Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

At last some pictorial evidence…



The hotel I stayed in when I first arrived in Tokyo. This hotel is huge – its got something like four or five towers, the largest containing around 2000 rooms.

The view from my room.

My first challenge on arrival (apart from finding the reception desk on the seventh floor) was to work out how to use the toilet. Thankfully the one in my room had instructions in English too, and brail. There seems to be quite a lot of brail here, but is it the same as the brail we have back home? And if not, is there any kind of commonality?

There’ll be some more soon, have a poke around if you’re impatient enough to not be able to wait for the explanations.


5 comments

  1. That’ll be what the “Bidet” button’s for then (no one really knows what to do with a bidet).

    It probably pages the Yakuza too, no doubt.

  2. Bearing in mind that my first encounter with it was when I’d been awake for 28hrs, of which I’d spent 12 squished up in cattle class, was jetlagged to hell and hadn’t got a clue about where I was. The first thing I did was be rather surprised by being showered with water…at which point I noticed there were some buttons, thankfully one was labelled STOP in big friendly letters…which is all I needed to know.

    Not all of their toilets have such attachments.

  3. It would but I didn’t have time to search for one of those. And lets face it, when you’ve got a squirt like that going on anything that says STOP is going to look friendly.

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