Hotel Nikko is an excellent luxury hotel just a 3 minute walk from JR Kanazawa Station’s Kenrokuen Exit, with spacious rooms, courteous staff, and a wide range of dining facilities. This hotel is also the tallest in the Hokuriku region at 30 stories and 130 meters high. Naturally the view from the upper stories is fantastic.
Hotel Nikko Kanazawa occupies a large part of the Porte skyscraper
Guest Rooms
Hotel Nikko has 249 rooms, all on the 17th floor or above. Rooms include double, twin, deluxe double, deluxe twin, suite, and imperial suite categories. The hotel uses room concepts such as NIKKO, Luxe Style, Comfort, and Kanazawa Stylish, with the more luxurious rooms on the upper floors.
Twin Comfort Room at Hotel Nikko Kanazawa
Queen Luxe Room
All rooms have free Wi-Fi and LAN cable internet access. All rooms are also supplied with a TV, a refrigerator, a combined humidifier and air purifier, an electric kettle, tea and coffee, pajamas, slippers, and clothes hangers. All bathrooms are supplied with a full set of towels, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, face soap, bath salt, cotton buds, shaving razors, dental kits, a hair dryer, a hair brush, and bathroom scales.
A waiting area by the 1st floor entrance
Check Rates & Availability
Hotel Nikko Kanazawa
Breakfast & Dining
The Garden House on the hotel’s 2nd floor serves a Western and Japanese-style buffet breakfast every day, and on weekends and holidays the Benkay restaurant on the 6th floor also serves a Japanese style breakfast. Breakfast at both locations is served between 7.00 and 10.00 with last orders at 9.30. The Garden House buffet costs 4,200 yen for adults, 2,100 yen for children, and 1,000 yen for infants, with children under 3 free. Benkay’s Japanese breakfast is priced from 4,200 yen. At busy times The Garden House may open earlier, so guests with early plans should check at reception when they check in.
Altogether Hotel Nikko lists eight dining and drinking options, though opening days and hours vary by venue and date:
Lobby Lounge seating
The 1st floor Lobby Lounge Fountain is a lobby lounge and pastry boutique serving light meals, pastries, coffee and tea.
Open: 11.30-19.00 (Last orders: 18.30)
The 2nd floor Garden House is an all-day dining restaurant which uses local ingredients such as Kaga vegetables and fresh seafood from the Sea of Japan.
Breakfast: 7.00-10.00 (Last orders: 9.30)
Lunch: 11.30-14.00
Snack service: 14.00-17.00 on weekends and holidays
Dinner: from 17.30 (Last orders: 20.30)
The 6th floor Benkay is a Japanese restaurant with sushi and kappo counters, a sukiya style tea house and a traditional Japanese inner garden.
Breakfast (on weekends & holidays only): 7.00-10.00 (Last orders: 09.30)
Lunch: 11.30-14.00
Dinner: 17.30-21.00
Toh-Lee on the 29th floor is a Chinese restaurant with an extensive menu that includes classic dishes such as Peking Duck, Wanton Soup and Bird’s Nest Soup.
Lunch: 11.30-14.00
Dinner: 17.30-21.00
Icho on the 29th floor is a teppanyaki griddle restaurant serving up freshly grilled beef steaks, seafood and vegetables.
Lunch: 11.30-14.00
Dinner: 17.30-21.00
Vol de Nuit is the hotel’s main bar on the 29th floor and is an elegant spot reminiscent of an old-fashioned British clubhouse. The bar is temporarily closed for the time being.
Sky Lounge Le Grand Chariot on the 30th floor is a stylish piano lounge with magnificent city views. The lounge serves wine, champagne, and a variety of light meals. The lounge has a dress code with male guests required to wear jackets.
Lounge: 17.30-23.00
On Fridays, Saturdays & days before holidays the lounge closes at 24.00.
La Plage on the 30th floor is a restaurant serving set courses of European style cuisine. On occasion there is musical entertainment to accompany the meals. This is a sophisticated dining space and male guests are required to wear jackets. Guests under 9 may not use this restaurant.
Lunch: closed
Dinner: 17.30-21.00
The hotel reception on the 1st floor
Services & Facilities
The following items can be borrowed from reception: a trouser press, an iron, a DVD player and a desk lamp.
Art Shop Tsukibae on the 1st floor sells local traditional crafts and is open from 9.00-13.00. It is closed on Tuesdays.
A variety of in-room massages and aromatherapy treatments are available for female guests, but male guests can book only when accompanied by a female guest. This service is available from 10.00-22.30, and same-day reservations should be made through the front desk before 19.00.
Parking is available for guests at 1,500 yen per night from check-in at 15.00 to check-out at 12.00. The basement car park has about 186 spaces.
The entrance to Hotel Nikko
Access
Hotel Nikko is a 3 minute walk from JR Kanazawa Station’s Kenrokuen Exit. In rainy weather, guests can use the underground passage from the station to reach the hotel.
Article and original photos by Michael Lambe. All rights reserved. Last updated 31-May-2026.
