Imperial Hotel Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan. Located just south of the Imperial Palace, overlooking Hibiya Park and the Ginza district.

Imperial Hotel TokyoTokyo, Japan

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Address: Imperial Hotel, Tokyo
1-1, Uchisaiwai-cho 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-8558
Japan
Telephone: +81 3 3504 1111
Official website: www.imperialhotel.co.jp
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One of Tokyo’s “three great hotels” (gosanke), alongside the Okura and the New Otani.
French, Japanese and sushi restaurants, and the Art Deco Old Imperial Bar with terracotta from Frank Lloyd Wright’s building.
Swimming pool, saunas, fitness gym, beauty and shiatsu treatments, and a traditional tea house.
Located just south of the Imperial Palace, overlooking Hibiya Park and the Ginza district.

11 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

28 November 1887
Shibusawa Eiichi and Okura Kihachiro apply to found the Tokyo Hotel Co. to host foreign visitors; the Imperial Household Ministry is the largest investor.
November 1890
The 60-room Imperial Hotel opens in a neo-Renaissance building by Yuzuru Watanabe, after drawings by Heinrich Mänz.
January 1891
After the first Diet building burns down, the House of Peers sits in the hotel’s ballroom until 1 March.
16 April 1922
Watanabe’s building is destroyed by fire during the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales; no one is killed.
1923
Frank Lloyd Wright’s new Imperial Hotel, in Mayan Revival style with H- and I-shaped wings, is completed after work begun in 1919.
1 September 1923
Wright’s building withstands the Great Kantō earthquake with light damage, sheltering several embassies and feeding up to 2,500 people twice a day.
25 May 1945
Incendiary bombs gut the south wing and destroy the Peacock Room.
1945 – 1952
The hotel is requisitioned by the Allied occupation forces and run by the U.S. government.
1 April 1952
The hotel is returned to its owners and full repairs begin.
1970
The current main building replaces Wright’s hotel, demolished in the late 1960s.
1983 – 2024
The Imperial Hotel Tower stands alongside the main building, on the site of the 1950s annexes.