Imperial Hotel Kyoto's main building keeps its heritage listing, under a new name
Imperial Hotel, Ltd. says the Gion building it adaptively reused as its Kyoto property's main structure has retained its national heritage status, re-registered as the Former Yasaka Kaikan, after a preservation project that kept structural framing and salvaged more than a tenth of the original tiles by hand.
Imperial Hotel, Ltd. said the main building of its Kyoto property has kept its status as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property, following a July 9 decision by Japan's Council for Cultural Affairs to re-register it under a new name: Former Yasaka Kaikan. The company confirmed the change in an announcement dated Aug. 12.