Park Hotel Tokyo began selling stays in its new Artist Room “Sushi☆Wonderland,” created by artist ABEYUKA., on April 15.
The guest room’s theme is sushi, time, and Japanese passion. A rainbow that circles the room represents the conveyor belt of a kaiten-zushi (conveyor-belt sushi restaurant), with pieces of nigiri sushi traveling across time and space along it. The walls at the headboard side, side wall, foot side, and window side each depict scenes from the Edo period, the near future, ancient times, and the present day. Elements such as Godzilla spraying soy sauce, Tokyo Skytree, and Tokyo Tower guide the guest’s gaze toward the view of Hama-rikyu Gardens outside the window, highlighting this Tokyo landscape.
The spatial design overlays the architectural philosophy of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who emphasized straight lines and right angles, with elements of Antoni Gaudí, who used nature-derived curves. This allows structural order to coexist with free expression through curves and color. By painting across wall corners to make them less noticeable, guiding the eye around the four-sided narrative, and arranging colors of similar tones along diagonal lines, visual effects are created that make it easier to feel a sense of breadth and depth even in a vividly colored space.
Artist Rooms are part of a project in which artists stay at the hotel and paint directly on the walls and ceilings of guest rooms, expressing their unique worlds throughout the entire room. This new room is the 52nd in the series. Developed under the concept of offering a time–space in which guests can experience Japanese aesthetics, the project has received an Excellence Award in its category at the Japan Tourism Awards.
