Stay - Watch: The Park Hyatt Tokyo & Lost in Translation
For Dreaming of: Dark, Bustling, Glamorous Tokyo.
This now-classic film made an icon out of the Park Hyatt Tokyo hotel
Movie
Lost in Translation was the film that convinced me that I really wanted to visit Japan. It was my first time seeing Scarlett Johanssen on screen, and watching her peer out of a plated-glass skyscraper across the infinitely hazy skyline of Tokyo filled me with wanderlust. Accompanying her rock-star boyfriend who was in Japan on business, she is left alone in the soon-to-become iconic Park Hyatt hotel to explore its serene public spaces. She meets Bill Murray (playing an actor by another name) shooting a commercial in the hotel, and a tense relationship develops between the two as they explore the city and their loneliness together.
For me, staying at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo was a bucket list-must as a result of the film. I needed to experience that serenely moody setting. Sitting atop a post-modern high rise by architect Kenzō Tange, wood tones and clean lines dominate an otherwise unfussy space. Lucky-me, as I had a friend with connections who upgraded us to a room with a bed that was as wide as my Manhattan apartment. The pool crowns the building, swimming in a cupola of glass. But the star of the show is the dazzling New York Bar, where live piano music weighs into the evening air, and sitting at the bar in the same place where Johanssen and Murray once sat was the cherry that topped my cocktail.
Stay: Park Hyatt Tokyo, Shinjuku City - Tokyo
Film Available on Max, Hulu, and Amazon Prime
From left to right: Porte cochere at the Park Hyatt Tokyo; Room key; Sitting at the New York Bar where Scarlett Johannsen and Bill Murray sat in 'Lost in Translation'; Park Hyatt lounge; Tokyo skyline; the big bed in the Park Hyatt -- At top: the Park Hyatt's pool.
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