ANA InterContinental Tokyo

A 36-story, 132.9 m luxury hotel tower completed in 1986 in Akasaka, Tokyo. Developed by All Nippon Airways and operated under the IHG InterContinental brand, it occupies a prominent hilltop site near the national government district.

Use

Office tower

Area

Minato City

Completed

1986

Floors

36 above ground, 4 below

Height

132.9 m

Developer

All Nippon Airways (ANA)

ANA’s Flagship Hotel on the Akasaka Hillside

Walk south from Tameike-Sanno Station along the Sakurada-dori avenue and the ground begins to rise — a reminder that Akasaka sits on one of central Tokyo’s many low hills. At the crest of that rise stands the ANA InterContinental Tokyo, a 36-floor, 132.9-metre hotel tower completed in 1986. All Nippon Airways (ANA) developed the property, bringing its aviation-derived brand of hospitality to one of the capital’s most politically connected neighbourhoods. The hotel operates today under the IHG InterContinental franchise, a partnership that has kept it in the premium tier of Tokyo’s hotel market for nearly four decades.

The address — 1-12-33 Akasaka, Minato City — places the building within easy reach of the National Diet, the Prime Minister’s residence, and a cluster of foreign embassies. That proximity to the machinery of Japanese governance has made the hotel a natural gathering place for summits, receptions, and bilateral meetings. Guest rooms in the upper floors look out over rooftops toward Tokyo Bay to the south-east and the Shinjuku skyscrapers to the north-west.

Akasaka’s Evolving Skyline

When the tower opened in 1986, the Akasaka and Tameike-Sanno area was already well established as a centre of corporate and diplomatic life, but its built environment was a patchwork of postwar blocks. The decades since have brought substantial new development: the Ark Mori Building, Akasaka Biz Tower, and Akasaka InterCity AIR now share the skyline with the ANA InterContinental, giving the district the dense, layered quality of a true global business district. Against that newer backdrop, the 1986 tower reads as the area’s pioneering high-rise, the first to signal that Akasaka could hold its own alongside Shinjuku and Marunouchi.

Summary

The ANA InterContinental Tokyo was completed in 1986 — 36 floors, 132.9 metres — and has operated as one of the capital’s premier hotel addresses ever since. Developed by All Nippon Airways and situated between the government quarter and the commercial energy of Akasaka, it occupies a position that is as much geopolitical as geographical. A walk through the neighbourhood rewards the attentive visitor with a compressed history of Tokyo’s postwar high-rise ambitions.

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