A group representing disabled people in Japan has said the doorway width stipulated in an amendment proposed for Tokyo's barrier-free ordinance for hotels is unlikely to be wide enough for many wheelchairs.
The amendment, which the Tokyo Metropolitan Government aims to put into effect in September — less than a year before the 2020 Olympics — will require new hotels with more than 1,000 square meters of total floor space as well as facilities expanding by 1,000 sq. meters from the beginning of September to ensure guest room doorways are more than 80 centimeters wide and bathroom doorways are over 70 cm wide.
The metropolitan government set the requirement based on the Japanese Industrial Standards for wheelchairs.