Hilton Takayama Resort ヒルトン高山リゾート 高山希爾頓度假酒店

Hilton Takayama Resort is located at 1134 Echigo-machi, Takayama, Gifu Prefecture. It reopened on September 14, 2026, as a Hilton Hotels & Resorts property, rebranded from Hotel Associa Takayama Resort. The hotel is operated by JR Central Hotels, the land and building are owned by JR Central Real Estate, and the total floor area is about 32,560 sqm.

A free shuttle bus runs from JR Takayama Station in about eight minutes, and Takayama IC on the Chubu Jukan Expressway is about 10 minutes away. The shuttle service was expanded with more departures and larger buses at the rebrand. Hotel guests can have their luggage delivered to the hotel free of charge from iCAFE TAKAYAMA on the 1st floor at the east (Norikura) exit of Takayama Station. There is free parking for 200 cars.

The lobby takes the Takayama Festival as its theme, reinterpreting the colors and forms of the festival floats and handheld fireworks in a contemporary design. The interior design is by Yukio Hashimoto Design Studio.

There are 283 rooms in 10 types, including five suites, centered on 35 sqm Guest Rooms and 46 sqm Deluxe Rooms. The hotel opened with 91 rooms and is adding more as renovation progresses, with all 283 rooms scheduled to be available by spring 2027. Room types include Japanese-style Guest Rooms, Japanese-Western Deluxe Rooms, 70 sqm Japanese and Deluxe Suites, and 90 sqm Premium Suites. Rooms feature accent fabrics with Hida sashiko motifs and Hida furniture used since the hotel first opened, and the suites follow a “Neo Mingei” design concept.

The hot spring, “Tenbo no Yu Onsen Terrace,” offers indoor and outdoor natural hot spring baths with open-air baths and a sauna facing the Northern Alps. The 7th floor of the hot spring building has an infinity bath, rock baths and a footbath corner. The water is a weakly alkaline simple spring. Four private hot spring rooms are available by reservation, and day visitors are accepted.

All four restaurants use local ingredients from Takayama. The dining room Vistas (156 seats) serves buffets and French courses, and the Japanese restaurant Waki (152 seats) serves dishes from the Hida mountains and seafood from Hokuriku and the Sea of Japan, with a bar counter for local sake. Teppanyaki Gaku (14 seats) grills A5-grade Hida beef and other local ingredients in front of guests, and the lounge and bar Scenery (62 seats) is a lounge by day and a bar from 18:00.

A new Executive Lounge on the 4th floor offers check-in and check-out, breakfast, afternoon tea and evening cocktails to guests in Executive Rooms and suites and to Hilton Honors Diamond members. The 1st floor has a 24-hour fitness center, the gift shop “and T” with original sake and curry, a kids’ corner and karaoke rooms, and there is also a 24-hour coin laundry.

Function rooms on the 3rd and 4th floors include Kagura (500 sqm, 200 seated, divisible into three), Houou (280 sqm), Kirin (96 sqm), the Japanese-style Sakura (106 sqm) and a meeting room. Check-in is from 15:00 and check-out is at 12:00. Bathing tax and accommodation tax are charged separately.