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themed rooms with straw mats, beds on the floor, rice paper
screens. Each room boasts a large stone-lined bath area, nearly
natural two or three person rock tubs set into the floor. A beautiful
place to take a private bath in the big city. Just down the street from
Hotel Manjo, look for the sample stone bath out front.
sleep. About three feet tall, three feet wide, and six and a half feet
deep, a plastic coffin open at one end. Inside, you'll typically find a
TV suspended from the ceiling, a bedside console with a radio, clock
and alarm and controls for the TV, lights and air conditioning system.
For privacy you close a cloth screen at the end of your capsule. On
a typical floor in a capsule hotel there might be twenty to seventy
capsules, so you are essentially sharing lodging with this many other
people. You will hear them snore, cough, take mobile phone calls,
stumble out of their capsules to head to the bathroom.
designed for salarymen who miss the last train
home. If you are stuck somewhere in Tokyo late
at night, go to the station and ask the police or
the station master where the nearest "ka-pu-su-
ru ho-te-ru" is - they'll likely have a map to show
you.
dudes. Some pass out in the hallways and
lounges before they get to their capsules. It's
really quite a scene. And then they manage to
get up and out by 8am. You will likely be kicked
out by ten. Often the baths and showers close before the hotel
does. Don't wait until the last minute to clean up.
probably shouldn't leave their capsule hotel search until the last train.
high shower for pre-cleaning and then a large hot water tub. Some
Most hotel rooms have a
bedside console for
controlling the lights, air
conditioning, TV and
stereo. This convenience
is common in most all
lodgings, from the
cheapest to the most
expensive. These
consoles are often a good
way to date the hotel; the
built-in clocks in
particular reveal when the
room was constructed.