Monday, July 07, 2008

Entertainment: Tokyo's Imperial Hotel hosts 5th annual World Jazz Festival August 12-13

With Korean Sax Star Lee Jung Sik At the Osaka Imperial August 15th and 16th

Tokyo - Kyodo JBN-AsiaNet/ - The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo will host its hotel-wide live jazz event once again for two full days this summer, on August 12th and 13th, the fifth year of this event, held throughout the hotel premises, where guests purchase one-day tickets for access to any of the day's performances. This year popular Korean sax player Lee Jung Sik will also appear.

The performances will be held daily from 2:00 p.m. through 8:30 p.m. in various spaces around the hotel, and guests who purchase a daily Yen 15,000 ticket are free to move from venue to venue as the performances are underway. Tickets include two drinks and a canape. A two-day ticket is Yen 26,000.

Among the global collection of over 100 artists this year will be the Juilliard All-Stars from the Juilliard School from New York and Korean sax player Lee Jung Sik. Top Japanese artists include Eiji Kitamura, Norio Maeda, Yosuke Yamashita, Peggy Hayama, Yasuko Agawa, Naoko Terai, Malta, the Sachiko Yasui piano trio, "Swingy" Okuda and the Blue Sky Orchestra, and numerous other leading talents from the Japanese world of jazz. The event goes on to the Imperial Hotel, Osaka, August 15th and 16th.

In conjunction with the festival, The Imperial in Tokyo and Osaka will offer special options for Jazz Complex 2008 guests which include accommodations, breakfast and a one-day ticket to the Complex for two persons, with double occupancy rates in Tokyo on the nights of August 12th and 13th and in Osaka on the nights of August 15th and 16th varying from Yen 61,000 per room per night in Tokyo and from Yen 56,000 per room per night in Osaka.

This summer the Imperial Hotel is also offering a package plan that includes accommodation for two persons at Yen 33,500 including all-you-can-eat buffet breakfasts, July 1st to September 30th.

All rates include consumption tax and service charges. Applicable accommodation tax will be added to room charges.
Reservations through http://www.imperialhotel.co.jp or by phone to 813-3504-1111 (Tokyo) or 816-6881-1111 (Osaka).

Source: Imperial Hotel, Ltd.
Contact:
Mari Miyazaki
Public Relations
Imperial Hotel, Ltd.
Phone: +81-3-3539-8014
Fax: +81-3-3504-1474
E-mail: m.miyazaki@imperialhotel.co.jp
URL: http://www.imperialhotel.co.jp

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