3x Amazing 1990 Toshiba Traction Elevators/Lifts@Isezakicho Washington Hotel***, Yokohama, Japan
Filmed in December 2015. This is a very nice three-star hotel in Yokohama, Japan completed in October 1990, with 18 floors and 399 rooms (near JR Kannai railway station and next to Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line chōjamachi Station, also just one station away from Sakuragicho (Minato Mirai 21 district with Landmark Tower, Queen's square and other prominent building). This was the hotel that we originally planned to book due to a great value (2 rooms for 13 nights), but somebody booked the two last rooms before we could get to it, so we stayed in Kawasaki instead at the Kawasaki Central Hotel.
Luckily, no key card was needed here and the reception is on the 2nd floor, so it was easy to go and film these original 1980s-style Toshiba elevators built in 1990. They are amazing, with nice interior, elevator halls, hall lanterns, and touch buttons, also old-style acoustic chimes. Two of the elevators go down to the entrance level on floor 1, but they always stop on the reception level (2) when going past it. There is also an 18th floor (probably a restaurant or conference rooms) but it was locked-off unfortunately.
Location: Yokohama Isezakicho Washington Hotel*** (near Kannai and Minato Mirai 21 district)), Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Greater Tokyo, Japan
Brand: Toshiba
Type: Traction
Year installed: 1990 (completed in October 1990)
Floors served: 17 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, (18)) - 1 elevator
18 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, (18))
Serial: Unknown
Capacity: 13 persons or 900 kg