sekainozomi ([info]sekainozomi) wrote,
@ 2007-12-04 13:38:00
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The Windsor Hotel Toya
Honestly speaking, the Windsor Hotel Toya is just a big ol' luxurious Western-style hotel sitting on top of a mountain overlooking a spectacular volcano-made lake.

My spousal unit and I made a detour one day last year and went to visit it.  It was closed. In fact, they'd gone bankrupt or something. So we returned to the mountain one day to try to get a good view of Lake Toya and found the hotel had re-opened. Excellent. Now I could do what I meant to do the first time....collect background scenery for my friend in Greece. She is doing photo manipulations for my fan fiction. My priorities are straight! As I said before, this hotel will be the main venue for next year's G-8 summit.

I'm sorry these images are not dial-up friendly!

hotel sign



entrance
It was a little blurry in there! Too much luxury...maybe?

plant

wall

from top

The tea room.

harpist

The harpist is a Russian. Of course, I didn't care one way or another, but the staff went out of their way to point this
out to me, so I'm pointing it out to you! She has very long legs. I hate her! No...she smiled nicely at me!

lake

Lake Toya and the harpist.

 stones

This is still Japan...rocks are obligatory, too.

view from the WC

The View from the potty!


WC view 2

Another view...from near the potty!

scenery

This was really pretty. Too bad the light ruined the shot...consistently.

idol

Hmmm....

beads

Passageway.

scenery


scenery 3


bike

This Ferrari bike costs a ridiculous amount of money. I bet it doesn't ride better than any other bike.

lobby


stairs

This would have been nice if Scarlet O'Hara had come down the stairs.

piano



That's all folks. There were many more  pictures... I thought I'd spare you that. We didn't check out the rooms because we had somewhere else to be. In any case, this is where the G8 leaders will hammer out the fate of the world.

Next up...Mt. Yotei (Hokkaido's version of Mt. Fuji).











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[info]mark_fan
2007-12-08 11:15 am UTC (link)
An impressive place. The view onto the lake is spectacular. Such luxury...

Sometimes I'm wondering what it'd feel like to be able to afford this.

It's a part/part thing. On the one hand it looks awesome and the idea of being catered to constantly and treated like a princess can be quite seductive. On the other hand this kind of perfectly styled beauty, as good as it looks, hardly brings across a homely, cozy feeling. I suspect I would feel more like in a museum, in terms of staring admiringly at all this luxury and perfection, than feel able to truly relax...

That passageway looks intriguing. Would never have expected something like that in a hotel. :)

Regardless, it's a gorgeous place!

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