Hotel Gracery is one of the most distinctive hotels in Shinjuku. Not only is it located in a neck-straining tower smack dab in the middle of the Kabukicho entertainment district, a life-sized bust of Godzilla looks out over the city from the eighth floor.
Hotel Gracery Shinjuku
Hotel Gracery Shinjuku
The house-sized landmark is a tribute to the legendary movie monster and production company Toho Co., which operates a 12-screen cinema and IMAX theater in the same complex.
Godzilla looks out over Kabukicho from Hotel Gracery
Part of the Washington Hotels Group, Hotel Gracery is a massive mid-range hotel that opened in 2015. With nearly 1,000 rooms, it adds enormous capacity to the Kabukicho area, which is located a few blocks north of JR Shinjuku Station.
Godzilla movie posters along the hallway leading to the lobby
Hotel Gracery begins on the eighth floor of the tower and is accessed by an exclusive elevator at the back of the building. A hallway leading to the lobby features movie posters from the Godzilla series.
Hotel Gracery Shinjuku front desk
Hotel lounge with reading material by the lobby
Guest Rooms
A five-minute walk from JR Shinjuku Station or three minutes from Seibu-Shinjuku Station, Hotel Gracery’s 970 rooms come in single, double, twin and triple versions ranging in size from 18 to 32 square meters.
A standard double room
A deluxe twin room at Hotel Gracery Shinjuku
Equipped with free Wi-Fi, some of the rooms look out over the massive Godzilla head on the eighth-floor patio. Amenities include feather comforters, Japanese tea, pajamas and toothbrush sets.
There’s also a special Godzilla Room with its own Godzilla statue, wall art depicting the monster’s feet and numerous other features and amenities from the long-running film franchise.
Dining
Bonjour is a café by the lobby that looks out over the Godzilla statue
Bonjour is a “sandwich buffet” and café on the eighth floor in the spacious lobby. It has a limited menu with dishes such as hashed beef and curried rice but more than makes up for that with eye-popping views of the Godzilla head right outside its floor-to-ceiling panoramic window.
Bars, restaurants, karaoke parlors and arcade halls can be found within steps of Hotel Gracery. Kabukicho has enjoyed its share of notoriety as the biggest red-light district in East Asia, but its character is changing with the recent redevelopment including the construction of family-friendly cinemas and the cybernetically themed Robot Restaurant, which attracts many tourists.
Other services
Hotel Gracery also has coin-operated laundry machines, a concierge desk with sightseeing information and a Godzilla merchandise kiosk on the eighth floor.
Hotel Gracery Shinjuku Location Map
Address: 1-19-1 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Tel. 03-6833-1111
Article by Tim Hornyak. All rights reserved.
