The Prince Akatoki London

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On a quiet, tree-lined Marylebone street, this Japanese-run hotel greets arrivals with a custom scent of frankincense, bergamot, juniper and turmeric, and furnishes rooms with low beds, timber furniture and hand-painted fusuma panels. Forbes notes the yukata guests keep, kimonos laid out at turndown, and the Malt Lounge, where regulars lock up their own bottles of rare Japanese spirits.