Andaz Tokyo has a website now... (Pre-opening discussion)
 

Coming Summer 2014

http://tokyo.andaz.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html

Some unofficial photos:

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/bluestyle...5/352ed9ff.jpg
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http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/bluestyle...f/3f30caed.jpg

What is the tunnel for? Vehicles or ... ?

-David

In an engineering first for the city, an underground tunnel will place a portion of the Loop Road No. 2 arterial road beneath the more than four acre Toranomon site, thereby freeing up the tower’s immediate environs for people-friendly plazas, community pathways, and open vistas. The Shinbashi-Toranomon section of Loop Road No. 2 is scheduled to open to traffic in spring 2014; it is slated to connect with the Wangan-sen Bayshore Route and other traffic networks serving Haneda Airport and the seaport area in 2017.

http://investors.hyatt.com/phoenix.z...cle&id=1767243

Who would want to stay there??

IMHO the location is... bad. And Andaz?

Sorry, not in Tokyo. Good luck!

very cool. thanks!

-David

Wonder if they will accept reservations in time to use a suite upgrade cert before they expire in February 2014...

+1 Can't wait for a suite as well.

Whatever the opening date for reservations will be, one would hope it will be handled better than what we're hearing about the Andaz Maui.

A little birdie told me that the GM of Andaz Liverpool is in Japan now for the Andaz TYO.

Oh and BTW I'll be staying here 100000% if the rates are right as it's 12 minutes walking to Suntory Hall!! ^^^^^ :D

AWESOME!

I can confirm that this news is correct. This will be the third French Hyatt GM in Tokyo.

This is the MacArthur Highway, which has been in the planning and construction phase since the late 1940s. It took them well over 30 years to buy out all the properties that needed to be demolished in order to build the highway. Apparently eminent domain is not big in Japan, unlike Alphaville.

Yums! Def give the hotel a try next time I'm there and if it's open by then. ^

Nice new Hyatt property closer to Haneda, away from Shinjuku where the HR and PH are at. Seems the hotel (located in Toranomon Hills) is developed by same company that develops Roppongi Hills and the GH Tokyo?

I hope to be able to book a suite for the first week. We'll see. I'm very excited! The Andaz is now coming up in reservation searches, but it looks like it's not yet accepting reservations.