[4][5] Designed by architect Yoshiro Taniguchi, the hotel's originality received worldwide admiration and numerous media and popular culture coverage.

Over the next decades, the group continued to expand domestically in Japan with the opening of properties in Nagano, Kobe, Hamamatsu, Kyoto, and Fukuoka.

In 2015, the historic main building of the Tokyo Hotel Okura was controversially demolished, garnering significant criticism from historians and designers.

[13][14][15] The demolition received considerable media attention, including coverage of designer Tomas Maier's unsuccessful movement to save the building.

[16][17] The low-rise hotel was subsequently replaced with a skyscraper, which reopened as The Okura Tokyo in 2019.