Iconic Okura hotel in Tokyo reopens main building before Olympics

TOKYO - A luxury hotel in central Tokyo known for the Okura lobby much loved by visitors for its classic Japanese ambience reopened its main building Thursday after four years of construction ahead of the Olympic and Paralympic Games next year in Japan.The Okura Tokyo has reused much of the original decor from its old main building's lobby, which was considered a Japanese modernist masterpiece, for its new lobby area."I challenged myself not only to recreate the lobby my father created, but to make it even greater," Yoshio Taniguchi, the 81-year-old designer of the new hotel building, said …READ FULL ARTICLE