With an incomparable perspective on the city and a singular, moat-side setting just opposite the Imperial Palace gardens, the Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Palace Hotel Tokyo is a haven of hospitality – serene and refined, and imbued with understated luxury throughout.

Officially opened on 1 October 1961 and celebrated with a gala reception attended by prominent figures from throughout Japan and overseas, the privately owned and managed hotel was the first in Tokyo to share premises with an office building.

Hotel Teito, the first hotel to occupy the site that is now 1-1-1 Marunouchi, opened in 1947 as a nationally owned and operated hotel under the orders of the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces.

The western-inspired structure had originally been built as the Forestry Office of the Imperial Household before being converted into a hotel due to the high demand for accommodations in post-war Tokyo for the many buying agents and diplomats arriving overseas to re-establish ties with Japan and help the country rebuild.