Capsule hotels for those who don't know represent an intriguing concept in space-saving creativity. Rather than having a room, each person gets his/her own "capsule". The capsules are stacked side by side, and one on top of the other - as you can see from the photos below.
Most capsule hotels do not accept women, as they were originally intended for salary men who missed the last train home at night, and are therefore only equipped with one bath and one set of facilities. In recent years, though, more and more capsule hotels have adapted to accomodate women as well.
We stayed at the Asakusa Riverside Capsule Hotel (http://www.asakusa-capsule.jp/english/), which is also apparently popular with non-Japanese visitors. I was at first a little disappointed by the lack of many Japanese, by actually, the travellers were really fun to talk to, especially as we sat on the roof top, enjoying the night view, until the early morning hours.
2 comments:
How fun! I'm glad women can stay too, now. I will definitely want to do that when we get to Japan again.
Very cool and only $35 a night gotta love that.
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