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  • Love Hotel Zebra - Love hotels are simply places for couples to meet up for some intimate time together in crowded cities where they may not have private space.  Sometimes family matters prevent the amorous from hosting visitors.  Lovers turn up at a love hotel and instead of being greeted by a receptionist, check in is usually automated by machine for extra privacy.  Typically there is a board which shows which rooms are available.  Those that you can select at that given moment are illuminated.  You can select a “rest” which is for a 90 minute quickie, or a “stay” for longer overnight sessions.  With the competition intense, love hotels have come up with all sorts of innovative ways to compete with each other.  Other than the usual strategy of offering more amenities like videos, rotating beds, costumes or sex toys some have entered the realm of theme parks.  Love hotel themes 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 and more towards luxury, fantasy or exotic.  Bali anyone?
    love-hotel-zebra-4.jpg
  • Love Hotel Zebra - Love hotels are simply places for couples to meet up for some intimate time together in crowded cities where they may not have private space.  Sometimes family matters prevent the amorous from hosting visitors.  Lovers turn up at a love hotel and instead of being greeted by a receptionist, check in is usually automated by machine for extra privacy.  Typically there is a board which shows which rooms are available.  Those that you can select at that given moment are illuminated.  You can select a “rest” which is for a 90 minute quickie, or a “stay” for longer overnight sessions.  With the competition intense, love hotels have come up with all sorts of innovative ways to compete with each other.  Other than the usual strategy of offering more amenities like videos, rotating beds, costumes or sex toys some have entered the realm of theme parks.  Love hotel themes 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 and more towards luxury, fantasy or exotic.  Bali anyone?
    love-hotel-zebra-1.jpg
  • Daigo Nirvana Osaka Castle Love Hotel - Love hotels cater to romantic rendezvous or tawdry affair and in Japan have evolved over time. Often adopting a "theme" such as the tropics, Hello Kitty motifs, and other unusual and often bizarre concepts, they are a fixture of Japanese society where space is at a premium and privacy, especially that concerned with the family is held sacrosanct.
    osaka-castle-love-hotel-2.jpg
  • Daigo Nirvana Osaka Castle Love Hotel - Love hotels cater to romantic rendezvous or tawdry affair and in Japan have evolved over time. Often adopting a "theme" such as the tropics, Hello Kitty motifs, and other unusual and often bizarre concepts, they are a fixture of Japanese society where space is at a premium and privacy, especially that concerned with the family is held sacrosanct.
    osaka-castle-love-hotel-1.jpg
  • Love Hotel Interior -Originally love hotels were merely places for couples to meet up in crowded cities where they had no private space, or family matters prevented them from hosting visitors.  They have always been neutral ground, where intimacy can be risked without consequences.  Lovers turn up and instead of being greeted by a receptionist, check in is usually automated by machine for extra privacy.  You can select a “rest” which is a quickie, or a “stay” for longer overnight sessions.  With the competition intense, love hotels have come up with innovative ways to compete with each other.  Other than the more mundane methods of offering amenities like DVD players, videos, rotating beds or sex toys, many have entered the realm of theme parks.  Love hotels include such themes as the White House, UFOs, Christmas, underwater sea scenes, railway cars, retro, doctors office, schoolrooms…. Part of the theme trend is to make the experience more fun.  Couples can select a different theme for each tryst. This makes the situation less embarrassing or threatening by offering up exotic or funny settings, thus rendering the tryst into an experience rather than a mundane, sordid affair.  Genius!
    love-hotel-public-jam-1.jpg
  • Famy Love Hotel - Love hotels are places for couples to meet up for some intimate time together in in cases where they may not have privacy.  Sometimes family matters prevent the amorous from hosting visitors.  Simple solution: lovers turn up at a love hotel and 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.  Those that you can select at that given moment are illuminated.  You can select a “rest” which is for a 90 minute quickie or a “stay” for longer overnight sessions.  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.  Bali anyone?
    famy-love-hotel-01.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.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
  • UFO Love Hotel - Love hotels are places for couples to meet up for some intimate time together in in cases where they may not have privacy.  Sometimes family matters prevent the amorous from hosting visitors.  Simple solution: lovers turn up at a love hotel and 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.  Those that you can select at that given moment are illuminated.  You can select a “rest” which is for a 90 minute quickie or a “stay” for longer overnight sessions.  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.  Bali anyone?
    UFO-love-hotel-03.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
  • UFO Love Hotel - Love hotels are places for couples to meet up for some intimate time together in in cases where they may not have privacy.  Sometimes family matters prevent the amorous from hosting visitors.  Simple solution: lovers turn up at a love hotel and 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.  Those that you can select at that given moment are illuminated.  You can select a “rest” which is for a 90 minute quickie or a “stay” for longer overnight sessions.  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.  Bali anyone?
    UFO-love-hotel-02.jpg
  • UFO Love Hotel - Love hotels are places for couples to meet up for some intimate time together in in cases where they may not have privacy.  Sometimes family matters prevent the amorous from hosting visitors.  Simple solution: lovers turn up at a love hotel and 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.  Those that you can select at that given moment are illuminated.  You can select a “rest” which is for a 90 minute quickie or a “stay” for longer overnight sessions.  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.  Bali anyone?
    UFO-love-hotel-01.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
  • Japanese "Love hotels" attempt various themes to lighten the mood of such assignations,  this particular love hotel likes soft lights and moody colors.  this particular love hotel could almost pass for a real, normal hotel except for the smoked glass dark windows for privacy and the hidden entrance...Japanese love hotels always have a discreet entrance. More commonly they are "drive-through" with hidden parking lots or at least giant mud flaps hiding cars, or that is to say, car license plates in case the wife happens to drive by.
    japanese-love-hotel-1.jpg
  • The White House Love Hotel Hayama. One wonders what the President and the First Lady would think if they were to see this particular Japanese Love Hotel, located in Hayama on the Shonan Coast of Japan, south of Tokyo and Yokohama. Like all Japanese love hotels, this one has a theme, but it is doubtful if the intention is political...
    japanese-love-hotel-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-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