is an international hotel chain with locations mainly in Japan. The original

Hotel Okura is a luxury hotel opened in 1962 in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It is operated by Okura Hotels and was a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. The historic main wing was demolished in 2015, with a modern replacement on the site opened in 2019, ...

opened in

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in 1962. The Okura Hotels & Resorts worldwide chain includes Okura Hotels in, among other places,

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and

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. Okura Hotels also owns the Hotel JAL City and

Hotel Nikko is an international hotel chain comprising properties in Asia, Europe, North America, and the South Pacific. It is owned by Okura Hotels. Nikko Hotels International (NHI) began operations in 1972 as the global hotel brand of Japan Airlines, ...

chains.

History

Hotel Okura Co. Ltd. was founded in 1958 as Taisei Kanko Co. Ltd, serving as the company owning and later running the newly created Hotel Okura Tokyo in 1962. The hotel and company was founded by

Kishichiro Okura Baron was a Japanese entrepreneur and hotelier. Biography Baron Kishichiro Okura was son of Okura Kihachiro (1837-1928), an entrepreneur who built up the Okura-gumi and founded the giant Okura Zaibatsu (family owned conglomerate) and the Okura ...

, who envisioned Hotel Okura becoming a luxury hotel pioneering contemporary Japanese design. Designed by architect Yoshiro Taniguchi, the hotel's originality received worldwide admiration and numerous media and popular culture coverage. Following the success of the initial hotel, Okura expanded with a restaurant bearing the hotel's namesake in Nagoya in 1966 before expanding the company westward with the opening of Hotel Okura Amsterdam in 1971. The Hotel Okura was turned into an officially recognised hotel chain in 1978. In 1979,

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opened in Seoul as a partner hotel of Okura Hotels. Over the next decades, the group continued to expand domestically in Japan with the opening of properties in Nagano, Kobe, Hamamatsu, Kyoto, and Fukuoka. Taisei Kanko Co. Ltd. was replaced by Hotel Okura Co. Ltd. in 1987. The company entered the Chinese market with the opening of Garden Hotel in Shanghai in 1990. A marketing alliance was established in 2006 with Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts. The company entered a further business alliance in 2008 with Rihga Royal Hotels Co. Ltd., sharing a joint venture in sales and marketing of accommodation business. In 2010, Hotel Okura Co. Ltd. acquired JAL Hotels from Japan Airlines, in turn taking over the Hotel Nikko and Hotel JAL City brands under its wing. The company's expansion continued in 2012, with the unveiling of The Okura Prestige, a subsidiary brand operating luxury hotels in foreign markets; the brand debuted with properties in Taipei and Bangkok. In 2015, the historic main building of the Tokyo Hotel Okura was controversially demolished, garnering significant criticism from historians and designers. The demolition received considerable media attention, including coverage of designer

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's unsuccessful movement to save the building. The low-rise hotel was subsequently replaced with a skyscraper, which reopened as The Okura Tokyo in 2019.

Hotels

As of July 2021, Hotel Okura operates 23 hotels in Asia, Europe, and North America, with 7 hotels in the pipeline. Japan * Hotel Okura, Chiba-shi, Chiba * Okura Akademia Hotel,

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, Chiba * Hotel Okura,

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, Kyushu * Hotel Okura JR Huis Ten Bosch,

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, Kyushu * Shiroyama Hotel,

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, Kyushu * Hotel Okura,

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, Hokkaido * Hotel Okura, Kobe, Hyogo * Kyoto Hotel Okura, Kyoto * Hotel Kajima no Mori, Kitasaku, Nagano * Hotel Okura, Niigata-shi, Niigata * Okura Act City Hotel,

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, Shizuoka * Forest Inn Showakan, Tokyo * Hotel East 21, Tokyo * Hotel Okura Tokyo Bay, Tokyo * The Okura, Tokyo Asia-Pacific * The Okura Prestige, Phnom Penh, Cambodia * Okura Garden Hotel, Shanghai, China * The Shilla, Seoul, South Korea (partner hotel) * The Shilla, Jeju, South Korea (partner hotel) * Hotel Okura,

* The Okura Prestige,

Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

, Myanmar (opening 2022) * Hotel Okura,

Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...

, Philippines (opening 2021) * Hotel Okura Bayshore, Manila, Philippines (opening 2024) * The Okura Prestige, Taipei, Taiwan * The Okura Prestige,

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, Taiwan (opening 2023) * The Okura Prestige, Bangkok, Thailand * The Okura Prestige Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (opening 2023) Europe *

, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Okura Spa & Resort,

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, Turkey North America * The Kahala Hotel & Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii

References

External links

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