Mori Trust announced on November 1 that it had decided on the name “Shisui Luxury Collection Hotel Nara” for the new hotel development “Nara Yoshijoen Project (tentative name)” (55 Noborioji-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, etc.), which is being promoted by the company under the “Yoshijoen Area Conservation, Management and Use Project,” a public-private partnership project by Nara Prefecture. Miwako Date, president of Mori Trust, explained the concept and overall plan at a press conference held in Tokyo on the same day.
Shisui Luxury Collection Hotel Nara is the third hotel under the “Shisui SUI” hotel brand launched by the company in 2017, and is also the first hotel in the prefecture to attract Marriott International’s “Luxury Collection,” the world’s leading hotel chain’s most luxurious category brand. Construction began on February 21, 2022, and is currently underway for opening in the summer of 2023.
The location is Nara Prefecture, known throughout the world as the birthplace of Japanese culture. Among them, the area around Yoshijoen, the construction site, is located at the western edge of the famous scenic “Nara Park” and is surrounded by rich greenery and World Heritage sites such as Kasuga Taisha Shrine, Kofukuji Temple, and Todaiji Temple.
As the name of the new hotel, which is derived from “shikan suiba” (purple trunk and green leaves), which describes the lush and beautiful nature of Nara, suggests, the new hotel will take full advantage of such a scenic location to “offer a stay that lets you experience the history, tradition, and mystery of Nara.
Under its “Luxury Destination Network” concept, the company has been attracting and developing hotels of global standards throughout Japan, including the JW Marriott Hotel Nara, which opened in July 2020, and the Suiran Luxury Collection Kyoto, which has received high praise from the international media. Luxury Collection Kyoto,” which opened in July 2020 and has been highly acclaimed by overseas media, etc. Through hotel development, the company has been communicating the charms of Japan that it can be proud of to the world.
The new hotel, Shisui Luxury Collection Hotel Nara, will also restore the historical buildings that surround it, while blending them with the new buildings and lush green nature to create a relaxing and spacious atmosphere. The new hotel will also restore the historical buildings in the surrounding area and integrate them with new buildings and lush greenery to create a relaxing and comfortable atmosphere.
The building was designed by Kengo Kuma, one of Japan’s leading architects. Based on the design concept of “combining tradition and modernity,” eight two-story buildings will stand side by side on a site of about 9,000 tsubo (approximately 9,000 m2), creating an accommodation facility that will resemble “a townscape that blends into the Nara environment.
The reception facilities and main dining room are housed in the former governor’s residence, a Taisho Era building where the San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed. All 43 guest rooms are designed with designs inspired by traditional Nara crafts, and offer a private space with a view of the natural beauty of the garden outside the window.
The remaining Japanese garden on the large site is expected to be used as a unique venue for special meetings, tea ceremonies, and cocktail parties in Japan and abroad.
President Date commented on the hotel development at the Corona Disaster, “After 2020, the world’s travelers have stopped their march. However, the world is on the move and the number of world travelers is expected to increase in the future. Now is the time for Japan to revitalize itself as a tourism-oriented country. Mori Trust Group would like to promote the project of Shisui Luxury Collection Hotel Nara to help Japan become a tourism-oriented country.
In addition to continuing to focus on inbound tourism, he said, “We would like to contribute to making Japan a more advanced tourism destination and to regional development by improving the attractiveness of each region of Japan and communicating Japan to the people in the surrounding areas and to the world.
© Source travel watch
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