Probably the closest that I ever got to a hotel-top bar was right here in Toronto decades ago when some of my university buddies and I managed somehow to get a drink at a bar among the higher floors of the Four Seasons Hotel. The Toronto International Film Festival wasn't happening at that time so, no, unfortunately no celebrity sightings but the atmosphere and décor were there: lots of wood, brown leather chairs and a couple of fireplaces. Can't even remember what I had in terms of a cocktail.
In Japan, I've been to premium hotels and I've been to bars, but I've never been to a hotel-top bar but I can imagine that it is primo classy and in all likelihood primo pricey. Probably even the peanuts there require an installment plan for payment. However, I've mentioned...usually through a City Pop song...about how sitting in one of those plush watering holes must feel like.
Well, for some vicarious listening on this topic, I grant you Keiko Mizukoshi's（水越恵子）"Sanjuu-ni Kai no Bar" (The 32nd Floor Bar). A track from the singer-songwriter's October 1997 album "In my life", this aural libation contains some mellow Latin spice although I wouldn't consider the song a City Pop tune. It's just a nocturnal number to sip your cocktail to while musing about life at the top of West Shinjuku accommodations.
I am not really a drinker so I haven't been to many pubs/bars and none of those that I have been to have been very swanky or ritzy however despite all that I do dig Sanjuu-ni Kai no Bar as it reminds me of some of the latin pop I might have heard back in the 1990's from Ricky iglesias, Jon secada, maybe even Gloria Estefan.
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