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The story
It’s come to light that former AKB48 member and TV personality Tomomi Itano filmed a video in the changing room attached to the Ritz-Carlton’s large communal bath, sparking discussion on 5ch’s “Everything Live” board. According to a Yahoo! News report, the filming was reportedly done with the hotel’s prior permission. Still, many on the thread argued that filming in a changing room shared with other guests is a problem in itself, with “unacceptable” being a common refrain regardless of whether permission was granted. Others defended the move, noting it’s not unusual for high-end hotels to accommodate this kind of filming for media purposes, leaving the thread split.
What people said
Re: #3
Huh?
What do you even think the Ritz is?
How poor are you guys, seriously
What do you think the Ritz even is
Lol, the can't-afford-a-Ritz crowd getting salty
Sorry, I've got no interest in the Ritz so I admit I've never stayed there, but I've stayed at the Mandarin in Nihonbashi and the Four Seasons in Otemachi plenty of times
Tokyo has way more impressive hotels than that, so hearing 'the Ritz' just gets an 'okay, and?' out of me
That's because Tokyo's luxury hotels let you do a standing buffet party for 5,000 yen a head 😁
The Ritz is Osaka's top-tier hotel, sure
Tokyo has several on par with it or better
But this story is actually about the one in Tochigi
Even if what Itano's saying is true, that's a separate problem
This isn't a bath attached to her room
Getting permission to film in a shared bathhouse changing room just isn't normal
Or did Ritz-Carlton staff stand guard to keep other guests out?
Do they really go that far just for one guest's video?
Either way it's terrible
Itano: 'I was given special permission to film'
Whether that's a lie or the truth, it's bad news either way
Oops lol, better wrap it up here before some lawyer calls me… lol
As long as no one else is in frame and she got permission from the building's management beforehand, isn't that fine?
What about the bath photos on the hotel's own website, are those a problem too?
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/5073c854ee1d46a7e8b26cf7309daa6f87128a0d
Apparently they did give filming permission
Even if no one else could get in during that time, allowing filming in a place like that in the first place is the issue
A high-end foreign hotel brand doing that is going to lose people's trust
It's not like 'they gave permission' automatically makes it okay
Approving filming in a place like that is strange to begin with
Taking an overnight trip mid-season, must be nice to have that kind of standing
He must be doing pretty well for himself
That's really reaching
Every hotel does this when media shows up
Since when is an influencer 'media'?
https://x.com/daasuu777/status/2096222837619208228?s=46&t=OedJeTTD2Jxegi1uOrlO8w
A true believer has descended
Or maybe it's that lawyer everyone keeps mentioning?
It'd be sad if that's actually her husband
Definitely someone connected to her
Engaging with that guy is how you lose
Same, I thought it was just the crackers
They don't actually throw those, but that is where the cracker's name came from
Glad there was no social media when I was a kid
Because my parents were pretty clueless too
Feels like this is setting up a flag for her wandering off and becoming an unmanageable handful down the road
That's when the inn itself asks them to film and lets them in specially during hours when no one else is around
She's about as far from a suspicious trespasser as you can get
Anyone would hate being filmed somewhere they might end up naked on camera
Background and key points of debate
The hotel in question appears to be the Ritz-Carlton in Nikko, Tochigi, and the focus of the discussion was that filming in the shared changing room attached to the large communal bath was reportedly done with “prior permission.” What split the thread wasn’t so much whether permission existed, but whether “filming itself is inappropriate in a shared space, permission or not” — commenters like those at posts 25, 37, and 40 kept up their criticism even while accepting that permission had been granted, while others, like post 45, defended it as not unusual for media appearances. What’s easy to overlook is that a shared changing room is a space where other guests could be present at any moment, and even with the hotel’s blessing, there’s no way to get the consent of any third party who happens to be there at the time. The side debate comparing Osaka’s and Tokyo’s luxury hotels is a tangent separate from the main issue and should be read apart from the question of whether the filming itself was appropriate.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Everything Live) thread “[Sad News] Ritz-Carlton Reportedly OK with Filming in Bathhouse Changing Room.”
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