Historical / lost work
Imperial Hotel
- Architect
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Place
- Tokyo, Japan
- Construction
- Completed 1923
- Design / archive date
- 1916
- Catalogue reference
- FLWFA 1509 / S.194
Imperial Hotel by Frank Lloyd Wright
Imperial Hotel, 1922, demolished 1967, Tokyo, Japan, photo by Anonymous, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Imperial Hotel, 1922, demolished 1967, Tokyo, Japan, photo by Anonymous, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Imperial Hotel, 1922, demolished 1967, Tokyo, Japan, photo by Anonymous, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Architecture & history
The Imperial Hotel (帝国ホテル, teikoku hoteru) is a hotel in Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo. It was created in the late 1880s at the request of the Japanese aristocracy to cater to the increasing number of Western visitors to Japan. The hotel site is located just south of the Imperial Palace grounds, next to the previous location of the Palace moat. The modern hotel overlooks the Palace, the 40-acre (16 ha) Hibiya Park, and the Yurakucho and Ginza neighborhoods.
In a reference to the three Edo era branch houses of the Tokugawa clan, the Imperial Hotel, Hotel Okura Tokyo, and Hotel New Otani Tokyo are often referred to as one of the three great hotels (御三家, gosanke) of Tokyo.
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