Henn Na Hotel In Chiba: See Dinosaurs And Robots Close Up!

Now you've checked in and as you're heading to your room, you can see a fish robot swimming inside an aquarium. While emitting a colorful light, this robot leisurely moves around the water tank. Just watching this fish made me feel at ease.

I also came across a robot window washer. Methodically, and with great care, it washed and wiped the window. This is one hard working robot!

Though it appears that robots are in charge of all duties on the premises, please rest assured that there are also human staff working here, looking after the hotel's twenty-four hour front desk.

Unique Rooms Stocked with the Latest Conveniences

The hotel guest rooms can accommodate single occupants all the way up to groups of four people. All rooms are unique and the upmost in care is given to the tiniest detail. For example, the bed mattresses. Superior mattress materials that breathe well and offer good cushion support while distributing body pressure evenly, are used to ensure that guests have a comfortable and sound sleep.

In addition, the toilet and bath are separate. The fact that there's both a bathtub and an area for scrubbing and washing your body beforehand, felt like one more example of the hotel's consideration for their guests.

What? Is this also a robot? It sure is! Inside the guest rooms there's a concierge robot named Tapia. It will give you all kinds of useful information, including the day's weather report and your own personal fortune telling. Tapia communicates with hotel guests through the process of voice recognition.

Tapia can also play janken (rocks, paper, scissors game). It looks like children are going to be delighted interacting with this robot.

The hotel also offers guests the use of a closet-type cleaning machine. For guests who have gone to Tokyo Disneyland or any of the other local recreational facilities, being able to clean your dirty clothes at the end of the day is a handy service. Only a limited number of rooms have this service so please check with the hotel for details.

One optional service is the rental of VR (virtual reality) glasses that give you a glimpse into the world of dinosaurs. With the aid of CG (computer graphics), the dinosaurs have been recreated true to life, and you can see them from the air above and on the ground in a three hundred sixty degree view, making this a powerful and unforgettable experience. The visuals are accompanied by a story line, so children can also enjoy this.

In the hotel corridors near the elevators, capsule-toy vending machines, some which have come from overseas, are lined up. Insert your coins and you'll get a nice Japanese souvenir.

Conveniently Located near Disneyland

A convenient location is one more attractive feature of the Henn na Hotel-Maihama Tokyo Bay. It's only eighteen minutes on foot from Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea.

To get to the hotel, take a Tokyo Bay City bus (number 37 or 9) from bus terminal number 2 at JR Maihama Station, then go as far as the Fujimi 5-chome bus stop and disembark (total time is about four minutes). From the bus terminal at JR Urayasu Station, take a Tokyo Bay City bus (number 9), then go as far as the Fujimi 5-chome bus stop and disembark (total time is about fifteen minutes).

The hotel also has a parking lot. However, please note that reservations are required ahead of time, via the hotel's official home page.

The Henn na Hotel makes full use of the latest robots and technology. But what are the origins of the hotel's name? The hotel's name includes the word "henn" which is also part of the Japanese word "henka", meaning change and transformation.

From what we've been told, the hotel hopes to transform the comfort level, enjoyment, sleeping comfort, and peace of mind of all guests, while increasing its efficiency.

So the hotel's name embodies the sense of spirit and commitment shown by staff towards guests. From here on in as well, the Henn na Hotel will surely continue to undergo further developments, making it a place worth paying attention to.

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