Tour The Godzilla Hotel

On 9 April, a special ceremony was held to appoint Godzilla as a tourism ambassador for Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. At the ceremony a huge Godzilla head was unveiled atop Hotel Gracery Shinjuku, which is scheduled to open on 24 April 2015.

The Shinjuku Toho Building is now a new landmark in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho area. The new building houses not only Hotel Gracery Shinjuku, but also Tokyo's largest cinema complex. The life-size Godzilla head is installed on the buildings 8th floor terrace and roars, and blows smoke at certain times of the day. The height of Godzilla head if 12-m, so to scale for Godzilla’s ‘real life’ size in his 1954 film debut. Dive in for a look around the hotel!