Tag · 5 pieces
Every piece on the journal carrying the aman tag, most recent first.
Aman Kyoto opened on November 1, 2019 on a 32-hectare forest site north of Kinkaku-ji. Designed by Kerry Hill Architects and completed posthumously after Hill's 2018 death, the resort is six years into operation. We ran four nights to read the property at the maturity mark.
Aman Tokyo opened on the 33rd floor of the Otemachi Tower in December 2014 as the brand's first urban property, and it spent the better part of a decade rewriting what a city Aman could mean. Ten years in, with four stays banked in the past eighteen months and a return trip in March 2026 spanning the Deluxe room, the Garden View Suite, and four nights in the 156-square-metre Aman Suite, we deliver the longitudinal verdict — what has aged, what has slipped, what has been refreshed, and whether the property still earns the JPY 250,000 entry rate in a Tokyo market that has materially levelled up around it since Bvlgari, Janu, and a re-positioned Capella entered the conversation.
Aman's New York property opened in August 2022 inside the Crown Building on Fifth Avenue. Three years in, the question is whether the USD 4,500 starting suite rate makes sense for a business traveller in town for two nights of meetings.
Four nights at Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal with the Tiepolo frescoes and Arva under Panfilio weighed against Gritti, Cipriani, Rosewood Bauer.
Janu Tokyo opened on March 13, 2024 as the inaugural property of Aman's new f&b-forward brand. Two years in, we ran four nights across three room categories to test the Aman sibling thesis against the Otemachi original.