Out after 10 Years (20): The Sliding Phone

I do not believe in ghosts, paranormal activities, spirits and basically nothing that cannot be scientifically explained and physically perceived. With that said, something happened in the first hotel I stayed in during my trip to Japan which caused a sort of surprise. Japanese hotels are usually small. At least the ones I stayed at, majority of them were small. Let us review them all, one by one. It also helps the people who have a plan to go to Japan to, perhaps, select one of the below ones:\

1) Galois Hotel, Shinjuku, Tokyo: Nice and helpful staff. They understand a few English words. A little issue with cleaning but not bad. Just a little dust. Quiet. Less than three minutes to Shin-Okubo train station that can take you anywhere in Japan. Cheap shopping and cheap eats around. It's not a great neighbourhood but it's not bad either. It's not luxury. Smallest of the hotel. No window opens to the street or yard. Somehow a foreign worker neighbourhood, mostly Nepalese and Pakistanis.  The latter are a nuisance. 

2) Hotel Sagano, Ukyo, Kyoto: Huge room but old building. I have a separate post for this hotel.

3) Hotel CLS-SS, Hiroshima: Great hotel: Clean, specious, lots of stuff including kitchen and all the required appliances

4) Hotel Forza, Nagasaki: Nice hotel, great staff, quiet, close to shopping and some other places that you would want to see, small room.

5) Hotel Tobu, Narita International Hotel: Clean and nice hotel, good room, bigger than other numbers 1 and 4. Food service is not good. Shuttle service is great. 

The house in The Grudge (2004). I did not see many houses as big as this anywhere in Japan. The movie is a remake of the Japanese version which was made in 2002

Now that I have introduces the hotels, lets go to the telephone issue. I took two phones to Japan: My phone which is an old Blackberry and a new phone which bought before the trip a Motorola. The latter was used to navigate after I bought an SIM Card. The old one, mainly, for photography. I kept them both on the desk in the first hotel. A couple of nights, after I went to bed and I don't remember if I was asleep or was going to go, I heard the phone falling on the floor! I was too tired to think about that, usually. So, I'd would go back to sleep! 

You might have seen The Grudge. This is a movie that I cannot watch again even today. It's a very creepy story that happens in Japan and I don't want to spoil it but the Japanese have lots of movies like that and I don't know why I'm saying this but why should something like that happen? The table was not inclined. Why didn't the other phone slide?

(Photo, top: Hotel CSL-SS in Hiroshima was the best and nicest of hotels in my trip to Japan)