Hotel Okura Amsterdam is a hotel in Amsterdam that is part of the Japanese chain Okura Hotels & Resorts. The 23-floor building has a height of 78 metres, and was designed by Dutch architects Bernard Bijvoet and Gerard Holt and Japanese architects Yoshiro Taniguchi and Yozo Shibata. The hotel is located on the

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and the Jozef Israelskade near the Barbiersbrug over the Amstel Canal, and was opened in September 1971 by

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. Upon its completion/opening, Hotel Okura Amsterdam was the second tallest building in Amsterdam; only Tower Overhoeks in Amsterdam-Noord was even higher. The hotel was the first European hotel of the Okura hotel chain. It is a member of

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History

The building plot was located next to the location where the old RAI building, which was a temporary building, stood.

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had once intended the location of the old RAI for the construction of a concert hall and public house. When an opera house was planned to be developed there in the 1970s, as part of the renovation of

De Pijp De Pijp (; English: The Pipe) is a neighbourhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is located directly south of Amsterdam's city centre and it is part of the borough Amsterdam-Zuid, in a part of the city known as the Old South ( ''Oud Zuid''). It is se ...

, the neighbourhood protested under the slogan "Opera aan de Ferdinand Bolstraat? Sol-do-mi-terop". The plan was cancelled and the Japanese investors in the hotel complex demanded that the area be given a commercial use. Eventually, however, a sports centre, a kindergarten, and a care centre arose within the hotel site's vicinity.

Restaurants

* Ciel Bleu, restaurant with two Michelin stars * Yamazato, restaurant with one Michelin star. Serves the authentic Japanese kaiseki kitchen * Sazanka, restaurant that had one Michelin star in the period 2015-2018. Serves the Teppanyaki kitchen * Serre, restaurant with Bib Gourmand

References

External links

Hotel Okura Amsterdam website
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