Nicolas Sitter
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What AI searches when asked for hotels in Tokyo

Before answering a hotel question with web search, an AI assistant rewrites it into one or more searches. These are the searches it actually ran for 11 traveller prompts about Tokyo, captured week after week, not autocomplete suggestions.

ChatGPT
199
answers, 1.2 searches each, May 2026 to Nov 2026

Explore by prompt

Percentages are shares of answers. Grok and Gemini were captured on an earlier prompt set, so most current prompts only have ChatGPT.

Best hotels
Luxury
Budget
Families
Couples
Business
Solo
Amenity
Neighbourhood or landmark
Prompt
“best hotels in Tokyo”
Answers captured
17
Searches per answer
1.0
Searched the prompt as written
12%
Captured
4 May 2026 to 2 Nov 2026

The searches ChatGPT ran

Most frequent first. “×3” means the same search appeared in three separate answers.

  1. best hotels Tokyo luxury×4
  2. best hotels in Tokyo×2
  3. best hotels in Tokyo Japan neighborhoods luxury boutique hotels guide 2026×1
  4. best hotels in Tokyo Japan 2026 luxury boutique neighborhoods travel reviews×1
  5. best hotels in Tokyo Japan luxury boutique best neighborhoods 2026×1
  6. best hotels Tokyo luxury Aman Tokyo Park Hyatt Tokyo Mandarin Oriental Tokyo Four Seasons Tokyo×1
  7. best luxury hotels Tokyo 2026×1
  8. best hotels Tokyo luxury 2026 Michelin Forbes Aman Hoshinoya Mandarin Oriental Park Hyatt×1
  9. best hotels in Tokyo luxury hotels Tokyo Shinjuku Ginza Shibuya top rated hotels Tokyo 2026×1
  10. best hotels Tokyo luxury boutique family hotels Tokyo 2026×1
  11. best hotels in Tokyo luxury hotels rankings Tokyo×1
  12. best hotels Tokyo Japan list 2026×1
  13. best hotels Tokyo Japan 2026 reviews×1

Words it added to the prompt

luxury77%202653%japan29%boutique24%neighborhoods18%aman12%hyatt12%mandarin12%oriental12%park12%reviews12%family6%forbes6%four6%ginza6%guide6%hoshinoya6%list6%michelin6%rankings6%

Places and names it added

No capitalised name added in two or more answers.

Hotel topics in what it added

All Tokyo prompts together

Share of answers whose searches added each topic, counting only words that were not already in the prompt.

What a Tokyo hotel page can cover

The topics ChatGPT adds most often here, with what a page can do about each. These are editorial suggestions drawn from the searches, not a measured ranking effect.

  1. A year29% of answers

    Say what is current: this year’s renovations, prices and openings, with dates on the page.

  2. Hotel class or style23% of answers

    State your class and style plainly (five-star, boutique, historic) in text and in schema.

  3. Best / top22% of answers

    The engine is looking for lists. Being on the editorial and booking-site lists matters as much as your own page.

  4. Neighbourhood and location14% of answers

    Name your neighbourhood and what is walkable from it, in words, not only on a map.

  5. Who it is for12% of answers

    Say who the hotel suits (families, couples, business) and why, with specifics.

Which hotels get named? The answers behind these searches are tracked in the AI Hotel Landscape for Tokyo.

How the searches were captured and cleaned, and what is left out: method and limits. ChatGPT data runs to Nov 2026.