After a US$1.2 billion investment, the Palace Hotel Tokyo is set to debut on May 17.
Located in the business district of Tokyo’s central Marunouchi, the 23-storey property is an eight-minute walk from the Tokyo Station and 15 kilometres from Haneda International Airport. Its main entrance is located across the street from Otemon Gate, which was once the main gate of the Edo Castle that housed the imperial family.
The hotel will offer 290 rooms, including 12 suites. There will be 10 dining destinations, including an all-day dining grand kitchen and lobby lounge on the first floor. The sixth floor houses four Japanese restaurants, with three of them specialised in sushi, tempura and teppanyaki respectively. Also on the same floor are the French restaurant and a lounge bar, while the fifth floor is home to the Chinese restaurant.
For meetings and events, there will be a total of six function rooms to choose from, with the main facility offering a capacity for 1,500 people.
In addition, the hotel’s first of four basements level will feature 17 retail outlets, and double as an underground passage to the Otemachi subway station. The passage will be completed in spring 2013. The property is also home to the second Evian Spa outside of France.
Palace Hotel Tokyo president, Takashi Kobayashi said: “The hotel is Japanese through and through, from its ownership and management, to its service protocols and its picture-perfect location by the Imperial Palace gardens and moats. For domestic and international travellers alike, whether they’re with us for business or leisure, we hope they will walk away saying, ‘To have stayed at Palace Hotel Tokyo is to have experienced the very essence of Japanese hospitality'."
The hotel will begin taking room reservations on February 1.
For more information, visit www.palacehoteltokyo.com
Tiffany Sandrasageran
