A bathtub made of gold and valued at $1 million dollars (120 million Yen) has been stolen from a bathroom in a Tokyo luxury hotel.

The round tub is made of 18-carat gold and wieghs 176 pounds. A worker at the Kominata Hotel Mikazuki in southern Tokyo discovered that the gold bathtub was missing from a bathroom on the 10th floor of the hotel.

The golden tub was a feature of the hotel in a shared bathroom with limited access to male guests. Although guests staying at the hotel could bathe in it, for security reasons, access to the shared bathroom was restricted.

The tub was flanked by statues but not riveted to the floor, the thieves appear to have cut through a chain that was intended to secure it.

Investigators believe the robbery took place at night, sometime between 2 and 9am.

AP/AFP