Registration Date：2016.02.25
Main entrance of Kawana Hotel
Heavy mantelpiece (1st lobby)
The massive furnishings of the second lobby.
Eating the famous omelet rice at Sun Parlor.
main dining room
Natural marble floor (main bar)
Custom-made carpet (in front of the escalator)
View of Mt. Fuji from the top floor of the main building
A view of Oshima from the golf course
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In the Meiji era (1868-1912), Baron Ohkura Kishichiro, the second head of the Ohkura Zaibatsu (the founding family of the Okura Hotel), was impressed by the mansion of a British aristocrat where he was studying, and built it as a villa for the Ohkura Zaibatsu after returning to Japan. After returning to Japan, it was built as a villa for the Ohkura Zaibatsu. Later, it was opened as a hotel with a golf course. After the start of the Greater East Asia War, the hotel was used as a detention center for foreign embassies and a naval hospital for a while, but it has consistently been used as a high-status resort hotel. Since its construction, the hotel has been a unique cultural asset designated by the government, which is a very rare example of a place where people's lives can be seen.
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Description
The Kawana Hotel opened on December 6, 1936 as a resort hotel consisting of three stories above ground, a partial basement, and a tower, with a total area of more than 6,600 square meters. It boasted 60 guestrooms (today it has 100), a sun parlor, lobby, dining room, grill, main bar, reading room (library), lounge, and projection room. All of these facilities were built using the latest technology at the time, and the materials, structures, and designs used in their construction have been long loved by guests as examples of contemporary architecture in the early Showa period. The painstaking commitment to detail by Kishichiro Okura, founder of the Kawana Hotel, and architect Teitaro Takahashi is apparent. The entrance of the Kawana Hotel is made of local Izu stone, and as you enter, you can see past the first lobby to the palm trees in the courtyard and beyond to the sea (Pacific Ocean). You can also feel the profound, historical atmosphere by simply being there and taking in things such as the emblem in the lobby, which is inspired by European castles, and the particulars of the counter at the main bar. The dream of Okura is still carefully woven into the fabric of the hotel today.
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