Japanese Brand Hotel Okura has Signed to Launch in Vladivostok, Russia

Main Photo: The proposed new Hotel Okura in Vladivostok

Date: January 2021

Location: Zoltoy Rog Bay, Near the Golden Bridge, Vladivostok, Russia

Name: The Hotel Okura Vladivostok – opening 2021

No. of Keys: 221

Seller: TBA

Buyer: Okura Nikko Hotel Management has announced it will open the Hotel Okura Vladivostok, the first Japanese-run hotel in the Russian Pacific port city, in the second half of 2021. Okura Nikko Hotel Management Co., Ltd. and Joint Stock Company Mnogofunkcionalnii Gostinichnii Kompleks Zolotoi Rog signed an agreement covering the operation of the new property on December 29, 2020.

Hotel Okura Vladivostok will be located near the Golden Bridge, a popular tourist attraction from which visitors can enjoy beautiful views of the Zolotoy Rog, a sheltered horn-shaped bay on the Sea of Japan, and the surrounding scenery. It will offer 221 guest rooms each about 40 square meters in size, including 31 suites. There will be a restaurant serving Japanese cuisine featuring a sushi counter and private dining rooms, as well as a teppanyaki restaurant and an all-day dining restaurant. The hotel will additionally offer a large banquet hall, an executive lounge and spa facilities.

Vladivostok, an important commercial port on the Pacific Ocean, is just a 2.5 hour flight from Tokyo. With its exotic landscape, the city is famous for being Russia’s gateway to Eurasia yet relatively close to Japan. Surrounded by the sea on three sides, it is a hub for railway, ocean and aviation traffic as well as the eastern starting point of the world-famous Trans-Siberian Railway.

Since August 2017, Japanese citizens have been able to visit the Russian coastal region that includes Vladivostok with just an electronic visa. As a result, the number of visitors from Japan rose to more than 20,000 in 2018, and in 2019, visitor numbers were on the rise with 1.7 times or 35,000 more visitors than in 2018. Vladivostok is an important city in the development of the Russian Far East, which President Putin has made a key element of the country’s overall development.

Following former Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s sharing of his proposed plan for economic cooperation between Russia and Japan with Russia’s President Putin in 2016, various business initiatives are underway in both countries.

The total floor space is around 39,000 sqm, over 16 floors.

THPT Comment: The Hotel Okura company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Tokyo and opened its flagship hotel, Hotel Okura Tokyo, in 1962. They acquired Nikko hotels from Japan Air Lines in 2010…. Okura Hotels & Resorts has a network of 25 hotels with a total of 7,774 guest rooms in and outside Japan. With Nikko, that gives them a total of some 75 hotels…and growing.

First Seen: Hospitality Net

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