A glittering bathtub made of gold, worth 120 million yen (NT$32,578,964) has been stolen from a resort hotel near Tokyo.
A worker at Kominato Hotel Mikazuki in Kamogawa, south of Tokyo, notified police the fancy tub was missing from the hotel's guest bathroom on the 10th floor of its building, according to a local police official who only gave his surname, Ogawa.
The round tub, 1.21m in diameter and 71cm tall, was made of 18-karat gold weighing 80kg, Ogawa said.
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The tub, flanked by two crane statues, has been a main feature of the hotel's shared men's bathroom. Visitors can take a dip in the tub, but it is only available a few hours a day "for security reasons,'' according to the hotel chain's website.
When the tub was not available for guest's use the door to the room was locked with chains, but the chains were found cut off.
The bath tub was not riveted to the floor and police said they found no signs that the heavy bathtub had been dragged out of the hotel.
The police said, "We really don't know how this happened at this stage. But what we can assume now is that more than one person was involved in this incident."
"We have no witness information and there are no video cameras,'' Ogawa said. "We have no idea who took it.''
A similar bathtub in the hotel's shared bathroom for women is still in place, he said.
The cranes standing next to the bath were left untouched.
價值一億兩千萬日圓（新台幣三千兩百五十七萬八千九百六十四元）的一座金光閃閃的黃金浴盆，在鄰近東京的一間度假旅館遭竊。
當地的小川警官說，東京南方鴨川市的「小湊旅館三日月」一名員工通報警方，這座豪華浴缸已從十樓的客用浴室不翼而飛。
小川警官說，這座直徑一點二一公尺、高七十一公分的圓形浴缸是由18K金打造而成，重達八十公斤。
兩旁各佇立一隻白鶴雕像的這座黃金浴缸，一直都是這家旅館大眾男湯室的主要賣點。這家連鎖旅館的網站上說，遊客可以在裡頭泡澡，但「基於安全考量」，一天只開放幾個小時。
這座浴缸不開放遊客使用時，浴室大門會用鏈條上鎖，但鎖鏈已被人切斷。
浴缸並未被釘在地上，警方說無跡象顯示浴缸已被拖離旅館。
小川警官說︰「我們目前對事情如何發生一無所悉。但推測不只一人涉案。」
「我們無目擊者，也無監視器畫面，」他說︰「無法得悉竊賊身分。」
他說，這家旅館大眾女湯室的黃金浴缸仍在原處。
遭竊的黃金浴缸兩側的白鶴雕像也原封不動、完好如初。（綜合外電/翻譯︰賴美君）
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