The old Okura Hotel (across from the American Embassy) will be torn down and replaced with something modern and more profitable, I assume. There are very few places in Tokyo that remain as I remember them from the late 60s and early 70s, and the Okura is one of them. It's a place I go once in a while just to drink in the atmosphere and chill (and have a wicked BLT).
Bummer.
http://monocle.com/magazine/issues/75/final-check-out/
Rumours had been swirling for months and then it came in May, the news all lovers of modern Japanese architecture had feared: the redevelopment of Hotel Okura in Tokyo. The word “iconic” is tediously overused but this hotel, a landmark since 1962, fully deserves the label. In September 2015 the best bit of the most loved hotel in Tokyo will be torn down by its owners to make way for a 38-storey glass tower. It will be a heartbreaking and irreparable loss.