Towards the end of the Japan trip, money was getting a little tight for everybody. My last night there, I decided to go the capsule route for the night. Only 3000 Yen (roughly $30.00) for a night. Check in at 5pm and check out at 10am. It feels like going into a laundromat with a wall of dryers, but then having people climb inside and spend the night in the dryers. Men only, you have a choice of top or bottom. Each one has a curtain that you pull down for privacy, and there is a 70’s style console inside each one with am/fm radio and a small TV. You get woken up by a cattle call loudspeaker that echoes through every floor of the place. They are cheap and clean, but if you are claustrophobic, I might think twice about it. Strange also that there was a a sticker on the door of the hotel that, from what I could figure out, banned Yakuza from staying there.
Posted on December 03, 2007 at 08:42 PM | Comment (2 comments)
