Timeline
A timeline showing famous guests who have stayed at Nara Hotel.
Visited by historical figures and dignitaries, Nara Hotel still retains the dignified splendor of the age in which it was founded in a quiet corner of Nara Park over a century ago.
- 1909
- Hotel begins operations. Run by Japan Hotels Corporation on land then owned by the Japanese Government Railways.
- 1914
- Steam heating installed in all rooms
- 1916
- Kyoshi Takahama (Japan)
- 1918
- Sergei Prokofiev (Russia)
- 1921
- Bertrand Russel (Great Britain)
- 1922
- Edward VIII (Great Britain), Albert Einstein (Germany)
- 1929
- Duke of Gloucester (Great Britain)
- 1931
- Charles Lindbergh (USA)
- 1935
- Puyi (Manchukuo)
- 1936
- Charlie Chaplin (USA)
- 1937
- Helen Keller(USA)
- 1945
- José Laurel(the Philippines)
- 1945
- Hotel operations consigned to Japan Travel Bureau Foundation
- 1951
- Richard Nixon (USA)
- 1956
- Marlon Brando (USA), Nehru (India), Princess Alexandra (Great Britain)
- 1970
- Queen Beatrix (Holland), Princess Margaret (Great Britain), Pope Paul VI
- 1983
- Audrey Hepburn (Great Britain)
- 1983
- Nara Hotel Co., Ltd., established.
- 1984
- New building opened
- 1992
- Václav Havel (Czechoslovakia), Duke of Kent (Great Britain)
- 1997
- St Raphael Chapel completed
- 2003
- 14th Dalai Lama (Tibet)
- 2006
- Abbot of Asgiriya Temple (Sri Lanka)
- 2009
- Centennial celebrations
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Under construction
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Hotel lobby (late 1910s)
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Main dining room