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Exterior of the Nara Hotel main building

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Nara Hotel奈良ホテル

Location
Nara Prefecture Nara
Opened
1909

Photo: Waei, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Overview

A Meiji guest house beneath a tiled roof. The classic hotel once called "the State Guest House of Kansai".

A hotel opened in 1909 (Meiji 42). The main building was designed by Kingo Tatsuno and Yasushi Kataoka, combining Japanese and Western elements: a Japanese-style exterior with tiled roofs, and Western-style interiors.

Set on high ground in a corner of Nara Park overlooking Ara-ike Pond, it has received distinguished guests from Japan and abroad since its opening.

This description has been translated from the Japanese original.

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Opened
1909
Architect
Kingo Tatsuno, Yasushi Kataoka
Use
Hotel
Location
1096 Takabatakechō, Nara, Nara Prefecture
Category
HotelsHistoric BuildingsModern ArchitectureKansai

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Architect

Kingo Tatsuno

Kingo Tatsuno1854–1919

Born in Karatsu, Hizen Province (now Karatsu, Saga Prefecture). A member of the first graduating class of the architecture department of the Imperial College of Engineering, where he studied under Josiah Conder, he later became a professor there.

His manner of layering bands of white stone over red brick is known as the "Tatsuno style". His works include the Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building and the main building of the Bank of Japan head office.

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Location

1096 Takabatakechō, Nara, Nara Prefecture

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Sources

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Photo Credits

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  • 01Nara Hotel 01.jpg

    Photo: Waei

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  • 02Nara Hotel 2014 (3b).jpg

    Photo: Gryffindor

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  • 03Nara Hotel main building - Nara, Japan - DSC07416.jpg

    Photo: Daderot

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  • 04Nara Hotel 3.jpg

    Photo: Shintaro Masafuji, Japan

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  • 05Nara Hotel 2.jpg

    Photo: Shintaro Masafuji, Japan

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