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With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics creeping closer, a cache of hotels is opening in the city to house this anticipated flood of visitors. But not all are new – some are reviving defunct landmarks in the Japanese capital, like K5 Hotel which transforms a 1920s bank.
Stockholm practice Claesson Koivisto Rune designed the 20-room boutique hotel, which and includes a restaurant, coffee shop, bar and beer hall. Following the theme of ‘nature in the city’, interiors blend Eastern and Western influences and are designed to ‘stimulate the five senses.’
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Spaces have natural fibres, Shoji-inspired windows, bespoke wooden furniture and a moody, organically-inspired colour palette. Traces of the building’s banking past are integrated into its adaptive reuse, with concrete flooring supplemented by Japanese coverings and parquet.
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Meanwhile, Switch coffee bar has raw walls softened offset by hundreds of verdant plants to create a micro-jungle.
K5’s Caveman restaurant – a new outpost by the team behind Tokyo’s Kabi – and Ao bar are also of note: the latter’s hedonistic design combines a library salon with a Kabutocho bar that pays homage to Eiichi Shibusawa, the ‘Father of Japanese Capitalism.’
Bedrooms – which start from around $200 per night – are surprisingly spacious for Tokyo standards, ranging from 20-80 sq m. That’s bigger than many apartments in the vertical city.
3−5 Nihonbashi Kabuto-cho Chuo Ward, Tokyo 103-0026, Japan
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