Visitors to a Tokyo hotel are greeted and checked in by a robot with celluloid skin and blinking eyes, writes Chris Nelson. Calgary Tokyo — Across the desk, our eyes met and my heart leapt. Then, she blinked and broke the spell, leaving in its place a vague worry about the ongoing drive to hike Alberta’s minimum wage.
Now, down the years, I’ve set foot in some weird and wonderful places, but never one quite as strange – literally and figuratively – as the Henn na Hotel in the upscale Ginza district of Tokyo.
Loosely translated, the name means “strange,” and […]
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