Room with a View.

On clear nights the view from the rooms of the Yokohama Royal Park Hotel can be breathtaking, with Mount Fuji looming in the distance. The hotel in Yokohama occupies the top floors of Japan's tallest building, the Landmark Tower, and one might at first feel slightly queasy at the idea of sleeping at cloud level. With every elevator ride your ears tell you that they would prefer a decompression chamber, but it is something one gets used to rather quickly. Mount Fuji is not always visible, but in the morning and at sunset it can be spectacular. The Landmark Tower is located in a planned city within a city, Minato Mirai 21, consisting of a cluster of tall buildings surrounded by an amusement park, malls, and the Yokohama Museum of Art.

Fuji-san, daylight.

Fuji-san, sunset.