Okinawa Hotel Ryokan Building

A Hotel Wing with Breeze-Block Walls

The Okinawa Hotel Ryokan Building (沖縄ホテル旅館棟) is the U-shaped guest wing of a hotel of 1961 in Daido, Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on March 6, 2024 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a three-storey reinforced-concrete building with a building area of 828 square metres, altered in 1993; registration number 47-0089.

A U-Shaped Guest Wing

The Okinawa Hotel Ryokan Building belongs to a hotel that has operated since before the war, in the town north-east of Asato Station (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Its U-shaped plan opens to the west, with an atrium entrance hall and stair in the central wing and guest rooms in the north and south wings.

Sunshades run above the windows on every floor, and walls and balconies decorated with hollow concrete blocks show the hallmarks of its architect (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Why It Was Registered

The Agency notes the sunshades and the hollow-block walls and balconies typical of its architect, and registered it as a model of design.

What to Look For

Look for the sunshades above the windows and the hollow-block walls and balconies (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

It is owned by Okinawa Hotel Co., Ltd. (Agency for Cultural Affairs). No official information on the hotel's operation or on visits was found. The four registered structures are covered on the Okinawa Hotel group page.