Love Conquers All In Japan
Posted by: Daniela Guernica
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3:40PM, Thursday July 2nd 2009
While most businesses in Japan are crashing, the hotel industry has found a way to “stimulate” the economy. Giving new meaning to the term “love shack,” the country’s love hotels are racking up some serious tail. Chock full of “amenities” like DVD players, karaoke machines, makeup, custom rubbers and hot tubs, love hotels are open to all couples and all fetishes. The veil of sex-shame has fallen in Japan (unlike their neighbors in China), paving the way for this new multi-billion dollar business of love. And they’re getting creative! One hotel has a room with a merry-go-round in it. Not one with a circus fetish, I would much rather stay the night in the Hello Kitty-themed hotel in Osaka. [CNN]
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_jsw_
wrote on July 2 2009 @ 07:29 pm: [report]
“Rooms offer a broad assortment of features, including karaoke machines, PlayStation game consoles, DVD players, a variety of cosmetics, customized condoms and indoor-outdoor Jacuzzis. “
OK, I get most of that, at least in theory. But karaoke machines and PlayStations? I’m not sure why you’d pay by the hour for those.
“One of them, the Bonita Hotel in Isawa, boasts a 257 percent occupancy rate. Rooms can be rented for three to 24 hours.”
So, on average, two and a half couples per day per room. I bet they smell really nice.
Pseudonomtastic
wrote on July 3 2009 @ 12:57 am: [report]
These sorts of places are ALL OVER Japan, as well as other Asian ccountries, and have been around for a while. In Japan, they’re pretty clean and spacious, not at all like the nasty motels in the US. When I traveled to South Korea, I stayed in a love hotel for two nights. Though small, it was cheap as hell and a hell of a lot cleaner than the guesthouse I stayed at before then! There were lots of little freebies thrown in, too, like condoms, hair accessories and collagen masks.