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Hotel New Otani hotels
Grand Japanese city hotels grow from an Olympic-era Tokyo flagship built around an Edo garden.
Hotel New Otani Tokyo was built for the 1964 Olympics by Yonetaro Otani, on land he owned in Kioicho beside the Imperial Palace. He kept the stone wall and garden of an Edo daimyo estate and opened the hotel on 1 September 1964. The atlas also files Hotel New Otani Osaka and Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong in Beijing, dated 1990 with 460 rooms.
3 Hotel New Otani hotels in 2 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Founded by Yonetaro Otani
- Worldwide: The Tokyo flagship opened on 1 September 1964 and now counts 1,389 guest rooms across the Main, the Garden Tower, and Garden Court, on a 69,226-square-metre site. The atlas also files Osaka and the Chang Fu Gong in Beijing.
- On the atlas: 1 Core Luxury, 1 Accessible Luxury, 1 Near Luxury
History
Hotel New Otani Tokyo was built for the 1964 Olympics by Yonetaro Otani, on land he owned in Kioicho beside the Imperial Palace. He kept the stone wall and garden of an Edo daimyo estate and opened the hotel on 1 September 1964. The atlas also files Hotel New Otani Osaka and Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong in Beijing, dated 1990 with 460 rooms.
Timeline
- 1962 — Yonetaro Otani agrees to build a hotel for the Tokyo Olympics on his Kioicho land.
- 1964 — Hotel New Otani Tokyo opens on 1 September. The atlas dates the Tokyo house to 1964.
- 1979 — The hotel is a venue for the G7 summit.
- 1990 — Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong, in Beijing, is dated 1990 in the atlas, 460 rooms.
The houses to know
- Hotel New Otani Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan — Former sumo wrestler Yonetaro Otani built Hotel New Otani in seventeen months for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics on the old Fushimi-no-miya and Katō Kiyomasa estate, keeping a 400-year-old garden while pioneering curtain walls and prefabricated bathrooms in Japan.
- Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong, Beijing, China — Chang is the Great Wall, Fu is Mount Fuji, and that is the whole name.
- Hotel New Otani Osaka, Osaka, Japan — Hotel New Otani Osaka faces Osaka Castle Park, giving many rooms and restaurants direct views of the castle and its seasonal greenery.
Newest openings
- None of the open houses filed in the atlas carry a 2024 or later date.
Opening next
- No named unopened New Otani hotel was verified.
Every Hotel New Otani hotel on the atlas
Japan
- Hotel New Otani Tokyo — Tokyo · Core Luxury
- Hotel New Otani Osaka — Osaka · Near Luxury
China
- Hotel New Otani Chang Fu Gong — Beijing · Accessible Luxury
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