Toyoko Inn Portland

Toyoko Inn, one of Japan's largest business-hotel chains, is building its first US hotel on a vacant downtown Portland block at SW 3rd and Oak. The roughly 19-story tower has moved through the city's design-review process since 2016 and is targeted to open in March 2027 with room counts reported between about 486 and 610 depending on the source — designed in-house by the company's own architecture team rather than a local firm.

The place

The hotel is being built on a vacant quarter-block site at 209 SW Oak Street, at SW 3rd and Oak in downtown Portland, a few blocks from Pioneer Courthouse Square and the Willamette River waterfront. The project has moved through Portland's design-review process since a pre-application conference in 2018, with design advice sessions running through 2019.

The concept

Toyoko Inn is one of Japan's largest hotel chains, built on a standardized, no-frills business-hotel format — small, efficient rooms, a simple breakfast, and pricing well below the upscale and lifestyle brands that dominate this guide's Portland coverage. The Portland tower will be the chain's first hotel in the United States and its first anywhere on the US West Coast, designed in-house by Toyoko Inn's own architecture team rather than a local firm, consistent with how the company builds its properties in Japan. At roughly 19 stories, it is tracked locally as the tallest hotel by room stack in the city. The project has had a long runway: Portland's development authority approved the site sale as early as 2016, and the design-review process ran through 2019 before construction financing and permitting caught up. Reported room counts have varied by source and by year, from around 300-400 in early coverage to roughly 486 in more recent trade press and as high as 610 in some permit-stage filings — a gap likely reflecting design changes over the project's long gestation rather than a single error.

Dining & wellness

Toyoko Inn's standard format includes a ground-floor lobby with a simple breakfast area and a business center rather than a full restaurant; the Portland design also includes an interior courtyard with loading bays, bicycle storage and outdoor dining space, per design-review filings.