In 1606 Suminokura Ryōi, a Kyoto merchant grown rich on trade with what is now Vietnam, opened the Hozu River to boats, and went on to build canals and waterways west of the city. Upstream of Togetsukyo Bridge, where the same river runs through the gorge of Arashiyama as the Oi, Discover Japan reports the … Read more
Park Hyatt Suzhou stands on the east shore of Jinji Lake, in Suzhou Industrial Park, looking across the water at W Suzhou. Its client, the Suzhou group Gold Mantis Enterprise, asked Kohn Pedersen Fox for what the architect Josh Chaiken called “a contemporary estate organized around intimate gardens”. KPF’s managing principal, Inkai Mu, described the … Read more
The Hoshino family, silk merchants, struck hot water at the foot of Mount Asama after years of drilling, and opened the Hoshino Onsen ryokan in 1914; OKYTO has told that story in its article on the Hoshino Resorts’ Karuizawa origins. In 2005 the company rebuilt the old inn, on the same land, as the first … Read more
In April 2016 Kanazawa City invited proposals for an international brand hotel on city-owned land at the west exit of the station, beside the plaza where the Shinkansen arrives, and in July Orix won the right to negotiate. Toshinari Fukaya, head of Orix’s real-estate business, said the aim was to bring affluent visitors from around … Read more
King Norodom Sihanouk wanted a place near Angkor where he could lodge his family and visiting dignitaries, and in 1962 the French architect Laurent Mondet began the Villa Princière for him on the road from Siem Reap to the temples. Completed in 1963, it was a low, modern building around a curving pool and lawn, … Read more
A Bill Bensley design: a cliff-top resort at Seogwipo, on the quiet south coast of Jeju, connected to Route 7 of the Olle trail.
A resort of 71 pool pavilions and villas on Emerald Bay, a cove on the south-west coast of Phuket, where Rosewood’s Asaya wellness concept began.
The 1980 harbourfront hotel in Kowloon, redesigned by Chi Wing Lo and officially reopened under its original name in November 2023 with 497 rooms.
The smaller and younger of Mandarin Oriental’s two hotels in Central, opened in 2005 and reopened on 1 June 2026 after a redesign by Joyce Wang.
A resort of about 1,400 rooms on the Cotai Strip in Macau, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox as a stack of gold, silver and bronze glass boxes.