Dear Members of the Press/Media:January 22, 2020
Tachihi Hospitality Management Co., Ltd.

The first hotel in Japan to furnish all guest rooms withJapan-made fair-trade cotton towels andHungarian mother white goose down comforters
King of Down “Eiderdown” in the highest-grade Sorano Suite
High-quality, eco-friendly select amenities at SORANO HOTEL
Scheduled to open in Tachikawa, Tokyo on Tuesday, May 12, 2020
SORANO HOTEL (Management: Tachihi Hospitality Management Co., Ltd.; Masamichi
Murayama, President and Representative Director), scheduled to open in Tachikawa, Tokyo onTuesday, May 12, 2020, is preparing for its grand opening as it strives to be a new kind of hotelthat frees itself from conventions. With the concept of Well-being – a wholesome experience toinvigorate the mind and body – high-quality, eco-friendly furnishings and amenities, including
Japan-made fair trade cotton towels and Japan’s highest quality Hungarian mother white goose
down comforters, have been selected to furnish all guest rooms for the first time in Japan. Bothare high quality items that are not easily offered at conventional hotels.

[Japan’s first hotel to appoint all guest rooms with Japan-made fair-trade certified cotton
towels]SORANO HOTEL will furnish all guest rooms with Hotman’s highly water absorbent One-second
towels* made with fair-trade certified cotton. The towels are made using Hotman’s original
manufacturing method that maximizes the potential of cotton without using chemicals such assofteners and water-absorbing agents used in general towel production.
These high-quality towels that are considerate of people and the environment are gentle on
your hair and skin, safe and reliable, and contribute to a sustainable society.
Hotman is a long-established towel manufacturer with ahistory of over 150 years in Ome, Tokyo. In support of fairtrade activities aimed at improving the lives and selfdependenceofdeveloping

countries,

thecompany

manufactures and sells Japan-made fair-trade cotton
towels, which were the first to become internationally fairtrade certified in Japan since 2014.
Hotman conducts all production processes in-house andtightly manages raw material purchases, enabling it to meetstrict international fair-trade standards. Hotman’s fairtrade certified products are made with high-quality fairtrade cotton grown in the Republic of Senegal. Senegal
cotton is beautiful, glossy white cotton that is handpicked
to minimize damage to the fiber and strong enough for use
in towel products.

*Please visit https://hotman.co.jp/onesecond#1second001 for information about the One-second towel.

[Hungarian mother white goose down comforters]
SORANO HOTEL will furnish all 80 guest rooms, except for the highest grade Sorano Suite (1room), with comforters featuring Hungarian mother white goose down (*down power 440 dp).
Such high-quality furnishings in all guest rooms are uncommon in typical hotels.
Down are clearly ranked by the breed ofwaterfowl (goose or duck), breeding period, andclimate of the breeding location, which affecttheir quality and function. Hungarian motherwhite goose is said to have quality near the top,
and its value has further increased with thedecline of its distribution volume worldwide.
The products of Fujishinkou Co., Ltd. that wehave selected this time are completely
guaranteed of quality and traceability as thematerials are purchased directly in Hungary andwashed at the company’s factory with thebounteous water of Mt. Fuji. According to theJapan Down Product Cooperative Standards,down power* of 440 dp and above indicates thehighest quality called the “Premium Gold Label”,
and the difference is obvious when you use it.
*Down power (dp) is the volume of feathers in a comforter, expressed as the volume per gram. The better the down is, themore volume and heat retention it has.

[The ultimate down comforter: Icelandic Eiderdown]
Furnished in SORANO HOTEL’s highest-grade guest
room, Sorano SuiteThe eider duck that inhabit the rugged coastline to thenorth of Iceland are covered with exceptional down tomaintain a high body temperature of about 40 degrees
Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the severe cold. Thefeathers have very long barbs with curled tips thatintermingle to form large, fluffy down balls.
Eider ducks use their feathers to protect their eggs andchicks from the cold. When laying eggs, the mother birds
pluck down from their own chests with their beaks and fill
the nest with the down for heat insulation and retention.
After the ducklings leave the nest, eiderdown – the kingof down – is collected by hand from the nests.
In Iceland, depending on the weather, about 3,000 kilograms of eiderdown is collected annually.
Collection from 60 to 80 nests amounts to one kilogram of down.
The strength and kindness of nature can be fully appreciated with this rare, spectacular,
unparalleled eiderdown. The king of down – eiderdown, which has scarcity value and extraordinary
quality will be furnished in SORANO HOTEL’s highest-grade Sorano Suite.

About SORANO HOTEL
The hotel concept is Well-being – a wholesome experience to invigorate the mind andbody. The SORANO HOTEL is scheduled to open on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 within GreenSprings, the new urban subdivision currently in development in Tachikawa, Tokyo. All 81
guest rooms boast a size of at least 52 square meters and are furnished with a balcony
and park view. Along with such spacious, high quality guest rooms is a 60-meter-longinfinity pool on the top 11th floor that uses privately drilled hot spring water. The indoor
spa – a hot bathing facility, nano-mist sauna offering a comfortable sauna experience,and gym studio that provides a new kind of personal training called “conditioning” areamong the Well-being facilities available at the hotel.

Inquiries:Kanako Murayama, Mai Iwamoto / SORANO HOTEL Pre-Opening Office Marketing
TEL: 042-536-8888 communications@soranohotel.com
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