Hospitality

Book a seat on the "Romance Car" - named for its picture windows - from Tokyo Shinjuku to Hakone-Yumoto, join the scenic Tozan Line, the highest in Japan, and debark at Gora station for Miwako Fujimoto's Gora Kadan.

In the first of a series of monocle special editions we've come up with an eclectic ranking of global travel that will act as a reference over the year ahead.

So many hotels bombard us with unnecessary extras when what we really require from them is to do the simple things well.