Godzilla's stepping out of the screen and into real life Tokyo. A massive Godzilla head replica based on the creature's appearance in 1992's Godzilla vs. Mothra has been officially unveiled on a terrance adjacent to the Hotel Gracery in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The hotel opens next week and offers a Godzilla-themed room and Godzilla View Rooms for guests to stay in. If you're a creature-feature-loving couple looking to honeymoon in Japan, make your reservations now!
The Hotel Gracery, which opens for business later this month, will have the Godzilla Room available for $334 per day during the week and $417 on the weekends. The two Godzilla Rooms, meanwhile, are priced at $125 per night. To learn more about making a reservation, visit:
Weighing in at 80 tons, standing 39-feet high, and built of fiberglass and concrete, the Godzilla head statue is visible not only from the special hotel rooms, but also from the Shinjuku-Yasukuni Street below. The height of the eighth-floor terrance that houses the head on the Shinjuku Toho Building is approximately 170 feet, so to passersby on the ground, it appears as though an actual-size Godzilla is peering over the skyline at fresh prey.
In addition to its awe-inspiring appearance, the giant Godzilla head can breath simulated smoke and has glow-in-the-dark claws.
Jaunted reports that the Toho company and Shinjuku Mayor Kenichi Yoshizumi presented Godzilla with a resident card, while Japan's tourism program officially recognized the radioactive reptile as one of the country's tourist ambassadors.
Both the Hotel Gracery and the Shinjuku Toho Building are constructed where the Shinjuku Koma Theater (demolished in 2009) once stood.
Photos from Chris McGrath and Issei Kato via International Business Times:
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