Yokohama’s New Grand Hotel - MacArthur’s First Japanese Home

Romulo 'Mo' Ludan | August 23, 2007  | 0 comments  | Print  | E-mail

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Hotel New Grand: the old and the new.  The 18-story New Grand Tower was built in 1991 adjacent to the main building, which houses the MacArthur Suite.  Completed in 1927, the 5-story main building was designed by Jim Watanabe (1887-1973), who, by coincidence, also designed MacArthur’s  permanent HQ in Tokyo, the Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance headquarters.  Hotel is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year - zoom in on neon announcement atop the marquee.

Yamashita Park, Port of Yokohama.  A boy peers through the statue of two dancing girls. Behind him is Hotel New Grand.

Yamashita Park. The main building of Hotel New Grand is framed by the imposing 348-foot high steel Marine Tower (left), the world’s tallest lighthouse, and (right) by the Indian Water Fountain, donated by the city of San Diego. Pergola and gingko trees in background survived the war.

Yamashita Park, Yokohama Harbor as seen from Hotel New Grand.

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