Paris, France

Hotel Hana

Price per night from$416.26

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR396.76), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

L'est is best

Setting

Land of the rising buns

A rare flower blossoming in Paris’ Japanese quarter, Hotel Hana is a Haussmanian residence and wabi-sabi-styled ryokan rolled into one. Interiors are a masterful medley of Belle Époque maximalism and Eastern minimalism, continued by the spa’s kobido massages, restaurant’s fusion dishes and a sake bar, which feel right at home with the hotel’s Little Tokyo neighbours. And while almost every element (down to the bedside pots of wasabi peas) might encourage you to look East, you’ll also want to admire the Sacré-Coeur views from your wrought-iron balcony.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

26, including one suite.

Check–Out

11.30am, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

More details

Rates exclude breakfast, but a Continental spread with pastries from Lalos bakery and additional Hanabi-style dishes are available for €33 (a head).

Also

All floors of the hotel are accessible via the lift, but unfortunately there are no specially-adapted rooms for guests with limited mobility.

Please note

span id="docs-internal-guid-910bd76b-7fff-08ea-d138-2172af3d4e00">Hanabi restaurant is closed on Sundays and only open for lunch on Mondays.

At the hotel

Lounge, charged laundry service, plug adaptors and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, air-conditioning, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, bathrobes, slippers and Diptyque bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Try to bag one of the Deluxe or Prestige rooms with a Haussmanian balcony for living out those Parisian fantasies (you know, bidding the Sacré-Coeur ‘bonjour’ as you take your morning croissant on the terrace). The Apartment takes over the entire seventh étage, and is one of a handful of suites with a freestanding marble tub (bubbles and sensual aromas courtesy of Diptyque).

Poolside

A whimsical, spiralled ladder serves as a stairway to the heavenly indoor pool set in the hotel’s subterranean spa. Dips in its heated saltwaters (featuring a counter-current machine) are a rare treat in the French capital, so it’s worth lingering a while.

Spa

Experts from Parisian wellness brand, Lymfea, are on hand for Japanese-inspired treatments, offering kobido facial massages, reiki, and reflexology sessions scented with green tea and yuzu. The two spa cabins are meditative spaces cocooned in marble, stone and wood, which extend into an equally Zen fitness room.

Packing tips

Embrace the Far Eastern energy with some patterned silk numbers or by adding an obi belt over your outfit.

Also

True to the Japanese meaning behind the hotel’s name (‘hana’ translates to ‘flower’), the floral arrangements are an artful take on ikebana style.

Pet‐friendly

Small, well behaved dogs (and cats) are welcome to stay in any room here for €25 (a night, each pet), and you'll need to let the hotel know ahead of arrival. See more pet-friendly hotels in Paris.

Children

Mini Smiths of all ages are welcome (except in the indoor pool), but not especially catered to. Small families can spread out in the Apartment, which sleeps up to four.

Sustainability efforts

Hotel Hana is part of the Chapter Six collection, which runs various initiatives supporting health through sponsorship of research institutes and foundations, as well as the Margency Children's Hospital of the Red Cross. Back at the hotel, protocols are in place to limit food waste, reduce packaging, and minimise plastic consumption.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Orient yourself towards the open kitchen to watch the talented chefs at work.

Dress Code

No need to go full kimono, but a sophisticated nod to the East wouldn’t go amiss.

Hotel restaurant

French-Japanese fusion restaurant Hanabi bustles with activity from its open kitchen, as chefs prepare fresh fish and pickle vegetables on the tile-clad counter — and yet remains a haven of calm. Chunky layers of green ceramic raku top the tables, metalised murals featuring Japanese flowers adorn the woven papyrus walls, and floral-covered banquettes in shades of jade and blossom-pink set the scene for scampi udon, somen noodle salads, and hojicha tiramisu. The small but refined menu is curated by Shirley Garrier of the Social Food, and dished out by South American chef Roberto Sanchez and his sashimi-slicing team.

Hotel bar

Garrier’s husband and the Social Food co-founder, Mathieu Zouhairi, is behind the bar’s thoughtful sake list, and for stirring Japanese influences through classic cocktails. Settle into one of the dark wooden seats or jacquard silk and velvet booths and sip your way through clever concoctions featuring sakura syrup, black sesame, nashi pear, and yuzu.

Last orders

Breakfast is from 7am to 10.30am, lunch from noon to 2.30pm (Monday to Saturday), and dinner from 7pm to 9.30pm (Tuesday to Saturday). Hanabi is closed on Sundays.

Room service

Dial down for okonomi hot dogs, salmon onigiri, and camembert tempura between noon and 10pm (with limited options between 10pm and 7am).

Location

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Address
Hotel Hana
17 Rue du 4 Septembre
Paris
75002
France

On the edge of Paris’ Japanese quarter in the 2nd arrondissement, Hotel Hana is snuggled between the Opéra Garnier and Palais Brongniart.

Planes

Orly Airport is the closest, a 30-minute drive from the hotel. Charles de Gaulle is an hour away by car, but is the better connected option if you’re travelling from Asia or the Americas. The hotel can help with transfers to and from Orly Airport when requested ahead of time.

Trains

Gare du Nord (for Eurostar arrivals) and Gare de l’Est are both around 15 minutes’ drive from the hotel. Orly Airport is connected to the centre on the metro line 14; you’ll need to change to line three and aim for Station Quatre-Septembre (just down the street from the hotel).

Automobiles

There’s private parking at the hotel for €45 a day; though pottering about the Deuxième on foot tends to be more hassle-free.

Worth getting out of bed for

Paris’ 2nd arrondissement is chock-full of culinary delights, coupled with a strong trading heritage woven through the Sentier (textiles district) and Bourse, France’s former stock exchange housed within Palais Brongniart — which now acts as a lively events and exhibition centre. The Deuxième’s covered passages and historic glass-roofed arcades are made for window shopping, especially the neoclassical Galerie Vivienne (bookmark Librairie Jousseaume for a lengthy visit) and pedestrianised Rue Montorgueil market street (pause here for chic bakeries and artisan chocolatiers). Kenzo opened his first boutique along Passage Choiseul in the Seventies (between partying with fellow designers Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld on nearby Rue Sainte-Anne), with yet more haute boutiques and artsy stores lining Passage des Panoramas and Passage du Grand Cerf to peruse. This often overlooked district is incredibly well positioned for promenading over to more postcard-popular sights; you’re just as close to the cocktail bars and cabarets near the Moulin Rouge as you are to the Louvre’s treasures.

Local restaurants

A short stroll along Rue Sainte-Anne will take you past the city’s celebrated Japanese eateries, where queues begin to form by noon for steaming bowls of ramen, donburi, and yakisoba. Sit at the chef’s counter in bite-sized Michi and chopstick your way through the assortment of sushi; sample the crowd-drawing gyozas at Higuma, and build your own bento box at Juji-Ya. If you can get a table, Michelin-starred Frenchie on Rue de Nil will bring your palette right back to Paris with its inventive five-course tasting menu.

Local cafés

Sugar-free, reservation-only Substance is more coffee tasting venue than café, where connoisseurs come from far and wide to sample the roasts and brews by owner Joachim, Terres de Café’s former head barista. For more of a traditional Parisian experience, Stohrer was founded in 1730 by King Louis XV’s pastry chef and demand for its famed éclairs is still going strong. 

Local bars

The birthplace of the Bloody Mary needs little introduction, and Harry’s New York Bar is just five minutes’ balade from the hotel. Nearby Perruche perches atop the Printemps Haussman department store, where the style set shops then drops by the rooftop conservatory (open June to September) for creative sips and Provençal-inspired snacks.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this Japonisme jewel in the 2nd arrondissement and unpacked their matcha madeleines and flea market finds, a full account of their Far Eastern-infused city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Hotel Hana in Paris…

The Deuxième has long drawn a chopsticks-wielding crowd to its Japanese quarter, and now Hotel Hana is putting some highly persuasive reasons on the table to turn your dinner reservation into an overnight stay. 

Firstly, it’s a feast for the eyes. In-demand Parisian designer, Laura Gonzalez, leant into the Little Tokyo setting (with complementary flourishes from Belle Époque’s Japonisme movement) while dressing the feng-shuied interiors with iroko wood slats, ivory-hued paper walls and floral motifs. French twists come in the form of Haussmanian parquet flooring, custom-designed Pierre Frey rugs, and treats from Diptyque topping the bathrooms’ terracotta marble sinks. 

Secondly, eating out every night simply isn’t an option when the hotel’s restaurant serves slurp-worthy noodles and sake-infused cheesecake. Face-lifting kobido massages and an indoor pool offer additional temptation to leave the City of Lights waiting — even just for a blissful afternoon of sipping herbal tea after a yuzu-scented spa treatment. 

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