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Room with a view?

It’s a difficult time for many businesses, and that ever-so coined buzzword ‘innovative’ seems to have reached new depths in Japan - where trainspotters can now get a room with a view of the train track.

The rooms are advertised as having a “rail view”, with several Tokyo hotels seeing the normally annoying rattle of windows as a way to entice the estimated 20,000 train lovers in Japan.

There’s even schemes being offered that guarantee a view of the station, and a lovely little paperweight made up of real railway track. Oh my.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .