Hilton Odawara Resort and Spa

(L) Nebukawa railway station in spring time (R) Terayama shrine, Nebukawa
The Nebukawa station is 90 kilometers west of Tokyo.

(L) A cherry bloom in front of the Nebukawa station
(R) Mikan - Satsuma trees in Nebukawa, Kanagawa prefecture

A plum shrub at a forest nature trail of Hilton Odawara Resort and Spa


Hilton Odawara Resort and Spa: It is located between the Hakone foothills and Sagami Bay. The hotel
is setting about 90 kms from the bustling city of Tokyo, Japan. Hilton Odawara Resort and Spa continue
to maintain the high standard that has seen us receive a number of prestigious awards.

Total rooms are 172, vs, smoking rooms 46 rooms. The percentage of smoking rooms to the total is 26.7%.
For recent few years, the smoking-room rate is declining, as changing of a guest' request. All four restaurants
are smokefree. A smoking booth is provided on the second floor.
Odawara Hilton Spa and Resort abolished 46 smoking rooms, and became smoke-free in January 2018,
after a complete renovation.


A panorama view from a guest room

A sunrise on the hill of Nebukawa


(L) A renovated twin-bedroom
Hotel guest can view a wide ocean scene hotel over cottages.


(L) A spa dome and tennis courts in the right-upper side (R) A jet-stream from the above and from the bottom

(L) outdoor spa (R) swimming pool of the hotel

Resort spa of Odawara Hilton

There are four outdoor and two indoor courts.
(M) A dinning room (R) A sunrise over the coast of the Sagami Bay

(L) A designated smoking room (R) The main lobby of Odawara Hilton

(L) A lobby of Hilton Odawara at Christmas time
(R) Nebukawa railway station directly faced to Sagami Bay, connected with Pacific Ocean.
Odawara Hilton Spa and Resort in details

Odawara Hilton Spa and Resort
Total guest rooms (hotel): 163 plus Cottages: 10
Smoking rooms (hotel): 48 → 24
Non-smoking rooms (hotel): 124 → 139
*29.4% → 14.7% (hotel)
(2013 → 2015 renovation)
*The ratio of the smoking rooms/total guest rooms

The hotel made an extensive renovation during the period of June 2014 and March 2015.
A non-designated room was abolished and changed to a non-smoking room.
This hotel has received the 2013 TripAdviser Certificate of Excellence Award.
It provides well-equipped European-style spa facilities.
Odawara Hilton Spa and Resort became smoke-free in January 2018, after a complete renovation.


JR's trains and Odakyu's trains at the platform of Odawara railway station:
(L) JR's green-car ( first-class vehicle ) running Shonan-Shinjuku Line
(R) Odakyu's limited express train from Shinjuku, Tokyo

　Odakyu Railway


Construction History of Hilton Odawara Resort and Spa:

In the Japan-US trades friction for years, in 1988, Japan and the United States agreed to liberalize,
to import US-produced orange from 1991. In order to solve this problem, it was recommended
the conversion of 'Mikan', orange field to other uses of the land. In 1988, Odawara city solicited
the activity to the Employment-Promotion Corporation, as this site to convert a recreational land
at Nebukawa of Odawara district. The construction of worker welfare facilities based on the E
mployment Insurance Act is determined in 1990, and began construction in1993, and completed
as 'Supauza Odawara' in1997.

The total cost of constriction of this huge facilities was 44.5 billion yen★ , this funding was came from
employer's share of the employment insurance premiums. The premises started operations in 1998.
However,in response to the backlash has a result of the set at a low cost-accommodation, and in the
flow ofa nation-wide abolition of workers' welfare facilities, it was sold at 8million yen to Odawara city.
It solicited to give the consignment to the Hilton. In 2004, " Hilton Odawara Resort -and-Spa" was
started carry on business.
★=436.7 million US dollars: The Loss of Employment Insurance found was 43.6 billion yen, 427.8 million US dollars.
Source:Wikipedia

建設経緯：

1980年代からの日米貿易摩擦の中で、1988年6月20日に日米牛肉・オレンジ交渉が決着し、オレンジは3年後の
1991年に輸入自由化されることになった。 この対応策として、全国的にみかん園の他用途への転換が促進される
ことになり、1988年に、小田原市根府川地区にあったみかん園の転換跡地利用方策として小田原市が雇用促進事業団
に対して誘致活動を行った。1990年には雇用保険法に基づく勤労者福祉施設の建設が決定し、1993年に着工、
1997年にスパウザ小田原として完成した。総工費は445億円★ で、この財源は雇用保険料のうちの事業主負担分
（労働者の負担分は使われていない）であった。

1998年に営業開始した。しかし伊豆半島を中心とする他の温泉街を中心に、巨大観光地をいきなり雇用保険で
建設した為に宿泊費等を安価に設定したことなどの反発を受け、勤労者福祉施設の廃止への流れの中で、小田原市に
8億5千万円で売却された。小田原市は、運営委託する企業を公募し、その中からヒルトンへの委託を決定、
2004年に「ヒルトン小田原リゾート・スパ」としてオープンした。 ★（注）雇用保険料の損失額は436億円以上
（引用：ウイキペヂア）


ヒルトン小田原リゾート
執筆 2014年4月、写真撮影 2011年4月、2013年5月、2014年4月　医学博士　宮本順伯
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This information was provided by the Smokefree Hotel and Travel.
The article was written in April 2014, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.
Information was added in February 2018.
Copyright (C) 2014 Junhaku Miyamoto, PhD. All right is reserved.