HOTEL firm Fujita Kanko has announced plans to open two new properties in Kyoto to meet growing demand for tourist accommodation in the ancient Japanese capital.
The new additions to the company’s Hotel Gracery brand will be the 97-room Kyoto Teramachi, due to open in 2016, and the 128-room Kyoto Shinkyogoku to open in 2017.
The two new hotels are to be constructed close to each other in the traditional Shinkyogoku shopping district, which also has a wide array of tourist sites.
“We are looking to appeal to both domestic and overseas travellers, particularly because there are so many foreign tourists coming to Japan at the moment,” Yasuko Kitahara, a spokeswoman for Fujita Kanko, told TTG Asia e-Daily.
According to the Kyoto City Tourism Bureau, the number of international visitors to the city increased 35 per cent in 2013 from the previous year.
Fujita Kanko is conducting an ambitious expansion plan, opening new hotels at home as well as offices in other countries as it explores overseas opportunities.
It opened the Gracery Shinjuku earlier this year, as well as its Washington-brand properties in Sendai and Hiroshima late last year.
In 2015, the company opened offices in Jakarta and Bangkok.
