Tokyo Paralympics: Wheelchair-friendly rooms tough to find

This should be viewed as a positive from the Olympics. A kick up the backside that will make Tokyo better.

Lots of actual progress is mundane and unsexy. It is day to day things that help people, not shiny prestige things like stadiums.

It's sad that hotel owners are reluctant to modify their rooms. It's not as if people with disabilities will disappear after the Olympics.

Can this be really true for the largest metropolis in the world - a hi-tech fantasmagoria.

Only 700 wheelchair accessible hotel rooms......but maybe as low as 30???

Someone tell me this is wrong.

Tokyo's infrastructure definitely sucks when it comes to accommodating the handicapped. However, I must say it is improving. 10-15 years ago you were lucky to find a train station with an elevator. It was very common to see station staff carrying people in wheelchairs up and down stairs to and from the platforms. It has improved a lot, but I still see it at at a few stations. I've often helped ladies carry prams up stairs at train stations too. Hopefully, the Paralympics will improve the situation for the handicapped even further in Tokyo.

There are a lot of bizarre floor designs in Japan. I'm sure many have walked into a building and see an elevator just beyond a 3-step staircase. Why couldn't they just make a ramp? Many restrooms are designed this way too (train stations / old department stores)

With Japan ageing at a quicker rate, it is the older Japanese that need improved access too!