The Hotel New Grand (ホテルニューグランド) (JASDAQ: 9720) is a historic hotel in Yokohama, Japan, overlooking Yamashita Park. It opened in 1927, four years after the Great Kantō earthquake devastated much of the city.
| Hotel New Grand | |
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 Hotel New Grand, showing original 1927 wing and 1991 tower behind | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Yokohama, Japan |
| Opening | 1927 |
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| Number of rooms | 249 |
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| Official website | |
The hotel was used as accommodation by American troops during the occupation of Japan following World War II; one of the hotel suites is set aside and maintained just as it was furnished when General Douglas MacArthur stayed there, his first night in Japan during the occupation.[1] The hotel is believed to be the place where the famous yoshoku dish naporitan was invented by a head chef.
In 1991, an eighteen-story tower was built as an expansion of the hotel.
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General Douglas MacArthur and Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright at the New Grand Hotel, August 31, 1945.
References
edit- ^ Ashenburg, Katherine. "In Yokohama, Turrets and Tea." New York Times. 26 December 1999.
External links
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