Japan's Kintetsu to sell 8 hotels to Blackstone for $550m

Properties in Osaka and Kyoto on offer as rail group reels from COVID hit

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Japanese railway group Kintetsu is selling properties in Osaka and Kyoto to U.S. fund Blackstone. (Source photos by Tomoki Mera and Reuters) 

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Japanese railway company Kintetsu Group Holdings plans to sell eight hotels in Osaka and Kyoto to U.S. investment fund Blackstone Group for around 60 billion yen ($550 million), Nikkei has learned.

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