“How many hotels opened in my market in 2026 — and which ones, by name?” To answer that question, MetroEngines Research compiled every lodging property it could confirm as opening in 2026 — 1,433 properties with 36,986 rooms, within the scope of our tracking — into a breakdown by prefecture and property-level lists for six major cities (Tokyo’s 23 wards, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Sapporo). Where our earlier coverage focused on the nationwide macro structure, this article leads with the tables: which properties opened, in which city, and with how many rooms.

1,433 Properties and 36,986 Rooms Opened Nationwide in 2026 — Breakdown by Prefecture

We begin with the national picture. Within the scope tracked by MetroEngines Research, 1,433 lodging properties with 36,986 rooms were confirmed as opening in 2026. However, this total includes many small properties such as vacation rentals, cottages and guesthouses, so the average is only 26 rooms per property. Limiting the count to the scale hotel operators typically treat as competition — properties with 100 or more rooms — yields 124 properties and 24,315 rooms: under 10% of properties, but roughly two-thirds of total rooms. How this gap between property count and room count breaks down by property type is examined in detail in our analysis of 2026 new openings by room count rather than property count.

Ranked by rooms, Osaka Prefecture leads (42 properties, 3,020 rooms), followed by Okinawa (87 properties, 2,902 rooms) and Hokkaido (137 properties, 2,731 rooms). Note that the rankings by property count and room count diverge. Hokkaido has the most openings nationwide at 137, but many are vacation rentals and cottages in the Niseko and Furano areas, so its room total falls short of Osaka’s. Conversely, Saitama had only 10 openings yet ranks high by rooms at 1,233, because urban mid- to large-scale hotels opened there in concentration.

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings, N=1,433 properties) / Table shows the top 20 prefectures by rooms

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings)

New Openings in Six Major Cities — Property Name, Rooms, Type and Opening Month

This is the core of the article. For Tokyo’s 23 wards, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Sapporo, we list the properties confirmed as opening in 2026. The inclusion criteria are 20 or more rooms, and a hotel, ryokan or hostel property type; vacation rentals and small properties with one to a few rooms are excluded. The number of properties and rooms listed is shown in each table caption.

Tokyo 23 Wards — 27 Properties / 1,966 Rooms

In Tokyo’s 23 wards, openings are notably concentrated in Taito Ward (Ueno and Asakusa). The largest is APA Hotel Keisei Ueno Ekimae Minami (アパホテル〈京成上野駅前南〉, 342 rooms), which opened in August and substantially expanded room capacity in the Ueno area. Next is Hotel Metropolitan Oimachi TRACKS (ホテルメトロポリタン大井町トラックス, 285 rooms; opened March 28 per Nippon Hotel’s official announcement), directly connected to JR Oimachi Station, featuring rooms overlooking the Yamanote Line rail depot.

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings)

Nagoya — 4 Properties / 349 Rooms

Limited to properties with 20+ rooms, Nagoya had just 4 openings with 349 rooms — the fewest of the six cities. The content, however, is substantial. Conrad Nagoya (コンラッド名古屋, 170 rooms), occupying the upper floors of the mixed-use tower “The Landmark Nagoya Sakae” in Sakae, marks the debut of Hilton’s top-tier brand in the Chubu region. The official opening date was July 31, 2026, which differs from the OTA listing confirmation date in our database (June 9). In front of Nagoya Station, SONO Moon Nagoya (130 rooms) opened in June, giving the city one new hotel each near the station and in Sakae.

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings)

Osaka — 27 Properties / 2,877 Rooms

Osaka recorded 27 openings with 2,877 rooms, the most of the six cities by both property and room count. By ward, openings are concentrated in Minami (Chuo, Naniwa and Nishinari wards), where properties with 200+ rooms line up: Centara Life Namba Hotel Osaka (センタラライフなんばホテル大阪, 300 rooms), Travelodge Osaka Shinsaibashi (トラベロッジ大阪心斎橋, 302 rooms) and Sugata Hotel Osaka Shinsaibashi, Series by Marriott (スガタ ホテル 大阪心斎橋 シリーズ byマリオット, 256 rooms). In May, City Express by Marriott made its first entry into Asia Pacific (excluding Greater China) with two properties launched simultaneously, in Namba Minami (143 rooms) and Shin-Imamiya (100 rooms) — 243 rooms in total, opened May 7, 2026, per Marriott International’s official announcement.

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings)

Kyoto — 8 Properties / 597 Rooms

Kyoto city as a whole saw 68 openings, but most were machiya townhouses and guesthouses with only a few rooms; limited to 20+ rooms, the count is 8 properties and 597 rooms. The two March openings were emblematic: Imperial Hotel Kyoto (帝国ホテル 京都, 55 rooms), which preserves and repurposes the Yasaka Kaikan building in Gion, is the Imperial Hotel’s first new opening in 30 years, since Osaka in 1996; Capella Kyoto (カペラ京都, 89 rooms) also opened the same month. Toward year-end, Courtyard by Marriott Kyoto Station (270 rooms), scheduled to open on November 16, will be the largest property in the city (opening date and room count cross-checked against JR Central’s official announcement).

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings)

Fukuoka — 11 Properties / 1,072 Rooms

Fukuoka recorded 11 openings with 1,072 rooms, split between Tenjin (Chuo Ward) and the Hakata Station area (Hakata Ward). THE KNOT FUKUOKA Tenjin (206 rooms) and BASE LAYER HOTEL Fukuoka (126 rooms) are on the Tenjin side, while KOKO HOTEL Premier Hakata (120 rooms) and Bouncy by Rihga Fukuoka Hakata (バウンシー・バイ・リーガ 福岡博多, 117 rooms) are on the Hakata side. In Momochihama, Fukuoka Prince Hotel Momochihama (福岡プリンスホテル ももち浜, 229 rooms) opened in March.

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings)

Sapporo — 7 Properties / 921 Rooms

Sapporo recorded 7 openings with 921 rooms, and every listed property is located in Chuo Ward (Sapporo Station to Susukino). The mainstays are Holiday Inn Express Sapporo Susukino (ホリデイ・イン エクスプレス札幌すすきの, 223 rooms), KOKO HOTEL Sapporo Susukino 2nd (212 rooms) and Regionia by Quintessa Sapporo Ekimae (リージョニアbyクインテッサ 札幌駅前, 175 rooms), which together deepened the city center’s accommodation capacity. According to Hyatt Hotels Japan, Hyatt Centric Sapporo (216 rooms) has also been announced for opening in 2026 (Source: Hyatt Hotels Japan, “Press Materials, April 2026”). Because our database registers a property only once its OTA listing is confirmed, properties not yet listed are not included in the table above.

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings)

New Supply Relative to Existing Stock — Fukuoka 2.53%, Nagoya 0.79%

Absolute property and room counts alone cannot tell how much new supply actually matters to a given city. The same 1,000 rooms mean something very different in Tokyo’s 23 wards, with about 250,000 existing rooms, than in Nagoya, with about 45,000. We therefore calculated a “new supply ratio”: rooms opened in 2026 divided by the rooms of existing properties that had opened by the end of 2025. The numerator is all rooms opened in 2026, including vacation rentals, and the denominator is existing stock measured on the same basis.

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings)

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings) / Existing stock covers properties opened by end-2025 with a registered room count

Fukuoka posted the highest ratio at 2.53%, with 1,268 rooms added to an existing 50,179. It is followed by Osaka at 2.14% (2,986 rooms on 139,620 existing) and Sapporo at 2.13% (970 rooms on 45,589 existing). In all three cities new openings are concentrated in limited downtown areas, so in specific submarkets such as Tenjin, Minami and Susukino the supply pressure felt on the ground is greater than the citywide ratio suggests.

Tokyo’s 23 wards (0.88%) and Nagoya (0.79%), by contrast, came in below 1%. Tokyo’s 23 wards rank near the top in absolute terms with 2,189 new rooms, but the base of 249,871 existing rooms is an order of magnitude larger, so the ratio is moderate. Even so, supply is unevenly distributed across the wards; our Tokyo 23 Wards Hotel Supply Pressure 2026 analysis breaks down where supply is concentrated relative to each ward’s existing stock. Nagoya is similar: in 2026, the pace of new openings was restrained relative to the size of its existing stock. It is worth adding, however, that Nagoya gained a high-end entrant in Conrad Nagoya, and a structural shift is under way in the upper price tier that room-count ratios alone cannot capture. Kyoto sits in the middle at 1.02%, but its new supply is heavily skewed toward properties with only a few rooms, and just one property with 100+ rooms (Courtyard by Marriott Kyoto Station) opens during the entire year.

18 Properties with 100+ Rooms Scheduled to Open from September 2026 — 3,075 Rooms Still to Come

Nearly four months of 2026 still remain. Properties with 100+ rooms whose opening dates are set on or after September 6 total 18 properties and 3,075 rooms — meaning roughly 13% of the year’s 24,315 rooms in 100+ room properties is still to open in the final stretch of the second half.

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings; properties with 100+ rooms with opening dates on or after September 6, 2026, as of that date)

The lineup is weighted toward business hotels in regional core cities and suburbs. Openings of 100+ rooms outside the major metropolitan areas include Tabino Hotel Aomori Rokkasho (210 rooms) in Rokkasho, Aomori; Sotetsu Fresa Inn Kitakami Ekimae (167 rooms) in Kitakami, Iwate; and Smile Hotel Premium Tottori (119 rooms) in Tottori City. Only two fall within the six major cities: Courtyard by Marriott Kyoto Station (270 rooms) on November 16 and Solaria Nishitetsu Hotel Osaka Hommachi (202 rooms) on December 17.

It is also worth reviewing the monthly trend of openings. The chart below shows 2026 openings by month (bars) and rooms (line).

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings)

Openings are concentrated in the first half of the year — 241 in January, 209 in April and 198 in March — and drop to the 10–20 range per month from September onward (21 in September, 22 in October, 9 in November, 13 in December). This declining curve, however, should not be read as “supply stops from autumn.” The reason is explained in the next section.

How to Read the Data — Three Points to Keep in Mind About “Confirmed Listing” Counts

First, the figures in this article cover the scope tracked by MetroEngines Research and are not a full census. Our database registers properties whose listings have been confirmed on OTAs, so ryokan, minshuku and simple lodging facilities not listed on OTAs, as well as membership-only and direct-sales-only properties, are not included. Please read the data not as “a complete list of properties that opened in 2026” but as “a list within the range confirmed through OTA listings.”

Second, the most recent and future months are structurally undercounted. OTA listings begin a few months before opening, so the further out a property’s opening date, the less likely its listing has appeared yet. Our data likewise show that only a portion of properties are listed on OTAs before opening, and a considerable number are first confirmed as listed several months after opening. The drop in September–December openings in the chart above therefore reflects observation lead time, not a thinning of supply, and the figures will rise over time. As with Hyatt Centric Sapporo mentioned earlier, several properties officially announced as 2026 openings do not yet appear in our data.

Third, opening dates are based on when an OTA listing was confirmed and may differ from officially announced opening dates. In this article, for example, Conrad Nagoya’s official opening was July 31, while our listing confirmation was June 9 — a gap of about a month and a half. Properties newly listed following a rebrand or a change in operating structure are also registered as 2026 openings under the same mechanism. When opening dates must be treated precisely at the property level, always check the operator’s official announcement. For major properties in this article, we cross-checked against official announcements and list the URLs in the references.

The size of this lead time can be confirmed by comparing the composition with previous years. September–December accounted for 35.9% of annual openings in 2024 and 29.5% in 2025, years for which the counts are complete. For 2026, the same period currently stands at just 4.5%.

Source: MetroEngines Research & Consulting (based on confirmed OTA listings; share calculated against the sum of monthly openings for each year)

Applying the 2024 and 2025 shares directly would bring 2026’s September–December openings to roughly 570–770 properties. This is merely a mechanical conversion using the past two years’ seasonal composition, not a supply forecast. In practice, it is safest to treat September–December figures as “the lower bound observable at this point” and to re-pull the data every quarter.

To project supply for 2027 and beyond, OTA listing-based data must be supplemented with planning data based on building permit applications. Permit applications are typically filed one to two years before opening, so this series, too, tends to undercount the further into the future it looks. It is practical to treat both series as “the lower bound observable at this point.” For supply pressure relative to existing stock down to the municipal level, see also our New Hotel Supply Pressure Ranking 2026–2027.

Summary

Within the scope tracked by MetroEngines Research, 2026 new openings totaled 1,433 properties and 36,986 rooms nationwide, or 124 properties and 24,315 rooms when limited to 100+ rooms. At the city level, Osaka was the deepest with 27 properties and 2,877 rooms (20+ rooms, hotel types), while Fukuoka and Sapporo absorbed new supply equal to over 2% of existing stock. Tokyo’s 23 wards and Nagoya stayed below 1%, a relatively moderate pace of supply.

City-level ratios, however, smooth over what is felt at the submarket level. Fukuoka’s 2.53% is concentrated almost entirely in two areas, Tenjin and around Hakata Station, and Osaka’s 2,877 rooms are skewed toward Minami. To gauge your own hotel’s competitive environment, it is more practical to drill down past the city average to a list of properties within walking distance. We hope the tables in this article serve as a first resource for that purpose.

And 2026 is not over yet. As of September 6, 18 properties with 3,075 rooms (100+ rooms) are still scheduled to open, and given the lead time of OTA listings, these figures will continue to grow through year-end.

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