Each apartment is individually designed – one is decorated like an Indian boudoir (sleeps up to four), another has an oriental feel with Japanese "shoji" sliding doors (sleeps up to six), while the penthouse has its own roof garden (sleeps up to nine).
It's owned today by a French and Dutch couple, who have redesigned many of the rooms with a subtle Oriental design, and who run a popular seafood restaurant on the premises.
Oriental rugs on parquet floors, french windows to balcony and garden, bedrooms brimful of interest: she collects simple things from long-gone days.
The surface of the piece looks simple - ballet steps realigned by deep oriental flexings of limbs and proud profile turns of the head.
The bed: Imposing oriental carved bedhead, crisp white-cotton sheets and duvet cover, plus elegant throw and cushions.
Mandarin Oriental Tokyo (00800 28 28 38 38, mandarinoriental.com/tokyo) offers rooms from £357 per night, B&B.
"So you're back then, Scaramanga!" "Look vous prat," the driver replied, "just because I'm a bit short and look oriental, it doesn't mean I'm a Smersh agent".
Decorated in minimalist style with oriental touches and bold modern art.
In 1954, on loan from MGM, she starred in The Adventures of Hajji Baba, a piece of Hollywood exotica, playing, rather more erratically than erotically, an oriental princess being escorted across the desert by John Derek (in the title role) to marry a powerful prince.
Mr Moto was an archetypally chaste detective, an oriental Father Brown.
Elsewhere in the Fitzwilliam paintings and sculpture are exhibited in rooms decorated with fine Oriental rugs, warm wood furniture and tick-tocking Thomas Tompion clocks.
