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Leading Hawaii luxury hotel Halekulani to enter Okinawa

Halekulani Okinawa to open in Summer 2019.

TOKYO – Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., a leading global real estate company headquartered in Tokyo, announced that it has decided, together with Halekulani Corporation, a 100%-owned subsidiary of Mitsui Fudosan, owns and operates Halekulani, to open Halekulani Okinawa at the site of the Okinawa Inbu Beach Hotel Project (tentative name) in Onna Village, Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, in the summer of 2019 (planned).

Under the Group’s “Innovation 2017 Stage II” medium-term business plan, announced in May 2015, Mitsui Fudosan has positioned the hotel and resort business as one of its new growth areas. Along with taking proactive steps to develop the proprietary brand, Mitsui Garden Hotels in Japan, Mitsui Fudosan has been working to develop luxury hotel properties and attract such properties to its multi-use developments in central Tokyo, including such notable luxury hotel properties as Mandarin Oriental Tokyo and The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo. In the resort field, Mitsui Fudosan has been developing the resort business since 2007, which includes such properties as Nemu Hotel & Resort, Toba Hotel International and Haimurubushi. Mitsui Fudosan invited Aman Resorts, an international luxury hotel group, to participate in the NEMU RESORT project, opening AMANEMU on the premises in March 2016. Okinawa, which offers significant prospects for growth in the luxury hotel market, Mitsui Fudosan has decided to open Halekulani Okinawa as its first luxury hotel in Japan under its proprietary hotel brand.

This year, Halekulani celebrates the centennial of its founding as a hotel on Waikiki Beach. In this landmark year, the announcement of the opening of the second Halekulani in Japan, with which it has close ties, and on Okinawa, one of Japan’s leading beach resort destinations, will be a momentous undertaking that will carry Halekulani forward into its next century of business.

Halekulani Okinawa will welcome Mr. Jun Yoshie as its first general manager, who has extensive experience in luxury hotel management. Aiming for a grand opening in 2019, Mitsui Fudosan is determined to develop a world-class luxury hotel at the project site, which faces one of Japan’s finest beaches on the west coast of the main island of Okinawa. We hope that you will share our high expectations for this new luxury hotel property.

Mr. Peter Shaindlin, COO, Halekulani Corporation, said, “From the moment I arrived at the planned site at Inbu, Okinawa and saw the lavender-hued horizon from the shore, I knew that we were destined to open our long-sought second Halekulani location here. I’m confident that Halekulani Okinawa will crystallize the evolution of the Halekulani legacy that has been carefully handed down over the generations from a century ago. I’m delighted that the opening of this new hotel in 2019 will turn a new page in the history of the Halekulani legacy and carry it boldly into the future.”

“Mitsui Fudosan will open its first directly operated luxury resort hotel in Japan under the Halekulani brand, a legendary hotel that it owns in Hawaii. I’m extremely honored and truly proud to have the opportunity to serve as the hotel’s first general manager. I’m also excited to be playing a part in the development of the west coast of the main island of Okinawa, which is one of the most beautiful beach-resort areas of the world, into an internationally renowned resort destination through the addition of Halekulani’s attractiveness to this area. Based on the experience I have gained through my work with various hotel brands, I would like to develop a hotel in which every staff member can take the utmost pride”, said Mr. Jun Yoshie, First General Manager of Halekulani Okinawa.

Photo caption: Bird’s eye perspective rendering of the completed hotel.

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