NEW YORK -- The Kitano Hotel New York, a long-established Japanese-owned luxury lodging, reopens on Friday as The Prince Kitano New York, making it operator Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide's first property in the U.S. city.
Favorite lodging of prime ministers and business leaders gets upgraded rooms

The entrance of The Kitano Hotel New York, before the rebranding, on Park Avenue in New York, near Grand Central Terminal. (Kitano Godo Tatemono)
NEW YORK -- The Kitano Hotel New York, a long-established Japanese-owned luxury lodging, reopens on Friday as The Prince Kitano New York, making it operator Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide's first property in the U.S. city.