Why you should experience BELLUSTAR TOKYO, A Pan Pacific Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
BELLUSTAR TOKYO, A Pan Pacific Hotel is a soaring design hotel where Kabukicho's entertainment culture, contemporary Japanese art and architectural performance converge at the summit of one of Shinjuku's most ambitious vertical developments.
Set along Kabukicho Sakura-dori near Yasukuni-dori and just steps from Seibu-Shinjuku Station, the hotel crowns the 225-meter Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, whose architecture was developed by Kume Sekkei and Tokyu Architects & Engineers with Yuko Nagayama & Associates responsible for its defining facade and selected interiors. Nagayama conceived the tower through the memory of the Kani-gawa watercourse and fountain once associated with the site, translating water into ceramic-printed waves, gradient arches and a crown whose rising forms evoke a fountain spraying into the sky. The hotel continues that artistic language through works by Noe Aoki, Sumiko Sawamura, Shinji Ohmaki, Mayumi Hosokura, Nobuyoshi Araki, Rinko Kawauchi and Daido Moriyama, embedding contemporary Japanese artists across its upper floors. The result is a hotel where Yuko Nagayama, Noe Aoki and Shinji Ohmaki transform Kabukicho's history of performance into a contemporary synthesis of architecture, art and Tokyo skyline.
What you should know about BELLUSTAR TOKYO.
BELLUSTAR TOKYO, A Pan Pacific Hotel is best known for opening on May 19, 2023 as the luxury hotel crowning Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, created through a partnership between Tokyu Hotels and Singapore-based Pan Pacific Hotels Group as the latter expanded its Japanese presence into Shinjuku. Tokyu Hotels signed the Pan Pacific soft-brand agreement in August 2022 and appointed Katsushi Nishikawa general manager, positioning BELLUSTAR TOKYO alongside HOTEL GROOVE SHINJUKU as two distinct hospitality concepts within the same entertainment-focused tower. The host building subsequently entered the Japan Institute of Architects' 2024 selection of 100 outstanding works, with the JIA crediting Hiroshi Inoue, Tatsuya Koike, Ryoichi Yoshioka, Ei Katayama and Shinnosuke Hoshikawa of Kume Sekkei alongside Tokyu Architects & Engineers and Yuko Nagayama for the 225-meter project. International hotel recognition followed when BELLUSTAR TOKYO received its first MICHELIN Key in 2024 and retained One MICHELIN Key in the guide's 2025 global selection. The May 2023 debut, Tokyu Hotels and Pan Pacific Hotels Group partnership, Katsushi Nishikawa leadership, JIA architectural selection and consecutive MICHELIN Key recognition established BELLUSTAR TOKYO as a rapidly recognized luxury-hospitality component of Kabukicho's contemporary reinvention.
Keiji Ashizawa Design and Copenhagen-based Norm Architects developed another major strand of the property's authorship through Karimoku Case Study 09, transforming BELLUSTAR TOKYO into the furniture brand's most comprehensive case study when it debuted in 2023. Karimoku Furniture manufactured bespoke pieces developed by Keiji Ashizawa and Norm Architects for the hotel, while furniture by Norman Foster entered Restaurant Bellustar, connecting Japanese woodworking with three internationally recognized design practices inside a single hospitality project. Keiji Ashizawa shaped Restaurant Bellustar around a soaring 13-meter volume, and chef Munehiro Takesue subsequently carried the restaurant's authorship into gastronomy after training at a three-MICHELIN-starred restaurant in Paris as part of the BELLUSTAR TOKYO opening team before assuming leadership of its modern French kitchen. Together, Keiji Ashizawa, Norm Architects, Karimoku Furniture, Norman Foster and Munehiro Takesue extend BELLUSTAR TOKYO's architectural character into furniture and cuisine, creating a coherent lineage of named practitioners whose work connects contemporary Japanese craftsmanship with international design culture.
How to fold BELLUSTAR TOKYO into your trip.
BELLUSTAR TOKYO, A Pan Pacific Hotel works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing sacred history, modern Japanese art and the entertainment culture that has repeatedly reinvented Shinjuku.
Begin at Hanazono Shrine, whose history in Shinjuku reaches into the Edo period and whose enduring relationship with performers and entertainers gives its position beside Kabukicho particular cultural resonance, with the annual Tori-no-Ichi continuing to animate the shrine grounds with lanterns, stalls and ceremonial kumade. Continue to Sompo Museum of Art, whose collection is inseparable from Seiji Togo and Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance, culminating in the institution's acquisition of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers at Christie's in London in 1987 for £24.75 million, then the highest auction price ever paid for a painting. Conclude at Shinjuku Suehirotei, a surviving yose theater whose entertainment lineage reaches to 1897 and whose present 1946 building continues the intimate performance traditions of rakugo, manzai and traditional comic storytelling within modern Shinjuku. The progression moves from Hanazono Shrine's relationship with performers through Seiji Togo and Van Gogh's institutional art history into Shinjuku Suehirotei's living stage tradition, revealing the sacred, artistic and theatrical culture surrounding BELLUSTAR TOKYO beyond the performance of Kabukicho.
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