Japanese Love Hotels – A Quick Guide By Shane A Jones

One thing many foreign visitors to Japan look forward to experiencing are Japan’s infamous love hotels. Love hotels are erotic, exciting, bizarre, and uniquely Japanese! Here’s a quick guide to all you need to know in order to experience the unusual but sensual world of Japanese love hotels.

What are Japanese Love Hotels?

In Japan, living quarters are often cramped and walls are thin. Also, unlike in the U.S. and some other Western countries, it is not uncommon for single Japanese adults to live at home with their parents. These factors necessitate a separate private space for intimate encounters. Love hotels are the solution to these problems.

Where to Find Love Hotels in Japan:

Japan’s love hotels are located in all of Japan’s major cities, and even in rural areas. They are usually clustered together. The most well-known cluster of Japanese love hotels is “Love Hotel Hill” in Shibuya, Tokyo. You’ll recognize these hotels by the creative architecture and signs outside the hotels advertising room rates.

Japanese Love Hotel Room Rates:

The room rates for these hotels are displayed on signs just outside the hotel entrance. These signs will advertise two types of rates: a short-term “rest” rate that gives you and your partner three hours or so to make full use of the facilities; and a full-night “Stay” rate that allows you to enjoy your room for an entire night. Rest rates typically begin at around 3,000 yen or so; Stay rates range from 6,000 to 12,000 yen per night, depending upon the location, the quality of the hotel, and the day of the week.

Reserving a Love Hotel Room:

Go inside the lobby, and you’ll see a panel that displays the available rooms and their rates, including a picture of the room’s “theme.” Select your room. Then go over to the lobby window and pay for the room. In order to ensure that the hotel experience is discreet, the window is built so that the clerk cannot see you and vice versa. Pay, take the room key, and head off to your room.

Inside a Japanese Love Hotel Room:

Most standard Japanese love hotel rooms are equipped with a sizeable bed, a jacuzzi bath, toiletries, a fancy lighting and stereo sound system, a small fridge, a hot pot, a TV and karaoke system, and off course, a condom (you may want to bring extras though!). Many hotel rooms also have unique themes, ranging from Hello Kitty to hentai and even mock doctors’ offices and classrooms complete with nurse and schoolgirl uniforms!

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