Tokyo considering Page No.167
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No.167 Hotel OKURA Tokyo (At Toranomon)

(It is the Tokyo guide to introduce by the image and the column).

The "HOTERU-O-KURA" Tokyo main building front


Hotel OKURA Tokyo (Showa 37) is the supreme hotel which was practiced in 1962. It is one of the hotel big threes and it reigns as the supreme hotel which represents Japan as it entertains a high-up and Imperial Household from the foreign country, and so on, (The hotel big three : Imperial Hotel and Hotel New Otani Hotel OKURA). However, because Tokyo's hotel competition by the hotel with foreign capital affiliate in these days is intensifying, this Hotel OKURA, too, is forced to fight hard and this year, in March, it is striking the strategy of opening a grand comfort floor (the relaxation floor the purpose of which was relaxation), and so on, to overcome hotel competition.
By ) (of Ebisu) of Park Century Hyatt Tokyo ( (Shinjuku) ) and Westin Hotel Tokyo ( OBJ DO and and Four Seasons Hotel Chinzansou as "new big three" at the hotel with foreign capital affiliate by the way of ( DO and the hotel with foreign capital affiliate to practice one after another there there is a novel thing, too, in The fact that the visitor flows through raised ), that place will occur but we cannot but ask for the service by which the service attitude and the summation of the hotelman in Hotel OKURA Tokyo were introduced for there to be first-class excellent reputation and that to do Hotel OKURA Tokyo's improving is never damaged.
The name of Hotel OKURA associates the name of 2nd charge Okura 喜 Shichiro in Okura financial combine which was one of the 5 Ootakara cliques (Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura) before the war. In 1925 OBJ DO and Okura 喜 Shichiro advocates necessity at the international supreme hotel in Japan with Shibusawa Eiichi of the Tokyo Olympic Games OBJ DO and to be the person who is installed in the manager in old Imperial Hotel but to pass the end of the war The hotel which was built in the Okura mansion trace with Noda rock Jiro, elaborating the conception of the international hotel construction when waited and making the rationality of the Europe and America, and Japanese time-honored tradition beauty, these two harmonies a basic conception is this Hotel OKURA. (It refers from the hotel brochure).
The design in Hotel OKURA is using the leaf of the gingko, but designing and this is used for the various tableware and interior and equipment kind because the appearance of the leaf of the ginkgo nut to bring up only to the Orient is beautiful and also it is perpetual youth and longevity and a fireproofing symbol.

At the vestibule, the bellboy opens a door and carries luggage.

The silent lobby awaits when setting pace foot.
There are many, too, fans that the atmosphere of this lobby is intolerable.
It is different from Imperial Hotel and Hotel New Otani and the place of the hotel is America big 使館"YA". It thinks to find a suitable location in the place to have been put in the Spanish embassy, and for the guard around to be in the heavy thing, too, and for this silence to be carelessly kept because there are few "BURATU" and calling visitors. When searching for the front at the lobby, the bellboy came immediately near and heard "will it be some search?" with the natural smiling face. It is a motto that is called "to act before heard by the customer". Indeed, it is Hotel OKURA.

The left is a front at the main building. The right is a front at the annex.
An out of either of the check-ins is made.

A main building and an annex are linked at the aisle.
It finishes a check-in, the bellboy has the luggage and notifies a room of it.

The elevator lobby in each floor
Equipped with the sofa and the ashtray

The corridor at the guest room (The annex)
There are not a person and a meeting at the room in opposite.
A door at the room is alternately arranged.

The standard twin room

The folding paper of the Japanese paper of "the crane" and "the turtle" was put on the pillow.
When Hotel OKURA wants to provide a little user-friendliness of the relaxation of "the summation" and "the West" for the customer
The thing to be thinking from usually
It will seem to be fresh with the foreigner and for the Japanese, it is possible to look back to the Japanese culture once more.

Special fax is put to the all the rooms.
A terminal, too, is wired for the Internet access of broadband compatible to be made.

The washstand and the restroom
The excellent one where water for the sound extinguishing is automatically poured into the toilet when sitting on the toilet seat in the one with bidet

At the partition curtain with the shower room, it is a one with the embroidery of "Hotel Okura".

The guide at the jogging course around is falling to the doorknob.
There are many jogging persons in the foreigner visitor "TOKA"

It attempted to ask the room service of the wine.
On the phone, the answering by the surname returned, saying "being * * style, room service".

In being moved only about this to the ordinary man, too, !

In the morning, a desired morning edition is sent.

The menu of the room service
From 2,835 yen in breakfast's being the most inexpensive
The fresh juice is 1,050-yen 也.
The summation set meal is 3,675 yen.

The silent lobby which calms down with anything

A snow viewing sliding paper door is used.

A beetle was put in the Boys' Festival.

The woman who guides an elevator is "clothing".

There is one which becomes in [Writting Space] in the lobby mezzanine.

The atmosphere which the shopping zone, too, is peculiar to
This place is the atmosphere which is the same as Imperial Hotel.

An English guide brochure for the foreigner, too, is put.
(Of course, a Japanese guide, too, is placed).
Incidentally, by setting recently the staying plan which is reasonable to oppose keen hotel competition, it is possible to stay more inexpensively than the fee generally. Specifically, because it is sometimes possible to stay at the price to be near the half price by when reserving in the Internet, too, we recommend the staying which used the Internet.


This series is updated. It looks forward to the next time OBJ DO.

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