ストリングスホテル東京Strings Hotel Tokyo

"An oasis above the city"

The Strings Hotel Tokyo, located on the 26th to 32nd floors of Shinagawa East One Tower, was the first of many hotels built at the top of high-rise buildings that have been built since 2000. East One Tower was required to have a hotel because the redevelopment district plan required that a certain percentage of the area be devoted to non-office uses. Likewise, in urban redevelopment projects that began to gain momentum in major metropolitan areas around the same time, the extra floor space would be spent for uses other than offices, such as commercial facilities, housing, and hotels.

At East One Tower, the office floors are placed on top of a 3,500 square meter office floor, and the space above, where the office core in the center of the square disappears, is planned as a huge atrium, an "oasis floating above the city," a place of relaxation amidst the bustle of the city. Visitors are welcomed to the 26th floor by a shuttle elevator and see the restaurant floating on the water in the center of the atrium, which is about 35 meters square and seven stories high, exquisitely proportioned, with natural light streaming in from the top light on the roof. The guest rooms are equipped with a unit bath with only a bathtub and a washbasin, incorporating the advantages of the Japanese style bathrooms that were revolutionary at the time, and the washbasin counter and toilet are placed in front of the unit bath. This bathroom configuration has since increased rapidly, and has become a common solution in most domestic luxury hotels.