YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) The Yokohama Municipal Government on Friday ordered budget hotel chain Toyoko Inn Co. to correct violations of the Building Standards Law and a related city ordinance by the end of April.

Specifically, the city ordered Toyoko Inn to reduce the number of guest rooms at two of its eight hotels in the city and to restore mandatory parking facilities for the disabled at two other hotels in Yokohama. It also banned the company from using rooms and facilities built illegally in the city.

The orders follow the revelation last month that the Tokyo-based hotel chain modified their hotels in violation of a city ordinance.

Toyoko Inn Yokohama Nishiguchi and Toyoko Inn Kannai Bandobashi were found to be built exceeding the legally determined ratio of floor area to building lot space in violation of the Building Standards Law. Mandatory parking lots were found removed at the other two hotels.

For the Yokohama Nishiguchi and Kannai Bandobashi hotels, Toyoko Inn illegally increased the number of guest rooms by 31 in total, raising the ratio of floor area to building lot space to 670 percent, up from the legally allowed 500 percent, at one of the two and to 460 percent from 400 percent, at the other, the city officials said.

Toyoko Inn has already told city authorities it will voluntarily prohibit use of the additional rooms built.

On Monday, the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry said 60 of Toyoko Inn's 122 hotels across Japan have been found in violation of laws and local ordinances.

Toyoko Inn made illegal modifications in 79 cases at 60 hotels in 21 prefectures, of which 37 were violations of the Building Standards Law, the ministry said. Of those 37 cases, 27 involved exceeding the legally determined ratio of floor area to building lot space.

There were also 18 violations of a law that requires user-friendly facilities for the disabled.