The Hotel Okura, built in 1962 in time for the 1964 Olympics, is slated to be torn down in September to make way for a bigger, fancier Okura, in time for the 2020 Olympics. (The less-good, less-famous southern wing of the old Okura, added in 1973, will be allowed to stay.) [...]
There will never be this particular hush again in the middle of Tokyo. You will have to have been there to know what you will soon miss.
— nytimes.com
Previously: Farewell to the Old Okura
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I had the good fortune of being there just 10 days ago. The most astonishing thing was how well the rooms had been preserved over the years. Their age is only apparent in the vocabulary of their textures and forms. Totally incongruous to the indifference described in the article, and yet...
I'll be in Tokyo in October — unfortunately slightly too late to still visit it.
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