Overall, the two are within a point of each other.
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi leads on wellness (+1.5), service (+1) and dining (+0.5); Four Seasons Hotel George V on rooms & design (+1) and location (+0.5).
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Fat Legend, 18 out of 20. Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi
Fat Favorite, 17.5 out of 20. Four Seasons Hotel George V, ParisTokyo, Japan · Four Seasons
The pool and onsen looking over the skyline are a recurring highlight.
A 190-room Four Seasons on the top floors of an Otemachi tower, facing the Imperial Palace and Tokyo Station.
Read the full verdictParis, France · Four Seasons
Steps from Avenue Montaigne and the Champs-Elysees, with several guests saying they walked to everything they needed rather than taking a single taxi.
A Four Seasons hotel in central Paris with renovated rooms, an indoor pool, spa, and multiple dining venues.
Read the full verdictOut of 20. The bars start at 10, so half a point still shows.
Overall +0.5
Overall: Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi 18 out of 20, Four Seasons Hotel George V 17.5 out of 20.Service +1 Why
Service: Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi 19 out of 20, Four Seasons Hotel George V 18 out of 20.Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi: Guests describe front desk staff by name arranging surprise cakes, doctors, and window messages, with check-in often handled in the room itself.
Rooms & Design +1 Why
Rooms & Design: Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi 17.5 out of 20, Four Seasons Hotel George V 18.5 out of 20.Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi: Rooms run large for Tokyo with floor-to-ceiling windows over the Imperial Palace, though a few call the decor more minimalist and cooler than other Four Seasons.
Location +0.5 Why
Location: Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi 18 out of 20, Four Seasons Hotel George V 18.5 out of 20.Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi: Steps from Tokyo Station and multiple subway lines, opposite the Imperial Palace gardens, though a couple of guests found it removed from Ginza’s buzz.
Four Seasons Hotel George V: Steps from Avenue Montaigne and the Champs-Elysees, with several guests saying they walked to everything they needed rather than taking a single taxi.
Dining +0.5
Dining: Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi 18 out of 20, Four Seasons Hotel George V 17.5 out of 20.Wellness +1.5 Why
Wellness: Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi 18 out of 20, Four Seasons Hotel George V 16.5 out of 20.Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi: The pool and onsen looking over the skyline are a recurring highlight, though one guest found the spa’s steel tub and rules too clinical for comfort.
Four Seasons Hotel George V: The gym and indoor pool get a couple of strong specific mentions but the spa itself barely comes up, so this is the thinnest evidence of the five categories.
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A room here runs you well over $1,000 a night and what you actually get for it is service that keeps surprising people who've stayed at a dozen Four Seasons before. Guests get escorted to the 39th-floor lobby and checked in without ever standing at a desk, and the stories pile up: a front desk agent arranging an English-speaking doctor and off-menu chicken broth for a guest with food poisoning, a concierge team coordinating an entire week of reservations over WhatsApp before the flight even landed. The breakfast gets called the best in Tokyo often enough that it's worth building a morning around, and Virtu, the bar off the lobby, has a following of its own.
Where it gets more mixed: the rooms lean minimalist rather than warm, which a few guests flag as un-Four-Seasons, and the lobby sitting six floors up means two separate elevators to reach a room, which reads as fussy after a long flight. One guest found the spa's steel-lined pool and rules-heavy vibe more clinical than relaxing. And the address, ten minutes from Tokyo Station rather than in the middle of Ginza or Shibuya, splits opinion: some love the quiet, some call it inconvenient for transit despite the subway lines underneath the building. Janu Tokyo, the newer arrival at Azabudai Hills, comes up constantly as the alternative — better suites, weaker views, no age minimum at this pool versus most others.
Book it if you want a Tokyo base that treats you like a regular by day two and don't need to be in the middle of Shibuya's noise. The views of the Imperial Palace and, on clear days, Mount Fuji, are hard to argue with at any price.
The George V costs what a palace hotel in the eighth costs, and for that money most people who actually check in get exactly what they came for: a newly renovated room with a Dyson dryer and blackout shades good enough to fix your jet lag, flower arrangements that turn up in almost every account without being asked about, and a restaurant floor (Le Cinq, L'Orangerie, the bar) that people describe as a destination rather than something you wander into because you're already staying there. The renovated rooms are the headline right now: guests who'd stayed before the refit say the difference is real, not cosmetic.
The staff stories from actual guests are specific in a way that's hard to manufacture: a family with young jet-lagged kids got handed a spare room before they had to ask, a full breakfast room got solved by opening L'Orangerie instead of making people wait, a regular has a standing hairdresser she won't see anyone else. That's the level this hotel is operating at for people who are checked in. Where it gets complicated is anyone treating the George V as a drop-in for tea or a restaurant booking without a room key – there's a real thread of visitors, not just one, describing a cold or condescending welcome at the door, and a separate, messier story about a guest whose negative review of that experience got pulled from a review site after the hotel disputed it. Neither of those things describes what happens once you're actually a guest, but they're worth knowing before you book a table rather than a room.
If you're staying, book it for the location and the renovated rooms, and go into dinner at Le Cinq expecting it to earn its reputation rather than coast on it.
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Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi: The pool and onsen looking over the skyline are a recurring highlight. Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris: Steps from Avenue Montaigne and the Champs-Elysees, with several guests saying they walked to everything they needed rather than taking a single taxi.
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi is ahead on the spa. Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris is ahead on the rooms. Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi adds Wellness, Design and Japanese Design; Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris adds Heritage, Architecture, Romantic and Parisian. Both are tagged Urban and Culinary.
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi leads on this. Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi: The pool and onsen looking over the skyline are a recurring highlight, though one guest found the spa’s steel tub and rules too clinical for comfort. Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris: The gym and indoor pool get a couple of strong specific mentions but the spa itself barely comes up, so this is the thinnest evidence of the five categories.
Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris leads on this. Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi: Steps from Tokyo Station and multiple subway lines, opposite the Imperial Palace gardens, though a couple of guests found it removed from Ginza’s buzz. Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris: Steps from Avenue Montaigne and the Champs-Elysees, with several guests saying they walked to everything they needed rather than taking a single taxi.
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi is in Tokyo, Japan; Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris is in Paris, France.
Neither: Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi and Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris, both hold Three Michelin Keys in the Michelin Guide’s 2026 hotel selection. The Keys come from the guide’s own anonymous inspections and are separate from the Fat Score.
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