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$1M gold tub stolen from hotel in Japan

2007-06-06 10:52:40

Wed May 30 2007, 4:20 AM ET

TOKYO - A glittering bathtub made of gold worth nearly $1 million has been

stolen from a resort hotel, an official said Wednesday.

A worker at Kominato Hotel Mikazuki in Kamogawa, south of Tokyo, notified

police that the fancy tub was missing from the hotel's guest bathroom on the

10th floor, according to a local police official who only gave his surname,

Ogawa.

The round tub, worth $987,000, is made of 18-karat gold and weighs 176 pounds.

The tub, flanked by two crane statues, has been a main feature of the hotel's

shared bathroom. Visitors can take a dip in the tub, but it is only available a

few hours a day "for security reasons," the hotel's Web site said.

Someone apparently cut the chain attached to the door of a small section of the

bathroom where the bathtub was placed, but not riveted, and made off with the

tub, Ogawa said.

"We have no witness information and there are no video cameras," he said. "We

have no idea who took it," the official said.