Longevity.
Clinics in a forest above a lake, a medical gym behind a Mayfair door, and a full-body checkup Japan has run since 1954. Where the long life is looked after.
Clinics in a forest above a lake, a medical gym behind a Mayfair door, and a full-body checkup Japan has run since 1954. Where the long life is looked after.
1931Clinique La Prairie opens
Clinique La Prairie opened in Montreux in 1931, in a manor above Lake Geneva. Its head doctor, Paul Niehans, gave his name to cellular therapy, and the clinic counts more than 5,000 patients who came for his treatments. It still works from the same shore, and its programs today are built around longevity.
2017The Waldhotel opens in the forest
On the ridge of the Bürgenstock, across the water from Lucerne, the Waldhotel Health & Medical Excellence opened on December 22, 2017. Matteo Thun designed it as a forest hotel: 160 rooms and suites set into the slope, with views of the Alps to the south. Behind the spa sits an accredited hospital for checkups, sports medicine, dentistry and recovery after surgery.
2017The Bürgenstock resort reopens
Lake Lucerne has been a place of rest since the first steamers. The Bürgenstock resort, high above the water opposite Lucerne, reopened in 2017 with its Alpine Spa. Across the lake in Weggis, Chenot Palace runs its programs on the shore.
North of the Alps, Lanserhof runs its house on the Tegernsee, about an hour south of Munich.
1969The first Engadin Skimarathon
The Engadin Skimarathon has crossed the frozen lakes from Maloja to S-chanf, past St. Moritz, every March since 1969. In summer the same valleys turn to hiking and cycling, and Zermatt and Verbier open their high trails from June.
2018Lanserhof opens at The Arts Club
Lanserhof began in 1984, when a small hotel near Innsbruck became a health center. In 2018 it opened its medical gym inside The Arts Club on Dover Street, in Mayfair, London: 6 floors, a medical fitness studio, rooms for personal training and yoga, and an MRI on the floors above. Its house on the Tegernsee, south of Munich, is where the full cure is taken.
3,048 mice Q on the Gaislachkogl
On the summit of the Gaislachkogl above Sölden, in Tyrol, a glass cube holds ice Q, a restaurant at 3,048 meters. In Spectre it played the Hoffler Clinic, the private clinic on the mountain. Das Central, the five-star hotel in the village, sits at the foot of the lift.
1,898 mMount Yotei, Ezo Fuji
Above Lake Toya in Hokkaido, The Windsor Hotel Toya opened in 1993 and took its present name in 2002. In July 2008 it hosted the G8 summit. To the west rises Mount Yotei, 1,898 meters, called Ezo Fuji for its shape, with the snow fields of Niseko at its foot.
1954The first ningen dock
Japan invented the full-body checkup as a stay. The ningen dock, named for a ship in dry dock, began on July 12, 1954, at the First National Hospital of Tokyo. A day or two of scans and tests is still how many executives in Tokyo keep an eye on the long run.
Southwest of the city, in the hot spring valleys of Hakone, the Fujiya Hotel opened at Miyanoshita in 1878, one of the earliest Western-style resorts in Japan, built for foreign guests come to take the waters.
Montreux🇨🇭 Switzerland
Lucerne🇨🇭 Switzerland
London🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Munich🇩🇪 Germany
Tokyo🇯🇵 Japan
St. Moritz🇨🇭 SwitzerlandSources. La Prairie, brand heritage · Bürgenstock Resort · Chenot Palace Weggis · Lanserhof Tegernsee · Engadin Skimarathon · Hospitality Net, the Waldhotel opens · ingenhoven architects, Lanserhof at The Arts Club · Sölden, ice Q · Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Hokkaido Toyako Summit · The beginning of ningen dock · Historic Hotels Worldwide, the Fujiya Hotel. Read October 2026. A record of places, houses and dates, published as research. Patrician.ch has no commercial relationship with any house named here.
It opened in Montreux in 1931, under Dr Paul Niehans.
A forest hotel by Matteo Thun with an accredited hospital inside, opened on December 22, 2017, above Lake Lucerne.
At ice Q, the glass restaurant at 3,048 meters on the Gaislachkogl above Sölden, Austria.
In Weggis, on the shore of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.
Every March, from Maloja to S-chanf across the frozen lakes of the Upper Engadine.
It has run since 1969.
Japan's full-body health checkup, taken as a short stay.
It began on July 12, 1954, at the First National Hospital of Tokyo.
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