Why you should experience Oakwood Hotel & Apartments Azabu Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan.
Oakwood Hotel & Apartments Azabu Tokyo is a cosmopolitan residential hotel where Higashiazabu's international character, Azabujuban's merchant culture, Japanese design language and contemporary extended-stay hospitality converge beneath the Tokyo Tower skyline.
Set along Azabu-dori near Sakurada-dori and just steps from Azabujuban Station, the nine-storey property was developed by Mitsui Fudosan Residential on an 2,006-square-meter site, creating the developer's first hotel-licensed serviced-apartment project and a new hospitality expression within its residential business. LIV ARCHITECTS designed the exterior around an asanoha hemp-leaf motif, producing three-dimensional façade panels whose appearance changes with viewing angle while balcony lighting alters the composition after dark. Mitsui Designtec carried the local design language indoors through “AZABU INSPIRATION, The Changing Scenery of Azabu,” commissioning designer SAL to layer concealed hemp-leaf geometry with cherry blossom, rose, maple and pine imagery representing the four seasons across the reception artwork. The result connects Mitsui Fudosan Residential, LIV ARCHITECTS, Mitsui Designtec and SAL through a progression from development to architecture, interiors and art, with each practitioner interpreting Azabu through a different scale of design.
What you should know about Oakwood Hotel & Apartments Azabu Tokyo.
Oakwood Hotel & Apartments Azabu Tokyo is best known for opening on January 14, 2022 as Mitsui Fudosan Residential's first hotel-licensed serviced-apartment development and Oakwood's thirteenth property in Japan, joining two companies with fundamentally different institutional histories around a 171-apartment Tokyo project. Oakwood brought a serviced-residence lineage dating to 1969 and, by December 2021, managed 13,304 units across an international portfolio, while Mitsui Fudosan Residential contributed planning, development and quality-control expertise accumulated through its housing businesses. The Azabu opening also became Oakwood's third Japanese debut developed with Mitsui Fudosan Residential within eighteen months, following Oakwood Suites Yokohama and Oakwood Hotel Kyoto Oike, establishing a rapid partnership spanning Yokohama, Kyoto and Tokyo. Mitsui Fudosan Residential and Oakwood created a developer-to-operator chain in which residential development expertise entered hotel licensing while an established serviced-residence company expanded its Japanese network through three successive properties.
Sumitomo Mitsui Construction added an engineering chapter by selecting the building for the first use of Sustain WALL Zero, a precision design panel manufactured with the company's Sustain-Crete concrete and installed around exterior mechanical areas. Sustain-Crete eliminates Portland cement from the formulation and was engineered around ultra-low shrinkage, ultra-low heat generation, reduced carbon impact, high fluidity and high strength, turning a façade component into an early application of the contractor's materials research. Oakwood's institutional trajectory changed again only months after the Azabu opening when CapitaLand Investment's lodging arm, The Ascott Limited, agreed to acquire Oakwood Worldwide in July 2022, adding Oakwood's five-decade brand heritage to Ascott's global serviced-residence platform. Sumitomo Mitsui Construction, Sustain-Crete, CapitaLand Investment and The Ascott Limited consequently extend the property's opening story into two distinct directions, materials engineering and corporate consolidation, giving the 2022 debut significance within both Japanese construction research and the evolving international serviced-residence industry.
How to fold Oakwood Hotel & Apartments Azabu Tokyo into your trip.
Oakwood Hotel & Apartments Azabu Tokyo works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing how Buddhist diplomacy, postwar broadcasting and contemporary art reshaped the cultural territory surrounding Azabu.
Begin at Zenpukuji Temple, where a Buddhist institution traditionally associated with Kukai later entered the diplomatic history of the Bakumatsu when Townsend Harris established the first United States legation in Tokyo there in 1859, binding Azabu to the opening of formal American representation in Japan. Continue to Tokyo Tower, where architect and engineer Tachu Naito worked with Nikken Sekkei on the 333-meter broadcasting tower completed in 1958, creating the steel infrastructure required by Japan's rapidly expanding postwar television industry while establishing one of the defining forms of the capital's new skyline. Conclude at Azabudai Hills Gallery, where Mori Building opened its principal cultural venue in November 2023 with an inaugural exhibition by Olafur Eliasson curated by Mori Art Museum, including the 20-meter Your split second house alongside new works examining light, water, geometry and movement. The progression moves from Townsend Harris and Zenpukuji's nineteenth-century diplomacy through Naito and Nikken Sekkei's broadcasting architecture into Mori Building, Mori Art Museum and Eliasson's contemporary cultural program, revealing successive moments when the territory surrounding Oakwood Hotel & Apartments Azabu Tokyo became a platform for international exchange.
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