, Inc., the roughly 150-key resort is part of a wider program placing international luxury flags across Japan alongside Six Senses properties in Hakone Gora and Niseko. The design follows the formula that defines Banyan Tree: spa and wellness programming at the centre, low-slung pavilion architecture worked into the landscape, natural hot spring bathing and a strong bias toward the surrounding setting, here mapped onto Hakone's volcanic terrain of cedar forest, geothermal springs and lakeshore. Set within Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, among Japan's most protected and most visited scenery, the resort will be the group's second directly branded Banyan Tree in Japan after its Higashiyama property in Kyoto, roughly ninety minutes from central Tokyo.