A hotel brand in Japan
Okura
Hotel Okura opened in Tokyo in 1962, founded by Kishichiro Okura and designed by Yoshiro Taniguchi as a modern hotel in a Japanese manner; it was rebuilt and reopened as The Okura Tokyo in 2019.
Hotel Okura Kyoto, which began as the Kyoto Hotel in 1888, took the Okura name in 2002 after a tie-up with Hotel Okura. The Okura group has more hotels in Japan and abroad than the three on our list.
- Places to stay
- 3
- With a hot spring in every room
- 1
What they share
- City hotels, in Tokyo and Kyoto
- Each has a French restaurant: Nouvelle Epoque in Tokyo and at Okazaki Bettei, Pittoresque at Hotel Okura Kyoto
- A dress code at the French restaurant
- No hot-spring water
How to choose
For Tokyo
The Okura Tokyo: the 1962 lobby reproduced, in a hotel rebuilt in 2019
For central Kyoto
Hotel Okura Kyoto: linked underground to Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae station, with a view over the city
For a quiet Kyoto stay
Hotel Okura Kyoto Okazaki Bettei: 52 rooms in Okazaki, for guests aged 12 and over
3 hotels
Toranomon, Tokyo
HotelThe Okura Tokyo
オークラ東京
Yoshiro Taniguchi's 1962 lobby, reproduced by his son
Kawaramachi Oike, Kyoto
HotelHotel Okura Kyoto
ホテルオークラ京都
A hotel since 1890 on the Choshu domain's old residence
Okazaki, Kyoto
HotelHotel Okura Kyoto Okazaki Bettei
ホテルオークラ京都 岡崎別邸
In a Hongan-ji temple precinct, fitted by Kyoto craft heirs
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Q&A
It stands on the same site: the 1962 hotel closed in 2015 and reopened as The Okura Tokyo in 2019, with the original lobby reinstated. Its lanterns, tables and lattice were put back as they were.
Hotel Okura Kyoto is a 310-room tower on Kawaramachi Oike, on the site of a hotel that began in 1888. Hotel Okura Kyoto Okazaki Bettei is a 52-room annexe in Okazaki, near the Heian Shrine, for guests aged 12 and over.
No. The Okura Tokyo has a pool, saunas and a carbonated-spring bath, Hotel Okura Kyoto has baths in its fitness club for those 18 and over, and Okazaki Bettei has no shared bath.