PLANS have been unveiled for the largest hotel in Japan, which will be built in Yokohama ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The APA Hotel & Resort Yokohama Bay Tower will occupy a 37-storey tower on the site of a disused wharf in the heart of the city. With a total floor area of 58,000m2 and 2,400 guestrooms, the property will have the highest room count in a single hotel in Japan.
Scheduled to open in 2019, the hotel is located close to the Minatomirai district, which also holds the Pacifico Yokohama convention centre and Japan’s largest Chinatown. Tokyo is 40 minutes away by train.
The APA Group, which operates mid-scale hotels across the country, also announced an ambitious expansion plan in the run-up to the Olympics. It is developing a property at Makuhari, east of central Tokyo, and a 1,000-room hotel in the Ryogoku district of Tokyo, close to the national sumo stadium.
The company has also set its sights on expanding overseas in the coming years and expressed a desire to work with partners in the key markets of Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea.
