Travel | Longform May 3, 2021
New frontier: The future of tourism in Japan
by Alex K.T. Martin
Japan’s travel industry has introduced new ways of attracting visitors amid COVID-19, but will any of these initiatives stick?
Business / Corporate Apr 5, 2021
Japanese luxury resort operator Hoshino eyes U.S. hot spring potential
by Lisa Du, Grace Huang and Stephen Engle
The 107-year-old company famed for retreats in beautiful locales aims to open its first location on the U.S. mainland in the next three to five years.
National / Media | Japan Pulse Sep 12, 2020
Can micro-tourism save Japan's ailing travel industry?
by Kaori Shoji
Excursions to local destinations that are no more than an hour's drive from home lessen the anxiety of taking a short break.
Business / Corporate | Taking the Lead Nov 5, 2017
Yoshiharu Hoshino: Inn innovator's winning formula born from bubble's crash
by Alex K.T. Martin
Yoshiharu Hoshino describes his experience taking over the reins of his century-old family business in 1991 as a "hard landing." The fourth-generation hotelier and chief executive officer of Hoshino Resorts Inc., one of Japan’s largest and most well-known operators of luxury hotels and ryokan (traditional ...
Business / Corporate Oct 5, 2017
Hoshino Resorts, known for luxury, moves into midrange urban market
by Alex K.T. Martin
Hoshino Resorts Inc., known for its luxury hotels and traditional lodgings blending Japanese aesthetics and contemporary design, is making a foray into the urban hotel market with a new brand targeting tourists. Yoshiharu Hoshino, a fourth-generation hotelier and the chief executive officer of the hotel ...
Style & Design Jul 30, 2016
New inn style: Tokyo's first luxury ryokan
by Danielle Demetriou
There are seasonal ikebana arrangements, tatami-mat flooring, kimono-style outfits for guests and a steaming hot onsen spring water bath. So far, so ryokan, the traditional-style Japanese inns that dot the country. Until a screen slides open in one of the guestrooms, and 11th-floor views of ...
Travel Jul 23, 2016
Tokyo hotels invite guests to live in the lap of luxury
by Hiroko Kimura
Two domestic hotel operators are shaking up competition in Tokyo's luxury accommodation market by attempting to make their new properties more inviting for inbound visitors. The first such operator, Hoshino Resorts Inc., has opened a luxury ryokan (traditional Japanese inn) named Hoshinoya Tokyo in the ...
Business / Corporate Jul 12, 2013
CEO sees Hoshino Resorts REIT as his ticket to worldwide expansion
Hoshino Resort Co., which has been operating luxury hotels for 109 years, wants to be as well known as Toyota Motor Corp. internationally, and President Yoshiharu Hoshino said Friday's real estate investment trust debut is a start. "When I walk on the streets of New ...