With the conference over, most of us went to a local izakaya (Japanese style restaurant/bar) and had a party. We broke up relatively early and I was back in my hotel before 10 p.m. I remember that I had not taken pictures of my room, so I stood in the middle and started snapping. The room was quite large by Japanese hotel standards. There was free tea and an electric pot on the shelf plus a refrigerator with free bottled water. The door led to the entrance and the bath. The bedside table had the usual phone and radio.
I opened the door and took another picture to show how large the entrance hall was. On the left was the entrance to the unit bath (toilet, bath tub, and sink) and a narrow closet for coats and shoes.
Turning in the other direction, I was facing a little sitting room with a desk and two chairs. These were traditional Japanese style, meaning that you actually were sitting on the tatami mat floor. There was a large TV that was ideally placed for viewing from the bed. It had all the local channels, plus the usual selection of pay channels: movies, sports, and soft-core porn.
Looking out the window I took a picture of the entire building for parking bicycles. Many train and subway stations in Japan have a bicycle park next to them, so that commuters do not have to block the sidewalks with their bikes.
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