Japan

Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan opens in Hayakawa — the oldest continuously operating lodging in the world

Nishiki is granted rights as a fish wholesale market in Kyoto ⚑ trade on the street is recorded from the fourteenth century Nishiki Market

Mitsui Takatoshi opens Echigoya on the busiest merchant street in Edo, in a rented shopfront a ken and a half wide Mitsukoshi

Mitsui Takatoshi opens Echigoya in Edo, selling cash at fixed prices and cloth by the length Mitsukoshi

Fire moves Echigoya to Surugachō and Takatoshi announces 現銀掛値なし — cash on the counter, one price for everyone. The fixed price, 169 years before Le Bon Marché Mitsukoshi

The Tawaraya opens in Kyoto; eleven generations of one family have run it

Hoshi Ryokan — recorded founding

Nadaya Mansuke opens the parent restaurant of Nadaman in Osaka Nadaman

Iida Shinshichi opens Takashimaya in Kyoto, dealing in used clothing and cotton Takashimaya

Iida Shinshichi opens Takashimaya in Kyoto on 10 January Takashimaya

Zenichiro Kanaya opens a samurai house at Nikko to foreign guests

The Fujiya opens at Hakone, one of the first Western-style hotels in Japan

Isetan opens in Tokyo Isetan

Isetan opens in Kanda, Tokyo Isetan

The Imperial Hotel opens in Tokyo; Frank Lloyd Wright's building follows in 1923

The Imperial Hotel opens in Tokyo; Frank Lloyd Wright's building follows in 1923 Imperial Hotel, Japan

Mitsukoshi abolishes the zauri system and turns Nihonbashi into display space Mitsukoshi

Echigoya becomes Mitsukoshi, a department store Mitsukoshi

Mitsukoshi issues its Department Store Proclamation — the first department store in Japan Mitsukoshi

The Nara Hotel opens, built by the Japanese government railways

The Tokyo Station Hotel opens inside the new Marunouchi terminus

The Halekulani opens at Waikiki Halekulani

Yuki Teiichi opens a room 1.8m wide in Osaka — Kitcho Kitcho

Yuki Teiichi invents the Shōkadō bento from a tea utensil Kitcho

Tsukiji opens as Tokyo's central wholesale market after the Great Kantō earthquake destroyed Nihonbashi Tsukiji Outer Market

The Asaka-no-miya summer villa at Karuizawa is sold to Tsutsumi Yasujirō and reopens as the Prince Hotel — the chain takes its name from the princes whose land it bought Seibu Prince — The Prince

Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa opens on the site of the Takeda-no-miya residence, the first hotel built on land bought from a family stripped of its title Seibu Prince — The Prince

Akasaka Prince Hotel opens with thirty rooms on the former estate of Prince Yi Un, the last crown prince of Korea Seibu Prince — The Prince

Seibu opens the first Prince Hotel in Tokyo Seibu Prince — The Prince

Laurance Rockefeller takes a 99-year lease on Parker Ranch land at Kauna‘oa Bay — no road, no power, no fresh water Prince Resorts Hawaii — Mauna Kea

The Palace Hotel opens facing the Imperial Palace moat in Tokyo

The Okura opens in Tokyo, built for the 1964 Olympics with the Orient's own modernism

The Okura opens in Tokyo and gives the group its name Okura Hotels & Resorts

The Okura opens in Tokyo, the house Baron Kishichiro Okura's family built Okura Hotels & Resorts

Tokyo Prince Hotel opens on ground that held the graves of Tokugawa shoguns, whose bodies were moved to Zōjō-ji Seibu Prince — The Prince

The New Otani opens in Tokyo for the Olympic Games New Otani Hotels

Laurance Rockefeller opens Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Kohala coast Prince Resorts Hawaii — Mauna Kea

Mauna Kea Beach Hotel opens in July with 154 rooms for $15 million, the most expensive hotel built to that date, and the first art collection assembled for any hotel anywhere Prince Resorts Hawaii — Mauna Kea

Nadaman opens inside the Imperial Hotel Tokyo Nadaman

Japan Airlines opens the first Hotel Nikko Nikko Hotels International

Sazanka-sō becomes Nadaman's head branch, in the Hotel New Otani's samurai garden Nadaman

Yoshiharu Hoshino's family business adopts the Hoshino Resorts identity Hoshino Resorts

Roppongi Hills opens in Tokyo on 25 April, seventeen years after it was conceived Roppongi Hills, Tokyo

HOSHINOYA launches with HOSHINOYA Karuizawa Hoshinoya

Isetan and Mitsukoshi combine; the younger house is named first Isetan

Espacio opens as a Mexican luxury collection Espacio

Seven Stars in Kyushu enters service — Japan's first luxury sleeper train Seven Stars in Kyushu

The Asahi Group acquires Nadaman Nadaman

Aman Tokyo opens in the Otemachi Tower — the brand's first city house, in the year control passed from Zecha to Doronin

FUFU opens at Kawaguchiko under Mount Fuji FUFU

Train Suite Shiki-shima begins running from Ueno Train Suite Shiki-shima

Twilight Express Mizukaze enters service in western Japan Twilight Express Mizukaze

The wholesale trade moves to Toyosu; the Tsukiji outer market stays on its historic site Tsukiji Outer Market

The first phase of Hudson Yards opens in New York Hudson Yards, New York

HOTEL THE MITSUI opens in Kyoto on land the family held for 250 years Mitsui (HOTEL THE MITSUI)

Azumi Setoda opens in a 140-year-old merchant house on Ikuchijima

Bulgari opens in Tokyo on the top floors of the Yaesu tower

Azabudai Hills opens in Tokyo Azabudai Hills, Tokyo