Takaone Hotel / Kei Kaihoh Architects

Ecological Planning for a Place Where the Town Ends and the Forest Begins. This is a renovation project for a hotel located right in front of Takaosanguchi Station, the terminus of the Keio Corporation Railway’s Takao Line, about an hour's train ride from Shinjuku. The hotel is in a place where the sound of trains departing at dawn and the chirping of birds can be heard. We considered how the hotel should be built where the town ends and the forest begins. While the number of visitors to Mt. Takao is said to be as high as 3 million per year, the area has a variety of attractions, but there are few ways to spend time other than climbing the mountain, and it tends to get dark later in the evening.