Memory of Shiba Park Hotel, in Shiba area of Tokyo
Founded in 1948, Shiba Park Hotel has grown alongside its guests and the Shiba community, celebrating its 76th anniversary on May 27, 2025.
Founded in 1948, Shiba Park Hotel has grown alongside its guests and the Shiba community, celebrating its 76th anniversary on May 27, 2025.
GHQ was searching for a building in Tokyo that would serve as a dormitory, and they chose Kyoritsu Women’s Professional School of Pharmacy, which had a student dormitory in the greenery of Shiba Park. The dormitory was named “Women’s Billet” and was used as a dormitory for female soldiers of the Occupation Forces. This was the birth of the facility that would become the predecessor of the Shiba Park Hotel.
In 1948, the Shiba Park Hotel began operating as a foreign trade mission hotel (Buyer’s Hotel) under the management of the Trade Agency (now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).
In 1949, the hotel was privatized and Shiba Park Hotel Co.
Throughout our long history, the hospitality spirit of each and every one of our staff members has built up to create Shiba Park Hotel.
In 1960, a second annex wing was completed and 78 guest rooms were added, bringing the total number of guest rooms to 215.
The Peking Mansion, the first Chinese restaurant directly operated by the hotel in Japan, was opened in the same building. Beijing cuisine is a court cuisine that developed in northern China, mainly in the imperial court, and was introduced to the Shiba Park Hotel by Mr. Wang Jingbin, who was invited from Hong Kong as the first chef of the Peking Mansion, Crab meat with scrambled egg white in Fu-Young style and stir-fried prawn with Peking sauce have been handed down for over 50 years since the establishment, and they are still popular traditional Beijing dishes.
The “Peking Mansion” (now Chinese Cuisine Peking) continues to offer the same taste and hospitality at restaurant “The Dining.” The skills and spirit that have been passed down since its founding are still loved by many customers today, transcending time. Please enjoy the taste of “Peking,” which has walked alongside the history of Shiba Park Hotel.
In 2020, 72 years after its establishment, the Shiba Park Hotel has been rebranded under the new concept of “A library hotel that connects people, towns, and history.” The hotel has become a library hotel with a collection of approximately 1,500 books, while retaining the comfort of a good old hotel that has weaved its way through time in harmony with the traditions and culture of the area.
