Why you should experience Ginza Creston in Tokyo, Japan.
Ginza Creston is a panoramic high-rise hotel where Akashicho's riverfront geography, late twentieth-century architecture and layered urban history converge above the Sumida River.
Set along St. Luke's Street near the Sumida River and just steps from St. Luke's International Hospital, the hotel rises within the residential tower of St. Luke's Garden, a twin-building complex designed by Nikken Sekkei and Tokyu Architects & Engineers and completed in 1994. The development joined its office and residential towers through a bridge 110 meters above ground and an atrium built over an artificial platform connected with the Sumida River waterfront, embedding the hotel within an architectural composition conceived around the river. Ginza Creston occupies the upper portion of the residential tower, creating elevated sightlines across the Sumida River and the bridges, towers and reclaimed districts that define eastern Central Tokyo. The result is a hotel where Nikken Sekkei, Tokyu Architects & Engineers and St. Luke's Garden translate Akashicho's waterfront position into a distinctly vertical encounter with Tokyo.
What you should know about Ginza Creston.
Ginza Creston is best known for originating in June 1994 as Tokyo New Hankyu Hotel Tsukiji, extending the New Hankyu Hotel network into Tokyo during the same year St. Luke's Garden was completed in Akashicho. The original hotel formed part of the New Hankyu expansion that had begun beyond Osaka with Kyoto New Hankyu Hotel and subsequently produced properties across Japan, placing the Tsukiji operation within the national growth of a hospitality lineage ultimately absorbed into the Hankyu-Hanshin-Daiichi Hotel Group. Tokyo New Hankyu Hotel Tsukiji operated under that character for nearly nineteen years before the property was transferred and reopened as Ginza Creston on February 1, 2013, preserving its connection with the Hankyu-Hanshin-Daiichi network under a new name. The wider St. Luke's Garden project received the 1996 BCS Award from the Building Contractors Society, adding national architectural recognition to the complex housing the hotel only two years after its completion. The 1994 Tokyo New Hankyu debut, New Hankyu lineage, February 2013 succession, continuing Hankyu-Hanshin-Daiichi affiliation and BCS recognition establish Ginza Creston as a surviving hospitality component of one of Akashicho's defining postwar architectural projects.
HMI Hotel Group introduced another institutional chapter when Ginza Creston succeeded Tokyo New Hankyu Hotel Tsukiji in 2013, connecting the property with the Creston character while retaining its relationship with the Hankyu-Hanshin-Daiichi Hotel Group. Shabuzen subsequently became part of the hotel's culinary character through Shabuzen Ginza Creston, while Teppanyaki Kazan and Lounge Prashanti established three distinct dining concepts together on the property's elevated restaurant level. The continuing Hankyu-Hanshin-Daiichi affiliation places Ginza Creston within a network that counted 39 hotels and 10,491 rooms as of March 31, 2025, with the property classified among the group's franchise and affiliated operations. Together, HMI Hotel Group, Hankyu-Hanshin-Daiichi Hotel Group, Shabuzen, Teppanyaki Kazan and Lounge Prashanti extend the property's 1994 New Hankyu origins into a contemporary character shaped by corporate succession and named restaurant concepts while preserving the hotel established within St. Luke's Garden more than three decades ago.
How to fold Ginza Creston into your trip.
Ginza Creston works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing international medicine, architectural reinvention and riverfront culinary history through Akashicho and neighboring Tsukiji.
Begin at St. Luke's International Hospital, founded by American Episcopal missionary physician Rudolf Bolling Teusler in 1901 on a medical lineage reaching to an 1884 clinic associated with Rikkyo School, before Teusler established a nursing school in 1904 and developed the institution into one of modern Tokyo's formative centers of Western medicine. Continue to Tsukiji Hongwanji, whose congregation rebuilt on reclaimed land in 1679 after the Meireki fire, then commissioned architect Ito Chuta to create the present 1934 main hall after the Great Kanto Earthquake, producing an extraordinary synthesis of Buddhist forms inspired by India and wider Asia that became a National Important Cultural Property in 2014. Conclude at Tsukiji Jisaku, where chef Jisaku Honda opened his ryotei in 1931 inside a former Iwasaki family residence dating to 1899, establishing a restaurant whose signature chicken mizutaki has been transmitted through generations and whose surviving estate preserves another layer of Akashicho's waterfront history. The progression moves from Teusler's international medical institution through Ito Chuta's architectural reinvention into Jisaku Honda's culinary legacy, revealing the concentration of medicine, religion and hospitality surrounding Ginza Creston.
Where your story begins.
Foresyte Travel reveals places that feel extraordinary long before you arrive.
Experience premium editorial crafted for luxury travelers.
