18/05/2026
✨ 300 cranes — one for each room at Hotel Okura Amsterdam ✨
I was told that in Japanese tradition, folding cranes is tied to the idea of making a wish. I love the beauty of that: the thought that a wish asks something of you first — patience, repetition, care. That it isn’t simply spoken into the air, but built slowly, fold by fold.
⛩️ Hotel Okura Amsterdam feels like a meeting point between Japan and the Netherlands — two cultures connected for centuries through trade, craftsmanship, and curiosity. That relationship is woven throughout the hotel, from the quiet precision of the design to the extraordinary attention to detail in every corner.
Built before Amsterdam’s current height regulations, the hotel still towers high over the city — offering one of those rare views that makes you see Amsterdam from a completely different perspective.
The hotel is elegant without trying too hard — the kind of place where everything feels intentional. And then there was the food…
🥢 Okura is home to Ciel Bleu, its two-Michelin-starred restaurant high above Amsterdam, as well as Yamazato, the Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant.
But my personal favorite was Sazanka — the teppanyaki restaurant where dinner becomes part precision, part performance, and entirely memorable.
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