ROKU KYOTO, LXR Hotels & Resorts

What the classifiers highlight

Hilton's first LXR outpost in Asia sits on a mountainside outside Kyoto, its 114 rooms holding more than 500 pieces of Japanese art among kyo karakami prints and wooden lattice screens. Forbes rates it five stars and points to Garden Deluxe rooms with private walled courtyards, black-stone soaking tubs, and Tenjin's wall of windows over the onsen pool.