Downtown Tokyo hotel welcomes pet owners and their best friends

For $400 a night, animals and humans pampered to their every whim

20220215N Villa Fontaine

The Inumo Shibakoen hotel comes replete with an indoor dog run. (Photo by Yoshihiro Hara)

YOSHIHIRO HARA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Faced with soaring vacancies as the COVID-19 pandemic has ground much of Japan's tourism to a halt, one hotel operator decided it was time to learn a new trick. Instead of just catering to people, the hotel in downtown Tokyo would also cater to their best friends -- well at least the ones on four legs.

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