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Toba Hotel International Marks Its 60th Founding Anniversary
Reopening on Monday, March 25, 2024
Started Accepting Reservations for the Commemorative Inaugural Accommodation Plan for Ocean View Suite with Club from January 12

January 12, 2024
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Ise-Shima Resort Management Co., Ltd.

Tokyo, Japan, January 12, 2024 – Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., a leading global real estate company headquartered in Tokyo, and Ise-Shima Resort Management Co., Ltd., a member of the Mitsui Fudosan Group, announced today that Toba Hotel International (Shima City, Mie Prefecture; 84 rooms) will reopen on March 25, 2024. In addition, the hotel will begin accepting reservations today.

Toba Hotel International first opened in 1964 to offer lodging services to visitors to Ise Jingu (Ise Grand Shrine). For more than half a century, the hotel has hosted many esteemed guests from Japan and abroad, including members of Japan’s Imperial Family. Over the years, the hotel has established a reputation as “Ise-Shima’s State Guesthouse” with the concept of “A Resort in the Sea of Pearls.” On March 7, 2024, the hotel will commemorate its 60th founding anniversary.

In this historic year, Toba Hotel International will completely renovate the entrance floor, including a terrace where all hotel guests can enjoy stunning panoramic views of Toba Bay and enjoy food unique to the Ise-Shima region. It will also open a new Club Lounge, with a focus on food unique to the hotel, which has woven a rich culinary tradition, and remodel guestrooms. With this renovation, guests will enjoy more appealing and restful accommodations than ever, along with the hotel’s outstanding hospitality and service.

Computer-generated (CG) image of Pearl Ocean Terrace

Overview of Renovation

1. A luxurious terrace where hotel guests can enjoy breathtaking panoramic views of Toba Bay and a hotel-made culinary experience
2. An entrance floor with an open-concept floor plan that allows guests to feel at one with Toba Bay from the minute they take their first step inside the hotel
3. A Club Lounge where hotel guests can enjoy food presentations unique to Toba Hotel International, which has woven a rich culinary tradition
4. Guestrooms have been updated with new furnishings and appointments, allowing guests to enjoy elegant moments while admiring expansive views of the Sea of Pearls

< Overview of Renovation >

1. A luxurious terrace where hotel guests can enjoy breathtaking panoramic views of Toba Bay and a hotel-made culinary experience

Toba Hotel International will open the Pearl Ocean Terrace, a luxurious outdoor terrace where guests can enjoy unobstructed ocean views from the hotel’s location at the tip of Cape Mondo on Toba Bay. Guests will take part in a culinary experience unique to the Ise-Shima region on the terrace, with options including drinks taken out from The Lobby Lounge on the same floor and hamburgers cooked from Mikumano beef raised in the Kumano district, which is surrounded by mountains and the sea. Guests can feel at one with nature’s changing faces, such as sea breezes, flickering fireplace flames, and the moon and starry sky.

CG image of Pearl Ocean Terrace

CG image of takeout food

2. An entrance floor with an open-concept floor plan that allows guests to feel at one with Toba Bay from the minute they take their first step inside the hotel

The hotel will completely renovate the interior design of the entrance hall, the front desk, and The Lobby Lounge, all of which are located on the entrance floor. This renovation seeks to deliver splendid views of Toba Bay, which is dotted with verdant islands, to all hotel patrons. Customers will be greeted at the front desk counter with a display of Ise Washi art by Satoshi Nagai, a traditional craftsman specializing in gold and silver foil. Guests can have lunch, seasonal afternoon tea, and hotel-made desserts in The Lobby Lounge, which will be double the size of its previous floor space, while admiring Toba Bay’s scenery through two huge windows facing the southeast. Before or after meals, they can also relax at the bar counter, which is fashioned of a single slab of Japanese horse chestnut from Mie Prefecture. Customers other than overnight guests are also welcome to use these facilities as they see fit.

CG image of entrance hall

CG image of front desk

CG image of The Lobby Lounge

CG image of bar

3. A Club Lounge where hotel guests can enjoy food presentations unique to Toba Hotel International, which has woven a rich culinary tradition

A Club Lounge with panoramic views of Toba Bay will be opened. Guests will be able to enjoy three food presentations each day. The food presentations will include hotel-made desserts, such as a heritage cheesecake with a time-honored preparation method maintained since the hotel’s inception, local sake served at the G7 Ise-Shima Summit, and dishes recreated from traditional recipes that have been loved for more than a half-century, with a focus on food ingredients from Mie Prefecture. It is hoped that guests will enjoy the lounge at their leisure as a second guestroom, where they may work as part of a working holiday or talk with loved ones, while gazing out at the islands in the sea and the ships that come and go.

* The Club Lounge is open only to guests staying in the Imperial Suite or Ocean View Suite with Club (as of January 12, 2024).

CG image of the Club Lounge

CG image of a food presentation

4．Guest rooms have been updated with new furnishings and appointments, allowing guests to enjoy elegant moments while admiring expansive views of the Sea of Pearls

The hotel will remodel its most popular Ocean View Suite, transforming it into the Ocean View Suite with Club and offering guests an even more pleasant stay. The beds and sofa will be positioned so that guests can enjoy views of the Toba Blue horizon, where sea and sky flow together, from anywhere in the room. The minibar will be stocked with alcoholic beverages and soft drinks, including local craft beers and Ise tea, which guests are welcome to enjoy. The double vanity counter, which can be used by two people at the same time, will have a Mikimoto Cosmetics skincare package and ReFa BEAUTECH DRYER SMART hair dryer from MTG Co., Ltd.’s ReFa beauty brand, allowing guests to enjoy a leisurely bath. Guests can take in breathtaking views that can only be seen from their room and elegant moments. Guests staying in the Ocean View Suite with Club can use the Club Lounge from check-in to check-out.

CG image of the Ocean View Suite with Club

CG image of the Ocean View Suite with Club

< Room Reservations >

1．About the Commemorative Inaugural Accommodation Plan for Ocean View Suite with Club

To celebrate the hotel’s 60th founding anniversary, a deluxe special accommodation plan will be available for ¥600,000 (pre-tax) for two guests, allowing them to experience all of the hotel’s hospitality and services, as well as what makes it appealing. This plan provides attractive special benefits that allow guests to fully enjoy their stay in Ise-Shima, including not only dinner featuring Ise lobster (Japanese spiny lobster), abalone, and Matsuzaka beef, but also a spa treatment and skincare box offered only to guests staying in the Ocean View Suite with Club. The spa treatment and skincare box are provided by Mikimoto Cosmetics, a member of the Mikimoto Group, which was the first in the world to successfully cultivate pearls. The hotel hopes that guests will unwind and relax at their leisure while enjoying the hospitality and service that it has created over the past 60 years.

2. Start of acceptance of reservations

The hotel will start accepting room reservations at the official Toba Hotel International website today. We hope that you have a pleasant stay at Toba Hotel International.

< About Toba Hotel International >

The Ise-Shima region, where the hotel is located, is also known as “Miketsukuni” in Japanese. This Japanese name reflects the region’s status as a gastronomic treasure trove and its long history of making special offerings of seafood to Japan’s Imperial Family and Imperial Court. The hotel’s main dining hall, The Sea Horse, serves resort-style French cuisine that can be enjoyed while taking in the splendor of the Sea of Pearls below. Toba Bay was named one of the 100 Landscapes of Japan, a list of the country’s most scenic sites. The hotel’s Japanese restaurant, Mondo Misaki, serves Mie Prefecture’s rich local foods in a luxurious ambiance, with dishes featuring fresh seafood bought by the restaurant’s chef at auction on Toshijima, an island in front of the hotel.

Furthermore, the hotel has facilities such as PEARL SPA by MIKIMOTO COSMETICS, an authentic pearl spa created by Mikimoto Cosmetics, a part of the Mikimoto Group, which was the first in the world to successfully cultivate pearls. Tokowaka no Yu, a large communal bath area at the adjoining Toba Hotel International Shiojitei, features not only hot springs baths and saunas, but also Japan’s first outdoor Pearl Aurora Bath, created for the hotel by Mikimoto Cosmetics. Guests can enjoy splendid moments filled with the bounties of pearls in a site rich in pearl cultivation heritage.

Facility photos

CG image of The Sea Horse main dining hall

CG image of an abalone dish at The Sea Horse main dining hall

PEARL SPA by MIKIMOTO COSMETICS

Pearl Aurora Bath at Shiojitei

Facility Overview of Toba Hotel International (after renovation)

Guestroom Composition

Map

Overview of Ise-Shima Resort Management Co., Ltd.

Overview of Ise-Shima Resort Management Co., Ltd. Ise-Shima Resort Management Co., Ltd. operates Toba Hotel International and Shiojitei in Toba City, Mie Prefecture, as well as NEMU RESORT in Shima City, Mie Prefecture.

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[ References ]
・Group Action Plan to Realize a Decarbonized Society
https://www.mitsuifudosan.co.jp/english/corporate/news/2021/1124/
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https://www.mitsuifudosan.co.jp/english/corporate/news/2023/0413/

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