Word: otani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene has been well prepared. Tokyo officials feared that there would not be enough hotel space for all the visitors, so they pumped $93 million in loans into the city's hotel industry. Two new hotels-the Otani, with a revolving cocktail lounge on its roof, and the Tokyo Prince -boast 1,600 rooms between them, to add to the facilities of the huge new Okura and Tokyo Hilton hotels. In addition, eight ships will anchor in Tokyo Harbor to provide floating accommodations. Other tourists will be housed at Kakone, the coolly beautiful mountain resort 58 miles west...
...have included enough public toilets in the original building plans), and in the hope of stopping a practice that might offend foreign guests, posters are going up in the subways, pleading: "Let's refrain from urinating in public." The $19.4 million Shiba Prince Hotel and the $38 million Otani Hotel are racing to join the already finished Tokyo Hilton and Okura...