Takarazuka, Hyogo | TAKARAZUKA HOTEL★★Official Takarazuka Revue Hotel: Part of the Show★★兵庫県宝塚市宝塚ホテル

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Takarazuka Hotel sits in Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture, right beside the Takarazuka Grand Theater, and it has been part of this town since 1926. The current building opened in 2020, after the hotel moved next door to the theater, but the design keeps the same classical bones as the original, a style locally known as Hanshinkan Modernism, full of arched windows, gabled roofs, and careful European detailing. Walking in, you get a lobby with soaring ceilings, a red carpeted staircase, and a chandelier carried over from the old hotel, all of it lit by natural light pouring through the windows above. The rooms come in three basic looks, a pink toned elegance theme, a calmer blue toned grace theme, and a subdued classic monotone theme, and there are eleven room types in total, from single rooms up through suites, including a triple room built for three guests. Every room gets free access to the Takarazuka Sky Stage channel, so guests can watch past Revue performances from bed, a nice touch for anyone who just came from a show. Food wise, the hotel runs four venues, a buffet and cafe called L'ensemble that serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner with a live cooking station, a Japanese kaiseki restaurant called Iroha, a teppanyaki restaurant called Fuga, and a tea lounge called Renaissance that is well loved for its afternoon tea sets. There is also a shop called L'Harmonie on the first floor, part gift shop, part patisserie, selling cakes, baked goods, and Revue themed merchandise, plus custom celebration cakes. Just outside, the Takarazuka Ohashi Bridge crosses the Muko River right across from the hotel, decorated with flower beds and sculptures, and it gives a nice view back toward the theater. The whole location is a short walk from Hankyu Takarazuka Station, about four minutes on foot, and around 25 minutes by train from Osaka. For a tourist, the appeal here is pretty simple, this is a classic, elegant hotel with real history behind it, not a generic modern box, and its location means you can walk out of a show and be back in your room in minutes, still wrapped in the same atmosphere you just watched on stage.
Takarazuka Revue is the reason most people end up at this hotel in the first place. It is an all female musical theater company founded in 1913 by Kobayashi Ichizo, an industrialist who also built the Hankyu railway line running through this city. The original idea was fairly commercial, he wanted a reason for people to ride the train out to Takarazuka, a town known at the time for its hot springs, and he built an all female cast partly as a direct answer to Kabuki, which was traditionally all male. The first show went up in 1914, based on the folktale of Momotaro, the peach boy, and from there the company grew into something much bigger than a marketing gimmick. Every role in every show, male or female, is played by a woman. Performers who specialize in male roles are called otokoyaku, and those in female roles are called musumeyaku, and a top otokoyaku paired with a top musumeyaku usually anchors each production. The company today is split into five troupes, Flower, Moon, Snow, Star, and Cosmos, each with around eighty performers, and getting into any of them requires years of spartan training at the affiliated Takarazuka Music School. Becoming a Takarasienne, as these performers are called, is a real dream for a lot of young Japanese girls, and only a small number of them ever reach the level of headliner. The Revue's biggest hit by far came in 1974 with a stage adaptation of the manga The Rose of Versailles, a story about a girl raised as a boy, and that production is still tied to the company's identity today. For a first time visitor, the appeal is the spectacle itself, big musical numbers, elaborate costumes, and a devoted fan culture built around it, all packed into a hometown that was essentially designed around this one theater company from the start.
0:00 Introduction to Takarazuka Hotel
1:45 Takarazuka Milk a Local Favorite Dairy Product Shop
2:10 Entrance to the Takarazuka Hotel & Facilities
6:16 Room Introduction to the Triple Room
8:25 Explanation about Takarazuka Revue
10:54 Outro to the Video

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