Japanese hotel that hosted last four emperors offering rooms for fraction of their regular price

Nov 30, 2019 | News On Japan

Nov 30, 2019 (soranews24.com) - The Nara Hotel offers royal-class hospitality, but right now you wonâ€™t have to pay a kingâ€™s ransom to experience it.

As you can probably imagine, when Japanâ€™s royal family travels, it travels in style, and for generations, those stylish travels have gone through the Nara Hotel. In addition to Japanâ€™s currently reigning monarch, Naruhito, the Nara Hotel welcomed the previous three emperors, as well as kings, queens, princes, princesses, presidents and prime ministers of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, India, the Netherlands, Spain, the U.S., and numerous other nations.

So as you can also probably imagine, the Nara Hotel (which is, of course, located in the city of Nara, Japanâ€™s pre-Kyoto capital) isnâ€™t exactly what youâ€™d call budget accommodation. Maintaining the mix of classic Japanese and Western aesthetics that itâ€™s had since opening over a century ago, while adding modern luxury and comfort, means the Nara Hotel commands high prices, and you can usually expect to spend at least 30,000 yen (US$280) a night if you want to experience its royal-level service and amenities.

However, thanks to an amazing deal going on right now you can stay in the Nara Hotel for a fraction of its regular rate.The Nara Hotel opened in the 42nd year of the Meiji era. That converts to 1909 in the Western calendar, so right now itâ€™s currently celebrating its 110th anniversary, and doing so by lowering its starting room rate on select nights to just 11,000 yen (US$102), and that includes all taxes and service charges.

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