travel42 Hotel Review: Nobu Ryokan Malibu

Nobu Ryokan Malibu travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Planted beachfront on exclusive Malibu's most exclusive strand, Carbon Beach—known locally as Billionaire's Beach—this is Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison's business acumen in full stride.

Surrounded by eight-figure homes owned by red-carpet regulars, Mr. Ellison has partnered up with Nobu's famed investors, Chef Nobu and actor Robert De Niro among them, to create a privileged beach house that makes the pioneering Malibu Beach Inn look like the nan...