Connecting rooms are two hotel rooms with a door between them. Here is how Tokyo hotels offer them, and how a family can stay together in one apartment or house instead.
Connecting rooms are two hotel rooms with a door between them, so your family can go from one room to the other without using the corridor. In Tokyo, some hotels sell connecting rooms as a room type. At others, they are a request that depends on availability. Some hotels have no connecting rooms at all.
Families look for connecting rooms when one room is not enough. Some Tokyo hotels take up to three adults in a room and add no extra beds, so a larger family books two rooms or more.
How hotels offer them
As a room type. Some hotels sell two connecting rooms as one room type, with a bathroom in each room. If you need connecting rooms, look for a room type or a plan that includes them.
On request. At other hotels, you book two rooms and ask for them to connect. The hotel may not be able to do this, depending on availability.
Not offered. Some hotels have no connecting rooms. They may offer to put your rooms next door or on the same floor instead, on request and depending on availability.
Hotels also set their own rules for children's ages and bed sharing, and these differ from hotel to hotel. Check them for each room you book.
There is another way to keep a family together: one apartment or one house for the whole party. Each ACOE booking is one apartment or one house.
With two hotel rooms, a family can sleep in two groups, for example parents in one room and children in the other. In a home, the bedrooms do this job. Each home below has two bedrooms or more.
In each home below, the bedrooms, the kitchen and the bathroom or bathrooms are all part of the one apartment or house, and no other guests stay in it. Morishita Penthouse has a kitchenette rather than a full kitchen.
Kaminarimon Asakusa, Hatsudai, Nakano-Sakaue, Okubo and Fuyu Hatsudai are houses, and each house also has its own front door.
The homes below are in order of bedrooms, most first.
Two connecting hotel rooms can come with a bathroom in each room. Some of the homes above have 2 showers and 2 toilets, including Kaminarimon Asakusa, Hatsudai, Nakano-Sakaue, Okubo, Higashi-Shinjuku and Morishita Penthouse. Azabu-Juban I has 1 bathroom and 1 toilet, and Fuyu Hatsudai has 1 shower room and 1 toilet.
Some of our homes have fewer bedrooms. For example, Morishita 3F, Asakusa, Azabu-Juban II and ACOE HOTEL AZABU have one bedroom, and some of the beds are in the living area. Flat Shinjuku has one room for sleeping and living, plus a separate kitchen. You can find them by party size below.
Will a Tokyo hotel confirm connecting rooms when I book?
It depends on the hotel. Some sell connecting rooms as a room type or a plan. At others, they are a request that depends on availability. Ask the hotel how it handles them before you book.
What is the difference between connecting rooms and rooms next door?
Connecting rooms have a door between them, so you can go from one room to the other inside. Rooms that are only next door, or on the same floor, have no door between them, so you use the corridor.
Can connecting rooms take a family of six?
At some Tokyo hotels, yes. Some hotels sell two connecting rooms for up to six guests, with a bathroom in each room. Check how many guests the hotel allows in each room before you book.
Does ACOE have connecting rooms?
No. Each ACOE booking is one apartment or one house, and everyone in your party sleeps inside it. So there is no connecting door to ask for.
Find the page for your party size:
Family of 4: homes that take four guests.
Family of 5: homes that take five.
Family of 6: homes that take six.
Family of 7: homes that take seven.
Large groups: homes that take eight, nine or ten.
To see every home, or to take our 3-question quiz, go to Explore Homes.
Not sure which home suits your family? Email us at office@acoe.jp and tell us about your group.
