Inside hotel Chinzanso Tokyo - hallway 2014

Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo ( Japanese: ホテル椿山荘東京) is a five star hotel in Bunkyō, Tokyo. The property is divided into four areas – the hotel building, the Tower building, the Plaza building, and Chinzan-so garden. The hotel has 260 rooms and suites, 12 restaurants and bars, 36 meeting and banquet rooms and Tokyo's largest hotel spa facility, Yu, The Spa.

History

For over six centuries, the land surrounding Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo has been home to wild camellias. It was featured in a wood block print by the ukiyoe artist Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858). The current name of the garden "Chinzanso" was given by

Yamagata Aritomo ''Gensui (Imperial Japanese Army), Gensui'' Prince , also known as Prince Yamagata Kyōsuke, was a senior-ranking Japanese people, Japanese military commander, twice-elected Prime Minister of Japan, and a leading member of the ''genrō'', an � ...

(1838-1922), an influential member of a group of elderly statesmen known as the Genrō in the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912–26) eras. In 1918, reflecting the will of Yamagata, the property was assigned to Baron Fujita Heitaro. Though the garden was destroyed during

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, reconstruction began in 1948 under the direction of Ogawa Eiichi, the founder of the company now known as

Fujita Kankō Fujita Kankō () is one of the leading companies in the hospitality industry in Japan, and operates such prominent hotels as the Hotel Chinzanso in Tokyo and Kowaku-en ( 小涌園) in Hakone, and owns the WHG Hotels (WHGホテルズ) in major citi ...

, whose vision of "building a green oasis in Tokyo" included the transportation of more than 10,000 trees. On November 11, 1952, a grand opening ceremony for the new Chinzanso garden and reception center took place. On January 1, 2013, after 20 years of operation as a Four Seasons, the hotel was integrated with Chinzanso reception center and renamed "Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo".

Dining

*Il Teatro – Italian Restaurant otel building *Camellia – French Restaurant laza building *Ryotei Kinsui - Kaiseki Dining

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*Hanaguruma – Casual Japanese Restaurant

*Miyuki – Japanese Restaurant otel building *Mokushundo – Stone-grilling and Kaiseki Restaurant

*Muchaan –

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Dining

*Chuuan – Sushi Dining

*The Bistro – Casual Dining otel building *Le Jardin – Bar otel building *Foresta – Café laza building*Le Marquis – Main Bar otel building

Spa

The hotel's on-site spa facility, Yu, The Spa offers over 40 types of treatments, from traditional Japanese body treatments to specialized programs for pregnant women and new mothers. Facilities include: *Indoor heated pool with retractable roof *Outdoor pool with a waterfall *Jacuzzi and sauna *Japanese

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baths

External links

Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo (Official website)

References

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