Nara

HISTOR AND IMPORTANT VISITORS

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)

Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei, with Crown Prince Hirohito, in 1916

Kyoshi Takahama, Japanese poet, in 1916

Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, in May 19–27, 1918

Count Nogi Maresuke, Japanese general, in 1911

Crown Prince Hirohito, in 1921

Bertrand Russell, British mathematician, in July 19, 1921

Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1922

Albert Einstein, Swiss physicist, in December 17–18, 1922

Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun, in 1928

Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in 1929

Charles Lindbergh, American aviator, in 1931

Emperor Shōwa, in 1932 and 1940

Emperor Puyi, in 1935. He gave medals to all the staff of the hotel.

Charlie Chaplin, in 1936

Empress Kōjun, in 1937 and 1941, 1954

Helen Keller, American social welfare entrepreneur, in 1937

José P. Laurel, former Philippine President, in 1945 for two months

Richard Nixon, U.S. Vice-President, in 1953

Joe DiMaggio, 1954, Marilyn Monroe canceld her reservation

Marlon Brando, American actor, in 1956

Glenn Ford, American actor, in 1956

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian prime minister, and his daughter Indira Gandhi, in 1957

Princess Alexandra of Kent, in 1961

John Diefenbaker, Canadian prime minister, in 1961

Arturo Frondizi, Argentine president, in 1961

Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General, in 1962

Princess Margrethe, The Hereditary Princess of Denmark, in 1963

Prince Takamatsu, in 1964

King Baudouin of Belgium, in 1964

Premier of France, in 1964

Prince of Laos, in 1965

Prince of Spain, in 1966

Prince Chichibu, in 1967

Prince of Nepal, in 1967

Crown Prince Naruhito, in 1968

Gaston Eyskens, Belgian prime minister, in 1969

Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun, in 1970

Prince Takamatsu and Princess Takamatsu, in 1970

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, in 1970

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, in 1970

Pope Paul VI, in 1970

Prince Fumihito, in 1970

Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun, in 1979 and 1981

Yul Brynner, in 1980

Audrey Hepburn, British actress, March 31-April 2, 1983

Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko, with daughter Princess Sayako, in 1987

Prince Akishino and Princess Akishino, in 1990

Václav Havel, Czechoslovak president, in 1992

Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, in 1992

Emperor Heisei and Empress Michiko, in 2002 and 2008

14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual head, in 2003

Hu Jintao, Chinese president, in 2008