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front listing different rates for a few hours, a
few more hours, and overnight. Often along
names: Hotel Elmer, Hotel Clean, Hotel Princess, Hotel Carrot.
walk into a lobby and look at a collection of photos posted on the
wall. If there's a light behind a photo, the room is available. Press a
button, go to the small hole in the wall and give the receptionist
behind the hole some money in exchange for a key. If you're check-
ing in after 11pm, you're typically staying for the whole night.
for long-term stays. Overnight guests must
check in after 11pm, and you probably can't
leave your luggage multiple days.
problems you could have anywhere else,
compounded by sex trade overtones and any of
your own insecurities you might have packed.
entertainment lodging. Rooms themed for feudal Japan, Versailles,
"Cowntry & Westarn" cost $65 overnight. From the Uguisudani
station platform, head out through the downstairs exit. Out of the
station, turn right to walk along the tracks. A few hundred meters
along on that street. The sign is high up, in black and white English
sixties-styled letters.
ens of small hourly hotels vie for the active casual sex business in
this area popular with young folks. Paruko is another aging love
hotel. Here some beds are shaped like race cars, some round beds
spin in circles. I sat in a bathtub shaped like a large bowl, atop a
pillar in the middle of the bathroom. Fun stuff! The sign is not in
English; search for the katakana letters on the side of a red brick
building.
Some lively Love Hotels
make an appearance in the
excellent 1987 Japanese
comedy "A Taxing Woman"
(Marusa no onna). Like
most of Juzo Itami's films it
is a funny and revealing look
at contemporary Japan.