Mandarin Oriental The Landmark, Hong Kong
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.
Gastronomy
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
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
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi
Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi opened in October 2002 with 57 rooms, and still has 57. It occupies a few floors of Pacific Century Place, a 31-storey glass tower linked to Tokyo Station by an underground passage, which Pacific Century Group Japan developed and Nikken Sekkei designed. Yabu Pushelberg did the original interiors, billed … Read more
The Peninsula Hong Kong
When The Peninsula opened on Salisbury Road on 11 December 1928, it had 168 rooms in a six-storey building and an unobstructed view across Victoria Harbour to Hong Kong Island. It had been placed for the travellers of its day, beside the quays where the liners docked and the terminus of the railway to Canton, … Read more
Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong
Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong belongs to the International Finance Centre, the development built over Hong Kong Station, the Central terminus of the Airport Railway. Plans for its second phase in 2001 showed a Four Seasons hotel and a Four Seasons Suites tower beside the 88-storey Two IFC, for a consortium that included MTR Corporation, … Read more
Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai
The oldest part of Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai stands on North Suzhou Road, at the north end of the Henan Road Bridge. It was built for the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, founded in February 1912, which drafted China’s first business law and opened the country’s first commercial arbitration office. The site had been the residence … Read more