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  • Geihinkan Love Hotel - Love hotels in Japan are places for couples to meet up for some intimate time together in in cases where they may not have privacy.  Instead of being greeted by a receptionist, check in is machine automated for extra privacy.  Typically there is a board which shows which rooms are available.  With the competition intense, love hotels have come up with all sorts of innovative ways to compete with each other.  In addition to the usual competition strategy of offering more amenities like videos, rotating beds, costumes or sex toys some have entered the realm of theme parks.  Love hotel themes in Japan include the White House, UFOs, Christmas, underwater sea scenes, railway cars, cruise ships, doctors’ offices and even schoolrooms…. Part of the theme trend is to make the experience more lighthearted and fun which makes the situation less embarrassing by offering up exotic or funny settings.  This renders the visit into an experience rather than a sordid affair.  Couples can select a different theme for each tryst.  For better or worse, recent trends are moving away from the bizarre or comical and more towards luxury and exotic.
    love-hotel-interior.jpg
  • Geihinkan Love Hotel - Love hotels in Japan are places for couples to meet up for some intimate time together in in cases where they may not have privacy.  Instead of being greeted by a receptionist, check in is machine automated for extra privacy.  Typically there is a board which shows which rooms are available.  With the competition intense, love hotels have come up with all sorts of innovative ways to compete with each other.  In addition to the usual competition strategy of offering more amenities like videos, rotating beds, costumes or sex toys some have entered the realm of theme parks.  Love hotel themes in Japan include the White House, UFOs, Christmas, underwater sea scenes, railway cars, cruise ships, doctors’ offices and even schoolrooms…. Part of the theme trend is to make the experience more lighthearted and fun which makes the situation less embarrassing by offering up exotic or funny settings.  This renders the visit into an experience rather than a sordid affair.  Couples can select a different theme for each tryst.  For better or worse, recent trends are moving away from the bizarre or comical and more towards luxury and exotic.
    love-hotel-interior-3.jpg
  • Geihinkan Love Hotel - Love hotels in Japan are places for couples to meet up for some intimate time together in in cases where they may not have privacy.  Instead of being greeted by a receptionist, check in is machine automated for extra privacy.  Typically there is a board which shows which rooms are available.  With the competition intense, love hotels have come up with all sorts of innovative ways to compete with each other.  In addition to the usual competition strategy of offering more amenities like videos, rotating beds, costumes or sex toys some have entered the realm of theme parks.  Love hotel themes in Japan include the White House, UFOs, Christmas, underwater sea scenes, railway cars, cruise ships, doctors’ offices and even schoolrooms…. Part of the theme trend is to make the experience more lighthearted and fun which makes the situation less embarrassing by offering up exotic or funny settings.  This renders the visit into an experience rather than a sordid affair.  Couples can select a different theme for each tryst.  For better or worse, recent trends are moving away from the bizarre or comical and more towards luxury and exotic.
    love-hotel-interior-2.jpg
  • Geihinkan Love Hotel - Love hotels in Japan are places for couples to meet up for some intimate time together in in cases where they may not have privacy.  Instead of being greeted by a receptionist, check in is machine automated for extra privacy.  Typically there is a board which shows which rooms are available.  With the competition intense, love hotels have come up with all sorts of innovative ways to compete with each other.  In addition to the usual competition strategy of offering more amenities like videos, rotating beds, costumes or sex toys some have entered the realm of theme parks.  Love hotel themes in Japan include the White House, UFOs, Christmas, underwater sea scenes, railway cars, cruise ships, doctors’ offices and even schoolrooms…. Part of the theme trend is to make the experience more lighthearted and fun which makes the situation less embarrassing by offering up exotic or funny settings.  This renders the visit into an experience rather than a sordid affair.  Couples can select a different theme for each tryst.  For better or worse, recent trends are moving away from the bizarre or comical and more towards luxury and exotic.
    love-hotel-interior-4.jpg
  • Mukoden Hotel Abandoned Haikyo - Despite its lovely view of the Pacific Ocean along the coast of Izu Peninsula, the Mukoden Hotel is now an abandoned ruin.  In part, perhaps because of its unfortunate name that also refers to a battle in China during WWII.  It also may resemble a so-called "love hotel" because of its turrets, a popular castle theme of that type fo short term hotel.  Haikyo simply means ruins in Japanese and at the same time refers to the hobby known as urban exploration or URBEX popular in industrialzed societies. Haikyo enthusiasts visit abandoned towns, houses, hospitals, schools, industrial sites, theme parks or other forgotten or abandoned places.
    mukden-hotel-haikyo-2.jpg
  • Mukoden Hotel Abandoned Haikyo - Despite its lovely view of the Pacific Ocean along the coast of Izu Peninsula, the Mukoden Hotel is now an abandoned ruin.  In part, perhaps because of its unfortunate name that also refers to a battle in China during WWII.  It also may resemble a so-called "love hotel" because of its turrets, a popular castle theme of that type fo short term hotel.  Haikyo simply means ruins in Japanese and at the same time refers to the hobby known as urban exploration or URBEX popular in industrialzed societies. Haikyo enthusiasts visit abandoned towns, houses, hospitals, schools, industrial sites, theme parks or other forgotten or abandoned places.
    mukden-hotel-haikyo-1.jpg
  • Hokoku Toyokuni Garden at Osaka Castle - Kanmin Garden Shusekitei, designed by Mirei Shigemori, at Hokoku Toyokuni Shrine, Osaka Castle Grounds.   This garden deifies the stones in the tradition of Japanese gardening techniques. The area around Osaka Castle was originally called Ishiyama which is one of the themes of the garden the others being the ocean and the prosperity of Osaka and the ocean. The shape of the garden is based on a gourd which Hideyoshi used as his battle flag insignia. The large stones used in Shusekitei represent Ishiyama, the original name of the location of the shrine.
    toyokuni-hokoku-garden-05.jpg
  • Hokoku Toyokuni Garden at Osaka Castle - Kanmin Garden Shusekitei, designed by Mirei Shigemori, at Hokoku Toyokuni Shrine, Osaka Castle Grounds.   This garden deifies the stones in the tradition of Japanese gardening techniques. The area around Osaka Castle was originally called Ishiyama which is one of the themes of the garden the others being the ocean and the prosperity of Osaka and the ocean. The shape of the garden is based on a gourd which Hideyoshi used as his battle flag insignia. The large stones used in Shusekitei represent Ishiyama, the original name of the location of the shrine.
    toyokuni-hokoku-garden-03.jpg
  • Hokoku Toyokuni Garden at Osaka Castle - Kanmin Garden Shusekitei, designed by Mirei Shigemori, at Hokoku Toyokuni Shrine, Osaka Castle Grounds.   This garden deifies the stones in the tradition of Japanese gardening techniques. The area around Osaka Castle was originally called Ishiyama which is one of the themes of the garden the others being the ocean and the prosperity of Osaka and the ocean. The shape of the garden is based on a gourd which Hideyoshi used as his battle flag insignia. The large stones used in Shusekitei represent Ishiyama, the original name of the location of the shrine.
    toyokuni-hokoku-garden-02.jpg
  • Hokoku Toyokuni Garden at Osaka Castle - Kanmin Garden Shusekitei, designed by Mirei Shigemori, at Hokoku Toyokuni Shrine, Osaka Castle Grounds.   This garden deifies the stones in the tradition of Japanese gardening techniques. The area around Osaka Castle was originally called Ishiyama which is one of the themes of the garden the others being the ocean and the prosperity of Osaka and the ocean. The shape of the garden is based on a gourd which Hideyoshi used as his battle flag insignia. The large stones used in Shusekitei represent Ishiyama, the original name of the location of the shrine.
    toyokuni-hokoku-garden-07.jpg
  • Hokoku Toyokuni Garden at Osaka Castle - Kanmin Garden Shusekitei, designed by Mirei Shigemori, at Hokoku Toyokuni Shrine, Osaka Castle Grounds.   This garden deifies the stones in the tradition of Japanese gardening techniques. The area around Osaka Castle was originally called Ishiyama which is one of the themes of the garden the others being the ocean and the prosperity of Osaka and the ocean. The shape of the garden is based on a gourd which Hideyoshi used as his battle flag insignia. The large stones used in Shusekitei represent Ishiyama, the original name of the location of the shrine.
    toyokuni-hokoku-garden-06.jpg
  • Hokoku Toyokuni Garden at Osaka Castle - Kanmin Garden Shusekitei, designed by Mirei Shigemori, at Hokoku Toyokuni Shrine, Osaka Castle Grounds.   This garden deifies the stones in the tradition of Japanese gardening techniques. The area around Osaka Castle was originally called Ishiyama which is one of the themes of the garden the others being the ocean and the prosperity of Osaka and the ocean. The shape of the garden is based on a gourd which Hideyoshi used as his battle flag insignia. The large stones used in Shusekitei represent Ishiyama, the original name of the location of the shrine.
    toyokuni-hokoku-garden-04.jpg
  • Hokoku Toyokuni Garden at Osaka Castle - Kanmin Garden Shusekitei, designed by Mirei Shigemori, at Hokoku Toyokuni Shrine, Osaka Castle Grounds.   This garden deifies the stones in the tradition of Japanese gardening techniques. The area around Osaka Castle was originally called Ishiyama which is one of the themes of the garden the others being the ocean and the prosperity of Osaka and the ocean. The shape of the garden is based on a gourd which Hideyoshi used as his battle flag insignia. The large stones used in Shusekitei represent Ishiyama, the original name of the location of the shrine.
    toyokuni-hokoku-garden-01.jpg