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Hotel Kajima no Mori
Karuizawa, Japan · Okura · Core Luxury
A two-story, 50-room Okura hideaway reached down a Japanese-larch lane in highland Karuizawa, Hotel Kajima no Mori sits in a 30,000-square-meter garden beside the golf club it grew from. The site began as a 1956 lodge for golfers, and the hotel opened in 1977 under the Kajima name: the contractor that built the Usui Pass railway through these mountains starting in 1889.
- 50 rooms
- Opened 1977
- Neighborhood: Kajima no Mori
About Hotel Kajima no Mori
- The 1956 Kajima no Mori Lodge served the golf club before the 1977 hotel; two floors, 50 rooms.
- Kajima-gumi began the Usui Pass railway through these mountains in 1889; the name is the contractor's.
- Karuizawa Prince Hotel Ski Area is about 4 km; the garden is 30,000 square metres of highland larch.
History
Hotel Kajima no Mori is a 50-room, two-story resort hotel in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, operated within the Okura Hotels & Resorts group. It opened in 1977, several years after the group's flagship Hotel Okura Tokyo established the brand. Set in a 30,000-square-meter garden reached down a Japanese-larch lane, it grew from a 1956 lodge built for the adjacent golf club and carries the Kajima name associated with the contractor that built the Usui Pass railway through these mountains.
The setting
Highland Karuizawa, Nagano, down a Japanese-larch lane beside the golf club.
Restaurants and bars
- Continental Room — Restaurant · Continental
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