If you’re traveling with four people, this is one of the easier hotels to book around Tokyo Station. The Family Quadruple is 29.2m², which gives you more room to move than a typical Tokyo hotel room, and larger groups can take connecting rooms instead. Worth knowing: those “four beds” are two regular beds plus an extra bed and a sofa bed, not four identical singles.

This is the one I’d look at first if everyone wants their own bed. The Comfort Quadruple has four actual 90cm single beds, and there’s an in-room washer/dryer that matters more than it sounds once you’re a few days into a trip with kids. Four proper beds plus a washer/dryer solves two very real family-travel problems. Connecting rooms are also available for five or six guests.

Good to know: free bed-sharing rules for children depend on age and how you book. Direct bookings currently offer broader conditions than the standard policy.

Tokyo hotel rooms can feel very small once you add children, suitcases and a stroller. The Japanese Junior Suite here helps with that. It’s roughly 44 to 50m², with a tatami area that gives you real floor space to actually spread out, and a larger bathroom than you’d expect this close to Tokyo Station. Smaller families can take a triple room instead.

Not every room here sleeps four. The Japanese Junior Suite is the one to ask for specifically.

For a train-loving child, this can be much more fun than a generic city hotel. Some rooms look directly over the railway lines coming into Tokyo Station, and there’s an N-gauge model railway in the lobby.

For families of four: not every room has the train view, and the four-person setup means booking the right room category specifically. Those selected four-person rooms can run noticeably higher than the standard twins.

This is a good option if your priority is simply making Tokyo Station easy. It’s about a one-minute walk from the Marunouchi North Exit, with underground access the rest of the way. That helps on a rainy day, in summer heat, or with a stroller. Rooms here are mostly twin, and it suits smaller families more naturally than a group of four needing separate beds, since children mostly stay free by sharing the existing bed.

Most rooms here aren’t especially family-oriented, but the Junior Suite is the exception. At 58.8m², with two 140cm-wide beds and its own separate bathroom and toilet, it gives noticeably more breathing room than most hotels around Tokyo Station. Standard rooms, though, are really designed for two.

Worth checking: the four-person option means booking into that higher Junior Suite category specifically, not the standard room type.

If you’re arriving by Shinkansen with tired children and luggage, it’s hard to beat sleeping inside Tokyo Station itself. The hotel also lends out more baby equipment than most: cribs, bed guards, children’s pajamas, diaper bins, baby baths, even strollers.

Before booking: children stay free by sharing the existing bed, not with an extra one, and cribs are only available in rooms of 34m² or larger, excluding the Maisonette rooms.

Palace Hotel isn’t the obvious choice if your main goal is simply to be beside the Shinkansen. But if you want space, quiet and somewhere pleasant to come back to after sightseeing, it’s in a different league from most Tokyo Station hotels. Standard rooms start at 45m², Grand Deluxe rooms are 55m², and suites start at 75m².

It’s expensive, and a standard room won’t solve sleeping for four on its own. Look at the rollaway bed option or connecting rooms if everyone needs a separate bed.