Marriott Rebrands Gotenyama Garden Hotel Laforet Tokyo

Marriott has expanded its portfolio of hotels in Japan with the opening of the Tokyo Marriott Hotel on a hilltop address known locally as Gotenyama.

The hotel is the company’s 12th in Japan, and the third under its flagship Marriott Hotels brand, which comprises 500 properties in nearly 60 countries.

Just minutes from the capital’s bullet-train serviced Shinagawa Station, the 249-room hotel enables easy access to the Tokaido bullet train, as well as Haneda Airport and the Yamanote Line circling central Tokyo.

A rebranding of the former Gotenyama Garden Hotel Laforet Tokyo, the extensively refurbished and renovated property is operated by Mori Trust Hotels & Resorts, which entered into a management agreement with Marriott International in February of this year.

Miwako Date, president of Mori Trust Hotels & Resorts, said, “Both former and new guests alike will find much to discover about Gotenyama, which has a long and illustrious past as a center of tea culture and other aesthetic pursuits. We look forward to blending the unique traditional elements of this setting with the many exciting innovations Marriott is bringing to the guest experience. There is no doubt in my mind that Tokyo Marriott Hotel will be a destination loved by domestic and international guests alike.”

Tokyo Marriott Hotel shares its hilltop location with Gotenyama Garden, a 6,800-square-meter oasis of green and the former site of the residential villa of Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604–1651).

Steeped in history, and yet less than 20 minutes from the luxury shops of Ginza and the nightlife of Roppongi, its location offers both first-time and repeat visitors plenty to explore.