Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel: The Oriental hotel was the place where Jazz was played for the first time in Japan

An advertisement of Oriental Hotel was seen on the newspaper published on August 3 in 1870. That hotel was built by people from Prussia in a residential area for foreigners in Kobe. There are many anecdotes about the hotel, some of which are as follows. Joseph Rudyard Kipling who is known for his famous title “The Jungle Book” said “The Oriental Hotel serves better meals than Ruffles in Singapore or Victoria in Hong-Kong.”. A letterhead of the Oriental hotel was found in a bag left at Titanic under the ocean. Also this is the hotel where Jazz was played for the first time in Japan. The DNA has been carried into Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel. To reach their homepage, please visit Hyogo of "Hotels" on the map of Gland Collection of Japanese Traditions. 

 

Newspaper published on August 3, 1870

                                             The hotel looks like a gorgeous cruiser