The PuXuan Hotel and Spa
A 116-room hotel inside Ole Scheeren’s Guardian Art Center, within walking distance of the Forbidden City.
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Park Hyatt Jakarta
Indonesia’s first Park Hyatt: 220 large rooms at the top of a tower in leafy Menteng, with interiors drawn from the crafts of the archipelago.
1 Hotel Tokyo
A planted, timber-lined hotel on floors 38 to 43 of Akasaka Trust Tower, with a Bamford spa and views of the Imperial Palace gardens.
Trunk(Hotel) Yoyogi Park
Twenty-five rooms with balconies facing the trees of Yoyogi Park, a rooftop pool and the cafés of Tomigaya at the door.
The Peninsula Tokyo
The triangular plot where Hibiya-dori meets Harumi-dori was once part of an Edo-period inlet, and after the war the occupation authorities used it as a car park. In 1948 the film studio Nikkatsu acquired it, and in 1952 it opened the Nikkatsu International Building, whose sixth to ninth floors held a hotel advertised as the … Read more
Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo
Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo, the group’s first hotel in Japan, opened on 2 December 2005 at the top of the Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower. Next door stands the Mitsui Main Building, designed by Trowbridge & Livingston of New York and built between 1926 and 1929, after the Great Kanto Earthquake had damaged its Meiji predecessor. In 1998 … Read more
The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo
The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo occupies the top nine floors of Midtown Tower, beginning on the 45th. Below it lies Tokyo Midtown, which the Mitsui Fudosan group built on 6.9 hectares that had been the headquarters of the Defense Agency. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, as master architect, gathered the floor area into one quadrant of the site … Read more
Palace Hotel Tokyo
The plot at 1-1-1 Marunouchi first held the office of the Imperial Household’s forestry bureau. In 1947, on the orders of the occupation authorities, the building was turned into the Hotel Teito, a state-run hotel for foreign buyers. The state sold it in 1959; a new company, Palace Hotel, was incorporated in February 1960, and … Read more
The Okura Tokyo
When Hotel Okura closed its main building in August 2015, most of the protest was about one room. The lobby Yoshiro Taniguchi and Hideo Kosaka had designed for the 1962 opening had become a touchstone of Japanese modernism: an online petition asked for the building to be saved, Bottega Veneta’s creative director Tomas Maier ran … Read more
The Tokyo EDITION, Toranomon
Mori Trust bought the site of the Toranomon Pastoral Hotel in January 2008, and in October 2016 it began building Tokyo World Gate there, around the Kamiyacho Trust Tower: 38 storeys and about 180 metres, designed and built by Yasui Architects & Engineers with Shimizu, with the Fukiro Inari Shrine at its foot and some … Read more