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The modern hotel overlooks the Palace, the {{convert|40|acre|sing=on}} western-style [[Hibiya Park]], and the [[Ginza]] neighborhood.<ref name="Imperial Hotel"/> Three buildings have stood on the hotel site, each of which embodied the finest western design of its era.<ref name="Imperial Hotel"/> The hotel eventually slipped into decay as time took its toll. In a controversial decision, it was decided to demolish the old hotel and replace it with a high-rise structure, to maximize the use of land.<ref name="Imperial Hotel"/>
The modern hotel overlooks the Palace, the {{convert|40|acre|sing=on}} western-style [[Hibiya Park]], and the [[Ginza]] neighborhood.<ref name="Imperial Hotel"/> Three buildings have stood on the hotel site, each of which embodied the finest western design of its era.<ref name="Imperial Hotel"/> The hotel eventually slipped into decay as time took its toll. In a controversial decision, it was decided to demolish the old hotel and replace it with a high-rise structure, to maximize the use of land.<ref name="Imperial Hotel"/>
==References==
== Imperial Hotel, Tokyo Media ==
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File:First-Imperial-Hotel-Tokyo-by-Yuzuru-Watanabe-1890.png|The original Imperial Hotel, designed by Yuzuru Watanabe (1890)
File:Peacock Chair Imperial Hotel Frank Lloyd Wright.jpg|Peacock Chair, designed for the hotel.
File:Imperial-Hotel-Tokyo-Plans-Design-Frank-Lloyd-Wright.png|Imperial Hotel Tokyo plans design by Wright
File:Imperial Hotel final perspective drawing.jpg|Final perspective drawing by Wright. Over 700 drawings were created for this project.
File:Imperial Hotel Sign.jpg|Imperial Hotel Sign, 1922, demolished 1967, Tokyo, Japan, photo by Anonymous, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
File:Imperial Hotel FFW 11.jpg|The hotel (left) shortly after [[1923 Great Kantō earthquake|the 1923 earthquake]] (on the right burning is the Kangyō Bank)
File:Imperial Hotel FLW 14.jpg|Shortly after the earthquake (the Imperial is seen in the top right)
File:ImperialHotelFacade.jpg|The entrance courtyard of Wright's Imperial Hotel, as recreated near [[Nagoya]] in the Meiji-Mura Museum
File:Meiji-Mura 3881726247 5afab9d0db.jpg|Entrance Hall, which was reconstructed in the Meiji Mura Museum
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== References ==
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== Other websites ==
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*[http://www.imperialhotel.co.jp/index_e.html Imperial Hotel, Ltd.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221212344/http://www.imperialhotel.co.jp/index_e.html |date=2009-02-21 }} (株式会社帝国ホテル; ''Kabushiki Gaisha Teikoku Hoteru'').
*[http://www.imperialhotel.co.jp/index_e.html Imperial Hotel, Ltd.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221212344/http://www.imperialhotel.co.jp/index_e.html |date=2009-02-21 }} (株式会社帝国ホテル; ''Kabushiki Gaisha Teikoku Hoteru'').