Jul 10, 2026 – 5.00amAs The Australian Financial Review’s Asia correspondent, I’ve spent the past two years working from hundreds of hotel rooms across the region: from a ryokan in Japan’s matcha tea fields to the towering Kempinski Hotel in electrified Chongqing.Most promise to accommodate business travellers, but few are genuinely designed around the reality of remote work. Palace Hotel Tokyo, which appears less business and more pleasure, turns out to be one of the exceptions – a point I discover in the midst of breaking news.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Jessica SierNorth Asia correspondentJessica Sier is the North Asia correspondent for The Australian Financial Review. She is based in Tokyo, Japan. Jessica has previously written on technology, global capital markets and economics.Fetching latest articles
Where Tokyo’s power brokers check in
Our Asia correspondent checked in to the Palace Hotel for a luxury getaway. Instead, she found herself covering the outbreak of the Iran war.
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