The Hamacho hotel has an accessible bathroom (room 617). We were there a couple of weeks ago. It’s 10 minutes on level ground from the metro station (Suitengumae, Z10) and the Tokyo City Air Terminal. There’s a good 24 hour supermarket opposite and a bakery (Boulangerie Django) who do excellent croissants and pastries a few yards away.

Josh is correct, there’s no simple solution to the location of the wheelchair space. What I found was that if there were no signs on the platform barriers look on the platform edge to see if there’s a strip of black rubber extending it for easier access. This isn’t the perfect answer but it’ will at least make it easier to get on board. We…

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The disabled support offering varies between airlines. You need to check what support is available. Without making a point, this should have been checked before booking a ticket just in case it is virtually non-existent. As you are quoting a 14 hour flight it is possible that you are travelling from the UK. If you are, and you have booked…

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On our recent trip to Japan we used Google maps to find restaurants. Many were listed as not accessible but a check of the photos of the restaurant often showed that the only impediment was a single step which was easily surmountable by our wheelchair. We found restaurants invariably helpful.

A word of caution about the use of lockers. They are brilliant but you need to read the fine print carefully. They are intended as a short term storage facility, think hours, not days. You can only open the door once, to re-close requires another payment. Also most expire at a fixed time at night.