On a Monday in June, 25 years ago, activists broke into the vacant Imperial Hotel, made their way to the highest floor, and lowered a massive sign emblazoned with the directive: “House the Homeless ...

In the heart of Kyoto’s Gion district, where the glow of soft lanterns meets centuries of tradition, a significant new chapter in Japanese hospitality is about to begin. The Imperial Hotel Co., Ltd.

The Imperial Hotel was first built in 1890, but it wasn't until Frank Lloyd Wright gave it a second life in 1923 that cemented its reputation as Tokyo's most glamorous destination. Commissioning ...

Tokyo’s world famous Imperial Hotel is slated for a rebuilding by Paris firm Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects (ATTA). ATTA joins the ranks of Frank Lloyd Wright and renowned Japanese architects, ...

Stepping into the 120-year-old splendor of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel can be quite surreal. I had just landed from All Nippon Airway's inaugural direct flight from Chicago to Tokyo and after the 13-hour ...

For the past 130 years, Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel has witnessed the city’s changing landscape, Japan’s emergence into a tourism hotbed and makeovers by several architects. Of the final group, one name ...

Two decades after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, when imperial rule was restored and Japan reopened to the world after 250 years of isolation under the Shoguns, the Imperial Hotel was built on the ...

Imperial Hotel Taipei (台北華國大飯店) is to shut down at the end of October, succumbing to a business decline induced by social distancing restrictions and border controls to curb a COVID-19 outbreak. The ...