Which MIMARU to stay in in Tokyo with kids
Written October 2026
Thirteen MIMARU hotels in Tokyo, and how to pick the one that fits your kids, your group and your trip.
Here's the thing nobody tells you about booking Tokyo with kids: the hotel room is usually the smallest part of the problem and the biggest part of the trip. Four people in a room built for two, no table to eat a convenience store breakfast at, and everyone's laundry hanging off the curtain rail by day three.
MIMARU is the chain that looks at that problem and builds the whole hotel around it. These are apartment hotels. Every room has a kitchen and a dining table, a washstand and bath that are separate from each other (which matters more than it sounds when one kid is in the bath and another needs the toilet), and there's coin laundry in the building. (There's no breakfast, but the kitchen is the point.) Rooms are made for groups of four up to ten, with bunk beds, loft beds, tatami floors and rooms with real bedrooms and doors.
The catch is that there are thirteen of them in this guide, and what separates them is the stuff kids care about: a Pokémon room, a ninja room, a floor you can rent whole. So this page is sorted that way. First, what you want. Then which hotel has it, then each one in turn, by neighborhood.
Short on time? Ninja room: Ueno Okachimachi. Pokémon room: Kinshicho, Ginza East, Hatchobori, Ikebukuro or Ueno East. Most room for a big group: Ueno Inaricho, which rents out a whole floor. Washer-dryer in the room: Suites Asakusa.
How we picked
Everything here comes from MIMARU's own hotel pages and each Play Day listing. Where a page doesn't say something, we left it out. The hotel's own page has the full room list. How to book is on each listing.
Which MIMARU for what you want
Start with what you actually want, because that narrows thirteen to two or three.
**Pokémon rooms.** Five hotels have one: Kinshicho, Ginza East, Hatchobori, Ikebukuro and Ueno East. They sleep four on single beds, or on loft beds at Ikebukuro.
**The ninja room.** Only MIMARU Tokyo Ueno Okachimachi has it. It sleeps up to eight.
**Tatami floors.** Most MIMARUs have a Japanese apartment with tatami, so this won't narrow much. The roomiest are the 74 square meter Japanese suite at Suites Asakusa and the connecting Japanese apartment at Akasaka.
**The most beds, or a whole floor.** Ueno Inaricho rents three connected rooms for up to twelve adults and six kids. For one big room instead, look at the Deluxe Two-Bedroom Suite at Asakusa Station, or the Connecting Japanese Apartment at Akasaka, which sleeps up to eight adults and four kids.
**Views.** Asakusa Station has River View rooms over the Sumida, with the summer fireworks visible from the room. Akasaka has high floor city views and a rooftop balcony.
**A washer-dryer in the room.** Suites Asakusa has one in every room. The Ikebukuro two-bedroom suites and the Tokyo Station East premium rooms have them too.
**Accessible rooms.** Kinshicho and Ikebukuro each have one (Ikebukuro's is a one-bedroom for wheelchair users), and Tokyo Station East lists accessible rooms.
**Location.** Asakusa and Kinshicho are the Skytree and temple side. Ueno is the park and the museums, on the Ginza Line. Ginza, Hatchobori and Tokyo Station East are the middle of the city, with direct trains from Hatchobori to Maihama for Disney. Shinjuku West is the big-station base, Ikebukuro is the department store and anime side, and Akasaka is a quiet residential street. The 4 days in Tokyo plan shows how each side fits the days.
Asakusa and Kinshicho
The Sumida River side. Sensoji and the Skytree are here, the Sumida Aquarium is nearby. It's also where two of the roomiest MIMARUs are.
MIMARU SUITES Tokyo Asakusa
Asakusa
Every room here is a two-bedroom or bigger, so there's no small room to end up in by accident. The Two-Bedroom Suite is 60 square meters for four adults and two kids, and there's a Japanese suite with tatami and futons at 74 square meters that sleeps up to six adults and two kids. A premium suite has a projector, which is how you win a rainy evening.
It's also the one with a washer-dryer in every room, so you can pack light and do a load on day four. Sensoji and the Skytree are both nearby.
MIMARU Tokyo Asakusa Station
Asakusa
The one with the river. River View rooms look over the Sumida, and in summer you can watch the fireworks from the room, which is a hard thing to book anywhere else. There's a bunk bed Family Apartment at 35 square meters, and a Deluxe Two-Bedroom Suite at 71 square meters for up to eight adults and two kids.
Skytree, the Sumida Aquarium and Sensoji are all nearby. Laundry here is the coin kind in the building, not in the room, so if that matters to you, look at Suites Asakusa instead.
MIMARU Tokyo Kinshicho
Kinshicho
Eight room categories, and two of them are the reason kids will remember it: a Pokémon room decorated with 100 characters, and a UKIYO-E room. There's also a Japanese Apartment with tatami, a Superior One-Bedroom with loft beds, a Family Apartment with bunk beds and a wheelchair accessible room.
Kinshicho Station is a three-minute walk, and the Sumida Aquarium and Asakusa are both close.
Ueno
Four MIMARUs, and the cluster most people end up choosing between. Ueno Park and the Tokyo National Museum are on one side, Ameyoko's market street is on the other, and the Ginza Line gets you to Asakusa and Shibuya without changing. The four are different enough that it's worth choosing on purpose.
MIMARU Tokyo Ueno Okachimachi
Ueno
This is the ninja one, and it's as good as it sounds. The Ninja Room is 75 square meters and sleeps up to eight. There's a large central table on a platform, a bunk bed area with its own bathroom, and separate bedrooms, and the walls are full of shuriken replicas, scrolls, kusarigama and kunai replicas. Ninja costumes are there to rent. If you have a kid between five and twelve, you may not need to read any further.
There's a sushi themed Premium Family Apartment at 75 square meters too, plus a Japanese Apartment with tatami, a One-Bedroom with a sofa bed and a bunk bed Family Apartment. Ueno Hirokoji Station is three minutes on foot, and the airport express trains are about eight.
MIMARU Tokyo Ueno East
Ueno
Pokémon, with Ueno Station three minutes away. The Pokémon Room is 40 square meters with four single beds, so no one shares. There's a bunk bed Family Apartment, a Japanese Apartment with tatami and a 78 square meter Connecting Japanese Apartment for a bigger group.
Ameyoko and the Tokyo National Museum are both nearby.
MIMARU Tokyo Ueno North
Ueno
The one closest to the park: Ueno Park is right over the bridge. The Train View Family Apartment has a bunk bed and, as you'd guess, a view of the tracks, which is its own kind of entertainment for a small kid. The Premium Family Apartment is a concept room at 50 square meters with a counter kitchen, and the Superior Family Apartment is for six at 52 square meters, with a bunk bed.
There's a Premium Japanese Apartment with tatami at 51 square meters. Cribs here are in limited supply.
MIMARU Tokyo Ueno Inaricho
Ueno
The one for a really big group. It only has three room types, and one of them is Floor Rental: three connected rooms for up to twelve adults and six kids. Grandparents, cousins and everyone's luggage, all on one floor. The other two are a Japanese Apartment with tatami and a sofa bed Apartment at 38 square meters.
It sits on the Ginza Line at Inaricho Station, and Ueno Station is about five minutes away. There's a supply area where you can borrow high chairs and stepping stools, which is more useful than it sounds the first time a toddler needs to reach the sink.
Ginza, Hatchobori and Tokyo Station
The middle of the city, and the side you want for Disney, Tsukiji and Akihabara. Hatchobori has direct trains to Maihama, which is the main reason to pick it if the parks are on the plan.
MIMARU Tokyo Ginza East
Ginza
A Pokémon Room at 39 square meters, with 100 Pokémon designs, and a Premium Family Apartment with an artist collaboration design at 58 square meters. There's also a Premium Japanese Apartment with tatami, a bunk bed Family Apartment, a Loft Bed Apartment and a Superior Family Apartment for six.
Kabuki-za is nearby, and the hotel's page names teamLab Planets and DisneySea as places to go from here.
MIMARU Tokyo Hatchobori
Hatchobori
More choices than most: a Pokémon Room at 38 square meters, a King Bed Family Apartment (a king bed plus bunk beds, so you get a bed too), a bunk bed Family Apartment and a Loft Bed Apartment. A Superior Japanese Apartment with tatami sleeps six. If you're traveling with another couple or the grandparents, the Connecting Family Apartment is two rooms with separate entrances and 76 square meters between them.
Direct trains from here go to Tsukiji, Akihabara, Shibuya and Maihama.
MIMARU Tokyo Station East
Hatchobori
The biggest menu of the chain: thirteen room types, from two adults up to eight adults with up to four kids aged six and under. There are Japanese style suites with tatami and in-room washer-dryers, bunk bed family apartments, connecting rooms and accessible rooms.
It's two minutes on foot to Hatchobori Station, and Tokyo Station is nearby. No Pokémon room here, though.
Ikebukuro, Shinjuku and Akasaka
The west and north sides of the city, for people who want department stores, a big station or a quieter street.
MIMARU Tokyo Ikebukuro
Ikebukuro
Nine room types, so there's usually a size that fits. The Pokémon Room has loft beds and futon seating. There's a One-Bedroom Japanese Apartment with tatami, a Two-Bedroom Family Suite at 58 square meters with an in-room washer-dryer, and High Floor and City View Two-Bedroom Suites. A Connecting One-Bedroom is 78 square meters, and there's an Accessible One-Bedroom Apartment for wheelchair users.
Department stores, ramen and anime and manga shops are all around, which gets teenagers out the door on their own.
MIMARU Tokyo Shinjuku West
Shinjuku
The one for a Shinjuku base. A bunk bed Family Apartment at 40 square meters, a tatami room at 42, a Deluxe Japanese Apartment at 60 and a Superior one-bedroom for six at 58. It's a ten-minute walk from the south exit of Shinjuku Station, with convenience stores and supermarkets nearby for the kitchen.
Meiji Jingu and Shibuya are close, and Haneda is an hour away by train or monorail. Cribs here come with age restrictions.
MIMARU Tokyo Akasaka
Akasaka
The quiet one, in a residential area. The high floor city view apartments are the draw, along with an open air rooftop balcony with a 360 degree view that takes in Tokyo Tower and Roppongi Hills. There's a Japanese apartment with tatami, a 40 square meter sofa bed apartment, and a connecting Japanese apartment at 80 square meters for up to eight adults and four kids.
Laundry is coin laundry in the building.
How the beds are counted
MIMARU lists capacity as adults plus kids, so a room might say four adults and two children. That's how many people the room is set up for. A bunk bed room is built with kids in mind.
Before you go
Cribs and bed guards can be borrowed at every MIMARU. Luggage can be sent ahead through Japan Post or a delivery service from every hotel, which makes the train from the airport a lot less stressful. Getting in is covered in getting from the airport into Tokyo, and the wider list of places to sleep is in the best family hotels in Tokyo.
Questions
Which MIMARU hotels have a Pokémon room?
Five in Tokyo: Kinshicho, Ginza East, Hatchobori, Ikebukuro and Ueno East. Kinshicho and Ginza East each use around 100 Pokémon designs, and the Ikebukuro room has loft beds and futon seating.
Which MIMARU has the ninja room?
MIMARU Tokyo Ueno Okachimachi. The Ninja Room is 75 square meters and sleeps up to eight, with shuriken and kunai replicas on the walls and ninja costumes to rent.
How many people fit in a MIMARU room?
Anywhere from four to about ten, depending on the room. Standard apartments are set up for four adults and two kids, the bigger suites go to eight, and Ueno Inaricho rents a whole floor of three connected rooms for up to twelve adults and six kids.
Does MIMARU have cribs?
Yes, cribs and bed guards can be borrowed at every hotel when booked ahead. Shinjuku West has age restrictions, Ueno North has limited availability and Okachimachi lends them on request.
Can you do laundry at MIMARU?
Every hotel has coin laundry. A washer-dryer in the room is only in some rooms: every room at Suites Asakusa, the two-bedroom suites at Ikebukuro and the premium rooms at Tokyo Station East. Asakusa Station has coin laundry only.
Can you send luggage ahead to a MIMARU?
Yes. Every hotel can receive luggage sent by Japan Post or another delivery provider, so you can ship bags from the airport or your last hotel and arrive with just a day pack.
Which MIMARU is best for a big group?
Ueno Inaricho, if you can fill a floor. For one big room instead of three, look at the Ninja Room at Okachimachi, the Deluxe Two-Bedroom Suite at Asakusa Station or the connecting Japanese apartment at Akasaka.
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