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Prince Hotels hotels
Japanese city hotels share an innkeeping tradition with resorts built around golf and skiing.
Prince Hotels is the original hotel name of the Seibu group, now operated by Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide. The atlas files the upper houses: Grand Prince hotels, The Prince Park Tower Tokyo, Prince Waikiki, and the Okinawa Prince.
5 Prince Hotels hotels in 2 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide
- Worldwide: The Seibu Prince group reported 96 hotels as of 1 April 2026 (62 in Japan and 34 overseas), across several lines. Grand Prince, The Prince, and Prince Hotel are the upper lines; Prince Smart Inn, launched in 2017, is the limited-service line.
- On the atlas: 1 Core Luxury, 3 Accessible Luxury, 1 Near Luxury
History
Prince Hotels is the original hotel name of the Seibu group, now operated by Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide. The atlas files the upper houses: Grand Prince hotels, The Prince Park Tower Tokyo, Prince Waikiki, and the Okinawa Prince.
Timeline
- 1947 — A Prince Hotel opens in Karuizawa. The company history treats this as the debut of the Prince Hotel name.
- 1955 — The Akasaka Prince Hotel, later the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, opens.
- 1956 — Seibu Railway establishes Prince Hotels, Inc. on 4 June as the governing body of the Takanawa Prince Hotel.
- 2021 — Seibu Holdings announces that Prince Hotels will become Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide Inc.
- 2022 — The renamed company begins operations. Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan opens.
- 2024 — Prince Hotels & Resorts, StayWell Holdings, and Prince Resorts Hawaii are presented as one global brand, Seibu Prince Hotels & Resorts.
- 2025 — Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide acquires Ace Group International. Ace continues as its own brand.
The houses to know
- The Prince Park Tower Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan — Kenzo Tange designed the 33-floor tower that opened on 11 April 2005 beside Shiba Park and Tokyo Tower, and it holds 644 rooms, onsen water drawn from deep underground, and a bowling alley in the house.
- Prince Waikiki, Honolulu, United States — Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, the Tokyo owner Forbes then called the richest man on earth, opened the Hawaii Prince on April 20, 1990, on the ground where Jack Myers imploded Henry J.
- Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa, Tokyo, Japan — Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa dates from 1953 and stands in a Japanese garden of about twenty thousand square metres near Shinagawa Station, where the old Takedanomiya house still stands on the grounds.
- Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan, Ginowan, Japan — Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan stretches along Ginowan's marina waterfront, with every room facing the East China Sea from a private balcony.
- Grand Prince Hotel Osaka Bay, Osaka, Japan — Grand Prince Hotel Osaka Bay is the operating hotel at Nanko, the house that traded as Hyatt Regency Osaka from its 1994 opening.
Newest openings
- None of the houses filed in the atlas carry a 2024 or later date.
Opening next
- Seibu Prince told Hospitality Investor in June 2026 that the group pipeline held four projects totalling more than 700 rooms, including one hotel in Indonesia and two in Thailand. The release does not assign those projects to the Prince Hotels name rather than a sister line.
Every Prince Hotels hotel on the atlas
Japan
- The Prince Park Tower Tokyo — Tokyo · Core Luxury
- Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa — Tokyo · Accessible Luxury
- Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan — Ginowan · Accessible Luxury
- Grand Prince Hotel Osaka Bay — Osaka · Near Luxury
United States
- Prince Waikiki — Honolulu · Accessible Luxury
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