Nara Hotel

Our History

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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