HMI Hotel Group

Hotel Pearl City Kobe

HMI Hotel Group is a hotel management company, which operates the Pearl City, Creston, Crown Palais and other premium hotels in Japan. It is headed by Ryuko Hira, with its headquarters in Kobe, Japan.

## Contents

* 1 Hotels
* 2 Owned by Ryuko Hira
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Hotels[edit]

HMI Hotel Group, known in Japan as Hotel Management International Co., Ltd., was established in 1991,[1] and manages about 60 resort and business hotels in Japan.

* Hotel Pearl City Sapporo, Sapporo
* Hotel Pearl City Sendai, Sendai
* Shibuya Creston Hotel, Tokyo
* Nagoya Creston Hotel, Nagoya
* Hotel Pearl City Kobe, Kobe, where the company is headquartered
* Crown Palais Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu
* Rizzan Sea-Park Hotel Tancha-Bay, Onna, Okinawa

etc.

## Owned by Ryuko Hira[edit]

HMI Hotel Group is owned by Ryuko Hira. He was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, in 1948. [2] After trading in gemstones and precious metals in Tokyo, he married a Japanese woman, became a naturalized Japanese citizen, and adopted a Japanese name, Ryūko Hira (Japanese: 比良竜虎).[citation needed]

In 1991 Hira established the Hotel Pearl City Kobe, which also serves as HMI Hotel Group's headquarters. Since that time, he has mainly bought the operating rights of existing hotels. He also is one of the directors of Japan-India Association, Tokyo. [3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Hotel Management International Co., Ltd.
2. ^ The History of Sightseeing in Japan: Hotel Management International Co., Ltd. (in Japanese)
3. ^ About Japan-India Association: List of Board of Directors (in Japanese)

## External links[edit]

* Official Website
* Japan Tour Guide