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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Yokohama InterContinental The Grand Hotel

Above, a view of the Yokohama InterContinental The Grand Hotel (at left) from the Landmark Tower.
  Photo by Armand Vaquer.
The rounded (or crescent-shaped) Yokohama InterContinental The Grand Hotel was featured (and blasted by Godzilla) in 1992's Godzilla vs. Mothra.

Despite this, all websites (that I have found) mentioning the hotel's year of completion state it was built in 1998!  Maybe they all meant 1988?

The design was to resemble a yacht's billowing sail.  The hotel is located in Yokohama's Minato Mirai area and is in close proximity to the Cosmo World amusement park.

Above, the InterContinental The Grand Hotel and Cosmo World.  Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The hotel contains 593 air-conditioned guestrooms.  Depending upon your booking source, room rates rage from $105 to $138, which is quite reasonable for a hotel of this size and location.

Yokohama's role in kaiju history is covered in The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan on pages 19-20.

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