Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
The Tokyo Hotel was located at 37A, 37B and 38A Connaught Road Central.
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c.1910
1923
1925
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The hotel likely opened in…
The hotel likely opened in 1911 (see below).
Kackuzo Uysetsuki, the owner of the Sei Foo Row Hotel, applied in 1911 for a license to sell liquor for the Tokyo Hotel (which he also owned). The Hong Kong Daily Press 1911-11-09 refers:
Licensing Session November 1911.
[Excerpts]
In the application by K. Uyetsuki for a publican’s licence for the Tokyo Hotel, Mr. G.K. Hall Brutton (of Messrs. Brutton & Hett) appeared for the applicant. He informed the Justices that last year an adjunct licence has been granted to Mr. Uyetsuki in respect of the Sei Foo Row Hotel. Since that date the Tokyo Hotel, which was just across the road, had been built, and the applicant now desired a publican’s licence for that hotel. The sureties for him were the manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank, the manager of the Tokyo Kisen Kaisha and Mr. Pang On Wing, who was the owner of the premises.
[…]
Mr. Hooper [member of the licensing board]— You have an adjunct licence at present?
Mr. Brutton—Yes.
For a house on the other side of the street? — Yes. [this is the Sei Foo Row Hotel]
Do you propose to give up that? No. We propose retaining it as an annex to the Tokyo Hotel. It is proposed to have a public bar on the ground floor of the new building.
[…]
The Board, after considering the application in camera, refused a publican's, but granted an adjunct licence.
The last entry for the Tokyo Hotel is in the licensing sessions for 1940. The hotel probably closed in 1941 and never opened again after the war.