The Kyoto Grand Hotel and Garden is a boutique hotel

Boutique hotel

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 located in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

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, USA. Managed by Crestline Hotels & Resorts

Crestline Hotels & Resorts

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 Inc., the hotel is located in the Little Tokyo area of downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles

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 at at 120 South Los Angeles Street.

Opened in 1977, it was the New Otani

New Otani

is a chain of hotels whose headquarters is in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.The company opened on January 18, 1963. The main hotel in Tokyo opened in 1964, to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics of that year. Upon its opening, the building was the tallest building in Tokyo until 1968 when the Kasumigaseki...

 Hotel & Garden for thirty years until a change of ownership in 2007. The hotel features 434 guest rooms on 21 floors with three restaurants: Garden Grill, Thousand Cranes, and the Azalea.
Popular with Japanese tourists, the hotel is known for its half-acre rooftop garden inspired by an ancient garden in Japan. It is 19 miles (30.6 km) from Los Angeles International Airport

Los Angeles International Airport

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, and 2 miles (3.2 km) from the Los Angeles Convention Center

Los Angeles Convention Center

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Following bankruptcy proceedings, it was announced in October 2011 that the hotel would be rebranded as a DoubleTree by Hilton

Doubletree

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in the spring of 2012, following renovations.