Travel agency JTB to lease cruise ship to beat Tokyo 2020 Games hotel crunch

YOKOHAMA — A 1,011-cabin cruise ship will be moored at a Yokohama pier for the duration of the Tokyo 2020 Games to help beat the expected hotel room crunch, it was announced on June 25.

Major travel agency JTB Corp. will lease the 70,000-ton class “Sun Princess” cruise liner from Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. and station it at Yokohama’s Yamashita Pier from July 23 to Aug. 9, 2020. The 2,022-passenger-capacity ship is equipped with three restaurants, a pool, theater, spa and sports gym, among other facilities.

Stays must be at least two nights, at prices in the 70,000 yen range up to the 600,000 yen range per night.

(Japanese original by Yoshihiro Tanaka, Yokohama Bureau)