is a chain of hotels in Japan, the largest of which is its flagship hotel in the

Nishi-Shinjuku is a skyscraper business district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. This region was previously called . Nishi-Shinjuku was Tokyo's first major foray into building skyscrapers with the first appearing in the 1970s with Keio Plaza Inter-Continental. It ...

district in

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. The Keio Plaza Hotel was partially destroyed in the 1984 film ''

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'' and the 1991 film '' Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah''.

Locations

Tokyo

Keio Plaza Hotel was the first skyscraper built in Nishi-Shinjuku and the first high-rise hotel in Japan. The 1,438-room hotel is a re-development project on the site where a water purification plant (Yodobashi Purification Plant) formerly existed. The hotel consists of two towers. The first tower is 178 metres tall and was completed in June 1971; it was the tallest building in Tokyo from 1970 until 1974, when it was surpassed by the nearby

Shinjuku Sumitomo Building is a high-rise building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Design The building's three-sided construction makes good use of available space, yet the building's design sacrifices valuable floor space by including a massive atrium running the en ...

. The second tower is 138 metres tall and construction was finished in November 1980. In 1975 the hotel opened the first hotel chapel in Japan. In the early 1980s, the Japanese government planned to lease a corner of the hotel's rooftop for sublease to the

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, officially for the purpose of relaying television transmissions between

Yokota Air Base , is a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) and United States Air Force (USAF) base in the Tama Area, or Western Tokyo. It occupies portions of Akishima, Fussa, Hamura, Mizuho, Musashimurayama, and Tachikawa. The base houses 14,000 perso ...

and the Hardy Barracks in central Tokyo.

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lawmaker Koichiro Ueda alleged that the real purpose of the plan was to facilitate communications with US military strategic planners based in central Tokyo. The hotel hosts the annual

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contest. It made an appearance in the 1984 film ''

'', where it was damaged by

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Other locations

* Hachioji - 200 rooms, opened in 1994. Located near Hachioji Station in western Tokyo. * Tama - 248 rooms, opened in 1990. Located near

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in western Tokyo. *

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- A franchised property located in Chuo-ku, Sapporo. Keio Plaza also operated a hotel in

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from 1976 to 1997, and has an affiliate relationship with the Howard Plaza Hotel in

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Corporate management

Keio Plaza Hotel Co., Ltd. was formed in 1968 as a division of the Keio Electric Railway. It operates the Keio Plaza Hotel properties in Tokyo, Hachioji and Tama, and has operating income of around 28.4 billion yen. Keio Plaza was branded as part of

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from 1972 to 2003, and subsequently joined the Summit Hotels & Resorts group.

References

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