TIAD, Autograph Collection stands in Sakae, a one-minute walk from Yabacho Station, not out by Nagoya Station. It opened in July 2023 with 150 guest rooms, every one of them over 50 sq m, plus a sixth-floor wellness zone built around an indoor infinity pool. I held my wedding here and stayed two nights.
Last updated: August 2026 | Author: Yuu (Nagoya-born, 35-year resident, married at this hotel)
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What Is TIAD, and Why Does It Feel Different?
TIAD, Autograph Collection is a 150-room hotel in Sakae that opened on 1 July 2023. It was built from the ground up as a hotel: 14 floors above ground, 59.91 m tall, with a total floor area of 21,561.22 sq m. Every guest room is over 50 sq m.
That last number is the whole point of the building. Most Japanese city hotels, including expensive ones, put their floor area into the number of rooms. TIAD did the opposite, and the floor plan never lets you forget it. According to the hotel’s opening press release, the 150 rooms are split across three categories and 14 room types, and the smallest of them still clears 50 sq m.
The first thing I want to write about TIAD is not the rooms or the food, though. It is the smell.
“The moment you step inside, the scent tells you what kind of building you are in. Before I had seen a single room, before anyone had said a word to me, the fragrance in the lobby had already made the argument. It is the thing I remember first about walking in.”
— Yuu, japanesefestival.net
My own relationship with this hotel is not that of a passing guest. I held my wedding here, and I stayed two nights. I am not going to describe the ceremony — that is my family’s day, not content — but it does mean I saw the building at close range over a stretch of hours rather than in a single overnight, and that colors everything below.
TIAD is operated by Nihon Ceremony Co., Ltd., and it was the first project certified under the luxury-hotel siting subsidy that Aichi Prefecture and the City of Nagoya established in 2020. That is a dry piece of administrative history, but it explains something you feel in the lobby: this building exists because the city wanted a hotel of this class in the middle of Sakae, and somebody was paid to make sure it happened there rather than next to the Shinkansen tracks.
Source: TIAD official press release, 1 July 2023 and TIAD company profile (operating company), accessed August 2026.
Where Exactly Is TIAD, and How Far Is Nagoya Station?
TIAD is at 5-15-19 Sakae (栄), Naka-ku, in central Nagoya, beside Hisaya Odori Park (久屋大通公園). It is a one-minute walk from Exit 1 of Yabacho Station (矢場町駅) on the Meijo subway line (名城線). From Nagoya Station the hotel gives 15 minutes by subway or 12 minutes by taxi.
I want to be blunt about this because it is an easy thing to get wrong when you are booking a Nagoya hotel from abroad: TIAD is not in the Nagoya Station area. If your plan is to roll a suitcase off the Shinkansen and into a lobby, this is the wrong hotel and you want our hotels near Nagoya Station guide instead.
| From | By train or bus | By taxi |
|---|---|---|
| Yabacho Station (Meijo Line) | 1 minute on foot from Exit 1 | — |
| Nagoya Station | About 15 minutes: Higashiyama Line to Sakae, change to the Meijo Line for Yabacho | 12 minutes |
| Chubu Centrair International Airport | About 50 minutes: Meitetsu Airport Line to Kanayama, change to the Meijo Line for Yabacho | 45 minutes |
| Nagoya Airfield (Komaki) | About 40 minutes: Aoi Kotsu direct bus, get off at Sakae, change to the Meijo Line | 30 minutes |
| By car | 5 minutes from the Shirakawa exit of the Nagoya Expressway | — |
The subway ride from Nagoya Station involves one change at Sakae, which sounds fussy on paper and takes about a quarter of an hour in practice. If you have never used the Nagoya subway before, our getting around Nagoya guide explains the two lines you actually need.
Source: TIAD official access page, accessed August 2026.
How Big Are the Rooms at TIAD, Really?
Every room is over 50 sq m, so the honest answer is that there is no bad category. The entry-level Euphoria Deluxe Twin Park View runs 51 to 54 sq m. From there the line-up climbs through Euphoria Premier rooms of 52 to 72 sq m to a 115 sq m Presidential Suite on the 14th floor.
For context, the standard room in a Japanese business hotel is a small fraction of that. A 51 sq m entry category is unusual in Japan, and it is the number the whole building is organized around — the hotel leads with it, and the floor plan backs it up.
| Room | Size | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Euphoria Deluxe Twin Park View | 51-54 sq m | The entry category, looking toward the park side |
| Euphoria Premier Twin City View | 55-56 sq m | City-facing twin |
| Euphoria Premier King City View | 60 sq m | City-facing king |
| Euphoria Premier Corner King | 52 sq m | Corner rooms on the 10th floor and above, with butler service |
| Euphoria Premier King Park View with Balcony | 61 sq m | Has an actual balcony |
| Junior Suite | 57 sq m | Butler service |
| Suite | 96 sq m | Butler service |
| Presidential Suite | 115 sq m | Top-floor corner, steam sauna in the bathroom, walk-in closet |
By category, the hotel counts 46 Euphoria Deluxe rooms (50 to 54 sq m), 91 Euphoria Premier rooms (52 to 72 sq m) and 13 suites (57 to 115 sq m). Butler service comes with the three suite types and with the Euphoria Premier Corner King, which the hotel describes as the first butler service in the Nagoya area.
Local tip: if you are choosing between categories purely on size, the jump that actually changes the experience is not Deluxe to Premier — those overlap. It is Premier to Suite, where the 96 sq m Suite and the 115 sq m Presidential Suite stop being large rooms and start being apartments.
Check-in is from 15:00 and check-out is at 12:00, which the hotel states in its accommodation terms rather than on the room pages. Noon check-out is more generous than the 10:00 or 11:00 you get at most Japanese hotels, and on a two-night stay it is worth real money in unhurried mornings.
Source: TIAD official room page, opening press release (category room counts) and accommodation terms, accessed August 2026.
What Do You Get on the Sixth Floor?
The sixth floor is a single wellness zone called Urban Well-Nest, and it is the core of the TIAD experience. It holds an indoor infinity pool of 18.5 m by 3.6 m, a 24-hour fitness gym, a thermal bath area, a wellness lounge and the spa. The entire floor is restricted to guests aged 16 and over.
Overnight guests may use the wellness zone, with only spa treatments charged separately. I am deliberately not calling it free, because the hotel does not publish a price either way on its current wellness page — what it says is that staying here gets you the floor, and that the spa is a separate charge.
“I swam at about two in the afternoon on a Sunday and there was nobody else in the water. Not one other person. You can see out from inside the pool and from the deck beside it, and having that whole room to myself is the single clearest memory I have of the building. I used it after my own wedding, which is not a sentence I expected to write about a hotel pool.”
— Yuu, japanesefestival.net
I should say plainly that an empty pool was my luck on one Sunday afternoon, not a specification. Do not book expecting a private swim.
| Facility | Hours | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Indoor infinity pool | 7:00-22:00 | Heated, 18.5 m by 3.6 m. Poolside morning yoga Sat, Sun and Mon 7:00-8:00 |
| Fitness gym | 24 hours | Cardio and strength machines; the English site gives the floor as 99 sq m |
| Thermal bath area | 7:00-22:00 | For after the pool or the gym |
| Wellness lounge | 7:00-21:00 | Complimentary drinks, smoothies, fruit and snacks |
| TIAD SPA | 10:30-21:00 | Last booking 19:30; charged separately from the rest of the floor |
The morning yoga sessions run on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays from 7:00 to 8:00 on the pool deck, and yoga wear, mats and towels can be rented. The rental list stops there, so pack a swimsuit — the hotel does not say it can lend you one.
The 16-and-over rule is the thing to internalize before you book. It applies to the whole floor, not just the spa, and it is the reason I would not send a family with young children here.
Source: TIAD official wellness page, accessed August 2026.
Is the TIAD Spa Worth Planning Around?
I cannot tell you what a treatment is like, because I could not get one. The spa runs 10:30 to 21:00 with the last booking at 19:30, and slots are reserved online through the Book a Slot button on the official wellness page, which hands you over to TableCheck. Across a two-night stay, nothing was available.
Treatments take place either in a private treatment room or in your own guest room, and the hotel presents it as an in-room spa. The session starts with a counselling conversation based on gogyo-setsu, the Five Elements, before anyone touches you. Guests must be 16 or over, you are asked to arrive 15 minutes early to change and go through that counselling, cancellations are accepted until 20:00 the previous day, and no-shows are charged in full.
Local tip: book the spa on the same day you book the room, not on arrival. This is the one operational thing I got wrong at TIAD, and it is the one thing I would change if I could do the stay again.
I am not quoting treatment prices here. The hotel publishes its spa menu as a PDF that turns out to be a scanned image, so there is no citable text for the prices, and I would rather tell you that than print a number I cannot stand behind. Ask at the time of booking.
Source: TIAD official wellness page and the TableCheck booking page it links to (age limit, arrival time and cancellation terms), accessed August 2026.
Where Do You Eat at TIAD?
There are three places to eat: Table For Tomorrow, the all-day dining room on the 5th floor; SHUHARI, a nine-seat counter for creative Japanese food, also on the 5th; and The Lounge on the 3rd. Table For Tomorrow runs from 7:00 breakfast through to a 22:00 bar close, and it is where breakfast is served.
Something worth knowing before you plan your evenings: in my experience a lot of the people eating at TIAD are not staying at TIAD. The restaurants pull a local crowd of their own, which is a good sign about the food and a warning about how far ahead you should be reserving.
Table For Tomorrow (5th floor)
The concept is a French grill, and the room is laid out with regular tables plus two private rooms, a bar area and a terrace. One point of order, because other write-ups get this wrong: the terrace is on the 5th floor of a 14-floor building, not on the roof.
| Service | Hours | Prices |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 7:00-10:30 (L.O. 10:00) | Not published separately by the hotel |
| Lunch | 11:30-15:00 | Courses at 4,800 / 6,500 / 9,800 yen |
| Tea time | 11:30-15:00 (L.O. 14:30) | Afternoon tea on Sat, Sun and holidays, 14:00 to last entry 16:00, 90 minutes |
| Dinner | 17:30-22:00 | Courses at 9,000 / 14,000 yen; Signature 23,000 yen, reserved by 17:00 three days ahead |
| Bar time | 17:00-22:00 | In the bar area of the same room |
Service charge and consumption tax are included in those course prices, which is not universal in Japanese hotel restaurants and makes the numbers easier to plan around than they look.
The dinner I ate here was in May 2026, on a later visit after the wedding rather than during the stay itself. Menus at a restaurant like this turn over with the season, so treat the following as a record of one night in May and not as what will be on the table when you go.
- Pleasure of a bite
- Hokkaido octopus, ceviche-style salad
- Margatoni, TIAD style
- Main, chosen from grilled local cutlassfish with beurre rouge, or Australian sirloin with summer vegetables and sauce lyonnaise
- Apricot and verbena
- Coffee or tea
It was very good and it was a lot of food, in that order. We ate looking out over the city lights, and I remember the evening clearly.
SHUHARI (5th floor)
Nine seats at a counter, close enough to watch the chef work, serving creative Japanese food. It is closed on Wednesdays and does not admit children under 12. Lunch runs 11:30 to 14:30 and dinner 18:00 to 22:00.
Weekday lunch is the kaiseki course Kanade at 12,000 yen, reserved by the day before. On weekends and holidays there is an unagi kaiseki at 12,000 yen and lighter hitsumabushi and gyu-mabushi sets at 6,800 yen. Dinner courses are Jin at 28,000 yen, Wa at 33,000 yen and Kiwami at 50,000 yen. Service charge and tax are included.
If you want hitsumabushi in a less formal setting first, our Nagoya food guide covers the specialties this city is actually known for.
The Lounge (3rd floor) and breakfast
The Lounge is on the 3rd floor and its published hours are weekdays only, 10:00 to 17:00 with last orders at 16:30. Afternoon tea there runs in two weekday sittings, at 11:30 or 12:00 and at 14:30 or 15:00, two hours each, with a tea list of more than twenty including KUSMI TEA. On weekends the afternoon tea moves upstairs to Table For Tomorrow.
Breakfast is served at Table For Tomorrow or in your room, 7:00 to 10:30 with last orders at 10:00. It is a semi-buffet that includes a la carte dishes, and you choose one of three main dishes. In-room dining runs 7:00 to 22:30.
I am not giving you a breakfast price, because the hotel does not publish one on any of its own pages. If breakfast matters to your budget, confirm whether it is included when you book the room.
Source: TIAD official dining page and room page, accessed August 2026.
What Is It Like to Base Yourself in Sakae Instead?
Staying in Sakae means sleeping in the middle of the shopping and eating district rather than on top of the transport hub. You give up the Shinkansen being a lift ride away. You get a neighborhood that is still awake when you walk out of the lobby at nine in the evening.
Nagoya has an unusual shape for a big Japanese city. The station side is the transport and business end, and Sakae, over to the east, is the side people actually go out in. Hisaya Odori Park runs right past TIAD’s door, and Yabacho Station is one minute from the entrance, which is about as central as a Nagoya address gets.
The way I put it to visiting friends is this: if you are treating Nagoya as a hub — day trips to Takayama, Ise, Kanazawa, Ghibli Park — sleep at the station. If you are treating Nagoya as a city you want to be in, sleep in Sakae. TIAD is very deliberately built for the second kind of trip, and our where to stay in Nagoya guide lays out that same split area by area.
From TIAD you are also within easy reach of the Osu arcades, which are worth an afternoon on their own. See our Osu shopping street guide for what to look for, and our things to do in Nagoya roundup for the rest.
Who Is TIAD For, and Who Should Skip It?
TIAD suits people who care about space, who are marking an occasion, and who want to be in Sakae. It does not suit families with young children, travelers who need the Shinkansen at the door, or anyone trying to keep the room rate down. The 16-and-over rule on the sixth floor decides more of those cases than anything else.
| Book it if | Book elsewhere if |
|---|---|
| Room size is what you actually pay for. A floor of 50 sq m is rare in Japan. | You are traveling with young children. The whole wellness floor is 16 and over, and SHUHARI is 12 and over. |
| You are marking an anniversary or a milestone and want the day to end at the hotel. | You need to be connected to Nagoya Station for early Shinkansen departures. |
| You want to be in Sakae, walking distance from shopping and dinner. | You are optimizing for price. This is not a value play. |
| You are traveling as adults, and a quiet pool and a 24-hour gym are the point. | You want a hotel where the facilities are open to the whole family at any hour. |
For alternatives at a similar level, our luxury hotels in Nagoya guide compares TIAD against the other properties in this bracket, including the ones attached to Nagoya Station.
Practical Information: Address, Parking, Check-In
TIAD is at 5-15-19 Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 460-0008, telephone 052-252-2288. Check-in is from 15:00, check-out is at 12:00, and there are 54 parking spaces with a valet service. As of August 2026 the hotel is open and operating normally, with no closure or renovation notice anywhere on its official site.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Address | 5-15-19 Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 460-0008 |
| Telephone | 052-252-2288 |
| Opened | 1 July 2023 |
| Rooms | 150, all over 50 sq m, in a 14-floor building |
| Check-in / check-out | 15:00 / 12:00 |
| Parking | 54 spaces, valet. Overnight guests 4,500 yen per night, check-in to check-out |
| Parking for diners | 3,000 yen for 2 hours, then 400 yen per 30 minutes. 800 yen waived on restaurant spending of 5,000 yen or more, 1,600 yen on 10,000 yen or more |
| Regular closures | SHUHARI closed Wednesdays. The Lounge publishes weekday hours only |
| Official site | hotel-tiad.com |
Meetings and events are handled in three banquet halls: Park View North and Park View South on the 2nd floor, at 281 sq m and 331 sq m with 4.3 m ceilings, and the Queens Room on the 4th floor, 326 sq m with a 4.2 m ceiling, which has the entire floor to itself. There is also a 68 sq m meeting room that can be divided in two.
Weddings are a separate business from hotel bookings and run on their own site at wedding.hotel-tiad.com, in the hall the hotel calls TIAD HALL. If you are reading this because you are considering the venue rather than a room, that is where to start.
Source: TIAD official access page, banquet page and opening press release (meeting room), accessed August 2026.
Rates and Booking
TIAD does not publish a fixed rate table. Its own accommodation terms say the basic room charge follows the rate table posted on the official website, which is another way of saying prices move daily with the calendar. A service charge of 15 percent of the room rate, plus consumption tax, sits on top.
Because rates move, any number printed in a guide like this one is out of date by the time you read it. Check live dates directly.
Checking a specific date?
This is the part I would not leave until later. What is open moves around here, and the night you want is usually the one someone else also wants.
One planning note that is worth more than any rate comparison: if you want the spa, reserve it in the same sitting in which you reserve the room. Everything else at TIAD can be arranged after you arrive. That cannot.
Source: TIAD accommodation terms, accessed August 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is TIAD close to Nagoya Station?
No. TIAD is in Sakae, on the other side of the city center. It is a one-minute walk from Exit 1 of Yabacho Station on the Meijo subway line, and the hotel gives 15 minutes from Nagoya Station by subway via Sakae, or 12 minutes by taxi.
How small is the smallest room at TIAD?
There is no small room. All 150 rooms are over 50 sq m, and the entry-level Euphoria Deluxe Twin Park View runs 51 to 54 sq m. The largest is the 115 sq m Presidential Suite on the 14th floor.
Can hotel guests use the pool at TIAD?
Yes. Overnight guests may use the Urban Well-Nest wellness zone on the 6th floor, which covers the indoor infinity pool, the fitness gym and the wellness lounge, and only the spa is charged separately. The pool runs 7:00 to 22:00 and is limited to ages 16 and over.
Can you stay at TIAD with children?
Children can stay in the guest rooms, but two facilities carry age limits. The whole 6th-floor wellness zone, pool included, is for ages 16 and over, and the restaurant SHUHARI does not admit children under 12.
Do you need to book the TIAD spa in advance?
Book it as early as you can. The spa runs 10:30 to 21:00 with the last booking at 19:30, and slots are reserved online through the Book a Slot button on the official site. I could not get one during my own two-night stay.
Where is breakfast served at TIAD?
Breakfast is served at Table For Tomorrow on the 5th floor, or in your room, from 7:00 to 10:30 with last orders at 10:00. It is a semi-buffet that includes a la carte dishes, with a choice of one of three main dishes. The hotel does not publish a stand-alone breakfast price.
Can you get married at TIAD?
Yes, and I did. Weddings at TIAD HALL are handled separately from hotel bookings, on the dedicated site wedding.hotel-tiad.com rather than through the hotel booking page.
Does TIAD have parking?
Yes, 54 spaces with a valet parking service. Overnight guests pay 4,500 yen per night, valid from check-in to check-out. Diners pay 3,000 yen for two hours and 400 yen per additional 30 minutes.
About the Author
Yuu was born in Nagoya and has lived here for 35 years. He held his own wedding at TIAD and stayed two nights at the hotel, ate the May 2026 dinner course at Table For Tomorrow on a later visit, swam in the sixth-floor pool on a Sunday afternoon, and failed to get a spa booking. Every price, opening hour and access detail in this article comes from TIAD’s own published pages, checked against the site in August 2026; where the hotel does not publish a figure, this article says so instead of estimating one.
Related Guides
- Luxury Hotels in Nagoya — how TIAD compares with the rest of the city’s top bracket, including the ones attached to Nagoya Station.
- Where to Stay in Nagoya — the station side versus Sakae, explained neighborhood by neighborhood.
- Hotels Near Nagoya Station — the right list if you need the Shinkansen at your door instead.
- Getting Around Nagoya — the two subway lines that cover almost everything a visitor needs.
- Osu Shopping Street Guide — the best afternoon walk within reach of Sakae.
Thinking about a night here?
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