One of Japan's — if not the world's — most iconic hotels, and a member of the select luxury hotel collection, The Leading Hotels of the World, the venerable Hotel Okura Tokyo will from September 2015 embark on a renovation of its main building with completion of the new facilities scheduled for spring 2019.
"There has been such an outpouring of emotion from our customers about the renovation," said hotel Managing Director and General Manager Akira Nishimura, recounting both the heartfelt comments received and memories shared by regular guests upon hearing the news of the main building's temporary cessation.
An extraordinary combination of modernist architecture and Japanese aesthetics, courtesy of a team led by architect Yoshiro Taniguchi, who also created Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art and the Crown Prince's Palace, Hotel Okura Tokyo occupies a distinguished position among the capital's hotels.