Start of Construction of Mitsui Garden Hotel
Kyoto Shijo Expansion Project (Tentative Name)
Opening Planned for Spring 2020
July 31, 2018
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Mitsui Fudosan Hotel Management Co., Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan, July 30, 2018 - Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., a leading global real estate company headquartered in Tokyo is pleased to announce that it has started construction of the Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo Expansion Project (tentative name) to be built at 713-1, Myodenji-cho, Shijo-sagaru, Nishinotoin St., Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto.
This project will involve Mitsui Fudosan building a new extension building on a property it owns adjacent to the Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo.* Following completion of construction, Mitsui Fudosan Hotel Management Co., Ltd. will operate the hotel under integrated management as the Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo.
The project site offers outstanding transport access, being six minutes on foot from the Kyoto municipal subway Karasuma Line Shijo Station and the Hankyu Railway Kyoto Line Karasuma Station, for services running to sightseeing spots around the city and to Kyoto Station. This project will satisfy the tourism and leisure accommodation requirements of people from Japan and overseas.
Moreover, Mitsui Fudosan will continue the business activities of its existing buildings even when the extension construction work is being carried out. The opening of the extension building is scheduled for the spring of 2020.
Mitsui Fudosan Hotel Management currently operates 6,402 rooms in 25 facilities throughout Japan under Mitsui Garden Hotels, its upper middle-class lodging-focused hotel brand, and THE CELESTINE HOTELS, its high-class hotel brand.
In Kyoto, Mitsui Fudosan Hotel Management currently operates the Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo, Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Sanjo, Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shinmachi Bettei, and HOTEL THE CELESTINE KYOTO GION. Furthermore, the Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Station Front (Tentative Name) and the Kyoto Gojo Karasumacho Hotel Project (Tentative Name) are scheduled to open in the summer of 2020.
Going forward, the Mitsui Fudosan Group will actively engage in new developments in the Tokyo metropolitan area and main regional cities throughout Japan.
* Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo (Existing building): (278 rooms; opened in October 1997)
Project Overview
| Location |
713-1, Myodenji-cho, Shijo-sagaru, Nishinotoin St., Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto |
| Site Area |
Approx. 5,780 ft2 (536.72 m2) |
| Total Floor Area |
Approx. 27,990 ft2 (2,600.11 m2) |
| Structure |
Steel frame with 1 level below ground, 10 levels above ground |
| Total number of guest rooms (Extension building) |
69 (planned) |
| Architect and Builder |
Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co., Ltd. |
| Scheduled to Open |
Spring 2020 (planned) |
| Business Format |
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. will build a new extension building of the Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo on a property it owns. Following completion of construction, Mitsui Fudosan Hotel Management Co., Ltd. will operate the hotel in an integrated manner as the Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo. |
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