Our Room at the Osaka Hilton

Of all the photos I found at various Web sites, this one is the best approximation of what our room looked like, except that ours was oriented in the opposite direction.
 

The light from the window tricked the camera, so this is rather dark, but it does give an idea of what the seating area was like. We found we quite liked the combination of shoji (“rice paper”) and fusuma (solid) screens at the windows. We discovered that if we slid the right-hand screens to the center, a fire exit was revealed.

The nightstand in this and most of the other hotels we stayed in had a built-in clock-radio and switches for various lights, including a nightlight in the nightstand itself.

When we arrived in the room, a plate of fruit awaited us on the little table between the chairs. This became very welcome during the long wait for breakfast!
 

This view toward the door shows the conventional Western arrangement of the room. The only telling detail to suggest we were not in the United States was the presence of an electric kettle instead of a coffeemaker in the mini-bar alcove.

One of the amenities offered by the hotel was “bilingual television.” This amounted to CNN and perhaps BBC-TV in English, which we found tantalizingly disorienting because of the time difference. Barney kept saying there ought to be some way to make a killing in the stock market since it was so much later in the day that we should already know what had happened!


 

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