On Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 10:28:34 PM UTC-5,
pamel...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 6:56:59 AM UTC-6, Norbert K wrote:
This is the hotel where John and Yoko would stay during visits to Tokyo.
It's also where McCartney *intended* to stay prior to his Japanese marijuana bust:
https://theokuratokyo.jp/en/stay/
That's lovely.
If you're anywhere near San Francisco, check out what used to be the Miyako Hotel and Japanese Trade Center. I lived across the street for two years in the late 60's and loved them...
https://www.bookonline.com/hotel/hotel-kabuki-a-joie-de-vivre-boutique-hotel?gclid=Cj0KCQiA8vSOBhCkARIsAGdp6RQVho5B47hiMoeQ5VW4tqu3-gPPcJNMLzAgZzUAFWnPvzEeub6OoxAaAnVNEALw_wcB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Center_(San_Francisco)
It must have been amazing to live in that neighborhood in the 60s! I was there a couple of times in the 90s. I remember a dinner of fried breaded oysters on skewers in one of the little restaurants.
John and Yoko would stay in the Miyako (now the Kabuki) Hotel in SF in the early 70s. There's a discussion of it in the Rolling Stone article "The Private Years." Elliot Mintz claims they paid for him to stay in the hotel for a month, but that John and
Yoko rarely left their quarters or ate. If Mintz is to be trusted, this was presumably before they had stayed with Dr. Hong in San Mateo and ended their methadone addiction.
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