Staying in a Japanese Love Hotel
// May 30th, 2009 // Japan, Travel
Ever since we’d heard about Japanese Love hotels we planned to try one out for the night, or hour. It turned out to be a bit of a saga, as we spent half a day in the Love Hotel areas of Tokyo looking for something tacky and nasty enough to meet our requirements. It seems that ordinary Japanese people who just want to get away and have some quiet time with their partners were more interested in a hot tub and a Plasma TV than the Hello Kitty themed S&M dungeon that we had in mind. More fool them.
So disappointed we read about a place called Gang Gang Snowmans which was in Osaka, near Kyoto where we were going to head anyway so we diverted there to check it out. Apparently it had an old Cadillac on the roof you could hire for the hour, subway car, underwater themed rooms, a dungeon all kinds of awesome weird tacky fetish theming that would have made such a great post/story. So we went to Osaka and walked and walked, and checked the map, and walked, and checked the map, and went back where we had already walked, and asked people, and walked, and went back and asked the same people, who told us to walk, and walk and walk and then I mean hours later, we were so exhausted and we hadn’t found anything cringe worthy just ordinary fancy hotel rooms, maybe with an adult toys vending machine in the room, but not much more risque than that. It turned out that we couldn’t find Gang Gang Snowman because it had closed down a few years before. So instead we checked in to Hotel Love (kudos on the name guys, international, yet also classy with a suggestive underlayer of perversion! two thumbs up). I made a tour of our room that you can watch now if you like, don’t worry its safe for work:
Japanese Love Hotel Room Tour from adam fletcher on Vimeo.
Here are some other videos’ we took while we were there
Annett bashing things in the Arcade:
Annett playing in the arcade from adam fletcher on Vimeo.
I can’t imagine a game being developed that could so perfectly match the personality and skillset of an individual, its like they reached into her brain and plucked the idea for her perfect game, the game she was born to play.
Shinjuku Crossing:
Shinjuku Crossing from adam fletcher on Vimeo.
Apparently the busiest in the world and the one place we saw in Japan that was closest to mental images I had in my head before we arrived.
Annett trying Baseball (batting):
Japan – Baseball batting practice. from adam fletcher on Vimeo.
Um, well, perhaps not a natural. Lets try pitching instead:
Japan – Baseball pitching practice from adam fletcher on Vimeo.
Hum, maybe leave it there huh (I should also confess while I was marginally better at Batting I was no better at Pitching).
One more post on Weird Japan is planned.
Possibly related, hopefully entertaining other posts:
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Annett
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fletchy
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Slingshot RPM
