The hotel room wasn’t ready but the urge was too strong. I entered the Ladies Room in the hotel lobby, found an empty cubicle and shut the door behind me. I took one look at the toilet seat and stifled a giggle: it came attached with a remote control!
Naturally, I took a photograph.
I heard several [...]

When it comes to breakfast, it never fails to amuse how one culture interprets another’s dietary requirements. For example, some of the larger hotels cater for most tastes by supplying an assortment of breakfast options for their guests. We no longer bat a sleepy eyelid at the morning smorgasbord where smoked eel sit alongside hash [...]

If Tokyo’s futuristic Odaiba gets a little too overbearing with its defiant architecture, and the sight of the Statue of Liberty overlooking the Rainbow Bridge creates confusion, you can always escape to a piece of Italy right in the heart of Odaiba.
Located just a short stroll away from the water, Venus Fort is a shopping [...]

To the uninitiated, the name Akihabara is synonymous with visions of a high-tech neighbourhood, tall buildings with flashing neon signs and hundreds of electronic shops that line up its streets. As gaudy as it may appear at first glance, for anyone passionate about technology, manga and video games, Tokyo’s gadget heaven is worth the experience.
Akihabara [...]

It was meant to be a picturesque ascent by cable car all the way to Owakudani in the Hakone region but the dense fog that enveloped the atmosphere had other plans. The temperature dropped to goose pumps under skivvies and raindrops dotted the glass windows leaving fellow travellers staring at one another in disbelief. On [...]