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Where do you go, when you want some private time with your girl for a couple of hours? Not to your home, because your parents, brothers and sisters are there. Or maybe you just want to do something different then your own bed. If that is the problem, then you go to a Love hotel. In a love hotel you can rent a room from Minutes up to a whole night and yes; make a LOT of noise etc.
This hotels are from origin Japanese and were developed from tea rooms to love hotels. After the coming of the automobile, motels where being build all over Japan, and from this moment the love hotels really came in up rise.
There are a lot of different rooms that you can get, of course you can get a standard room with a bed and a TV, but many rooms have something more special than just a bed and a TV, like ツ"Hello Kitty SMツ" rooms, or rooms where you can have sex in a car, and there are even vibrating beds, and many more rooms.
But not only the rooms are special, also the outside of many love hotels are special, you can find them in different shapes like castle's, Christmas style, full of neon lights, etc. You can find this hotels in the nightclub area's or near the highway out of the city. When you enter the lobby you probably won't see anyone, except a board on the wall with pictures of the rooms. When a room is available it will be lightened up. You pick the room in which you want to have this steaming hours, or maybe only karaoke as some people do, after you choose the room you will get a card with the number of the room. When you are finished you can pay on the machine next to your door, or sometimes in the lobby to someone behind some panel.
There are 3 kind of rates in the hotels, the ツ"Rest rateツ" in the Kansai area (Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe) this means average 1 hour, while in the Tokyo area it is 3 hours. Then you have the ツ"Stayツ" rate, which is when you stay in the night, but this is only available after 9 or 10p.m. and then the last rate is the ツ"Free timeツ" rate which is available during the day time, and you can stay as long as you want for a pretty nice fixed price.
The rates depends on the room, the area, and the hotel you stay in, but the most expensive are the "Stay" rates and the "Rest" rates, especially in the weekend and on holidays when the rates for the rest are between 4000 yen and 6500 yen, while in the weekday this will be around 3000 yen and 5500 yen. A stay in from Sunday up to Thursday cost around 7000 and 11000 yen, and on Friday and Saturday 8000 yen up to 12500 yen.
Now, I have been to a Love hotel twice when I went to Japan (probably Josh went there around 50 times... ), and I was really amazed by what you can find in the room, and outside the room. The first time I went there , we had a Sauna in the bathroom, and a slot machine, and for the rest the usual stuff that you get in a luxury Love room. To bad we only had 1,5 hour, of course we could have stayed longer but then we needed to pay the "Stay rate" So I wonder about you people, a lot of you have been to Japan, and I'm sure a lot of people here have "a Love hotel" story to tell!!! so speak up, and tell us about your adventures, or story's about the Famous Love hotels.
Here are some links where you can find more information about the love hotel:
Hotel rooms (click on the hotel, and then on the Yellow link)
story about the love hotel, incl interview
The lost dreams of the love hotels
Wiki article
This hotels are from origin Japanese and were developed from tea rooms to love hotels. After the coming of the automobile, motels where being build all over Japan, and from this moment the love hotels really came in up rise.
There are a lot of different rooms that you can get, of course you can get a standard room with a bed and a TV, but many rooms have something more special than just a bed and a TV, like ツ"Hello Kitty SMツ" rooms, or rooms where you can have sex in a car, and there are even vibrating beds, and many more rooms.
But not only the rooms are special, also the outside of many love hotels are special, you can find them in different shapes like castle's, Christmas style, full of neon lights, etc. You can find this hotels in the nightclub area's or near the highway out of the city. When you enter the lobby you probably won't see anyone, except a board on the wall with pictures of the rooms. When a room is available it will be lightened up. You pick the room in which you want to have this steaming hours, or maybe only karaoke as some people do, after you choose the room you will get a card with the number of the room. When you are finished you can pay on the machine next to your door, or sometimes in the lobby to someone behind some panel.
There are 3 kind of rates in the hotels, the ツ"Rest rateツ" in the Kansai area (Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe) this means average 1 hour, while in the Tokyo area it is 3 hours. Then you have the ツ"Stayツ" rate, which is when you stay in the night, but this is only available after 9 or 10p.m. and then the last rate is the ツ"Free timeツ" rate which is available during the day time, and you can stay as long as you want for a pretty nice fixed price.
The rates depends on the room, the area, and the hotel you stay in, but the most expensive are the "Stay" rates and the "Rest" rates, especially in the weekend and on holidays when the rates for the rest are between 4000 yen and 6500 yen, while in the weekday this will be around 3000 yen and 5500 yen. A stay in from Sunday up to Thursday cost around 7000 and 11000 yen, and on Friday and Saturday 8000 yen up to 12500 yen.
Now, I have been to a Love hotel twice when I went to Japan (probably Josh went there around 50 times... ), and I was really amazed by what you can find in the room, and outside the room. The first time I went there , we had a Sauna in the bathroom, and a slot machine, and for the rest the usual stuff that you get in a luxury Love room. To bad we only had 1,5 hour, of course we could have stayed longer but then we needed to pay the "Stay rate" So I wonder about you people, a lot of you have been to Japan, and I'm sure a lot of people here have "a Love hotel" story to tell!!! so speak up, and tell us about your adventures, or story's about the Famous Love hotels.
Here are some links where you can find more information about the love hotel:
Hotel rooms (click on the hotel, and then on the Yellow link)
story about the love hotel, incl interview
The lost dreams of the love hotels
Wiki article