Shinagawa Prince Hotel

A four-tower hotel complex in Takanawa, Minato City, steps from JR Shinagawa Station. Built across four decades from 1978 to 2002, the complex is anchored by the 39-story Main Tower completed in December 1994 and holds a combined 3,679 guest rooms.

Use

Office tower

Area

Minato City

Completed

1994

Floors

39 above ground

Developer

Seibu Real Estate

Four Towers, One Hotel, Forty Years of Growth

Shinagawa Prince Hotel occupies a prominent site at Takanawa 4-10-30, Minato City, Tokyo — just minutes on foot from JR Shinagawa Station. What makes it unusual among Tokyo’s major hotels is its layered chronology: four separate towers built across four decades, each a chapter in the expansion of one of Japan’s largest hotel complexes. The original East Tower opened in 1978; the N Tower followed in 1986 at 17 stories; the Main Tower, rising 39 floors, opened in December 1994; and the Annex Tower was completed in 2002 at 32 stories. The complex is operated by Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide and developed by Seibu Real Estate, holding a combined 3,679 guest rooms.

The Main Tower, completed in 1994, is the tallest of the four and defines the skyline silhouette visible from the Shinagawa station approach. Its height placed it among the taller structures in the station neighborhood at the time of completion — a period when large-scale redevelopment projects were gathering momentum throughout the Shinagawa and Tamachi corridor.

A Self-Contained City within the Hotel Grounds

One of Shinagawa Prince Hotel’s most distinctive attributes is the range of amenities contained within its own grounds. Alongside the guest rooms, the complex houses a concert hall, a multiplex cinema, a bowling alley, and an indoor aquarium. Visitors can spend an evening — or an entire stay — moving between entertainment facilities without stepping outside the property boundary.

This concentration of leisure facilities alongside a major shinkansen hub gave Shinagawa Prince Hotel an early version of the resort-hotel proposition that has since become widespread in Tokyo. Nearby, the Shinagawa Intercity development of the late 1990s extended the same logic to mixed-use office towers, signaling the continued transformation of the Shinagawa district into one of Tokyo’s most dynamic rail-anchored hubs.

Summary

Shinagawa Prince Hotel has grown from its 1978 East Tower origins to a four-tower complex with 3,679 rooms, anchored by the 39-story Main Tower completed in December 1994. Developed by Seibu Real Estate and operated by Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide, it sits steps from JR Shinagawa Station — one of Tokyo’s premier shinkansen gateways and a natural base for visitors arriving from Haneda Airport or traveling the Tokaido corridor.