- Today I'm going to stay inside
of two capsule hotels in Tokyo, Japan.
One of them is futuristic made of plastic,
looks like a spaceship capsule.
And the second one is a more traditional, men only,
capsules made out of wood, hotel that even offers free rice.
This is very, very popular.
Most of these capsules are sold out
this entire weekend around town.
But I did find this three hour gap
at this specific Nine Hours.
And this only cost me 2000 yen,
which at today's prices is 13 US dollars.
To put into perspective how inexpensive that is,
just this Uber ride,
convert 5,400 yen to USD,
is 5,400 yen, which is 35 US dollars
at today's exchange rates.
So it's more than double the cost
of my three hour stay at the capsule hotel.
I did reach out to management
and they told me I am allowed to film inside of there.
I just cannot talk.
I have to be very, very quiet.
Like when I'm in my capsule
I can whisper to you guys,
but other than that, I can't really talk too much.
From the second you walk into the hotel lobby,
you can't help but feel like you need to talk quietly.
I don't know.
Capsule number 4 1 5.
Got it.
We have the girls elevator
and the men's elevator and shower.
Okay, let's go up.
Oh, I gotta do this.
We are going to, oh you just, and then it knows.
Check-in process was not super smooth.
We got it figured out.
414, 415 probably right there.
There's the garbage, slippers.
Oh, these are like cubbies.
So the first area that you come to is these little cubbies
that you can get one with your room.
So if I'm number 415,
use my barcode, it unlocks it.
I have a bag.
What is inside the bag?
Pajamas?
A towel.
Slippers.
Dude, they give you pajamas?
I didn't expect that.
$13 is what I spent for this.
Definitely putting these on
and I hope they fit a six foot three American.
Please remove your shoes.
Oh, that was the wrong foot.
When I finally got into the room
where all the capsules were located,
it was honestly kind of surreal walking down the hallway
and seeing all the capsules.
There's a window at the end of the room
that looks out into Tokyo.
The first capsule hotel in the world opened in 1979
and was in Osaka, Japan.
From there it spread to a bunch of other cities within Japan
and now there are capsule hotels
in many places of the world.
Once you climb in, you can close your curtain for privacy.
Now your little door can be locked,
but it can only be locked from the inside.
I would say it's pretty comfortable inside of here.
Like I'm really tall, totally stretched out with my legs,
I have room here, and from there.
I read somewhere that it was nine feet.
I would say it's more like seven feet,
six foot eight maybe.
Your actual capsule or pod or guest room
is basically a chamber that's roughly the size
of a bed with enough room for you to crawl in,
lay down or sit up.
Some of them are made out of wood or metal,
but they're most often made out of fiberglass or plastic.
Wow, okay.
We've made it into the capsule.
I feel like I'm in the '70s with all this
wooden wall and like brown stuff.
Look at the door right there.
Somebody is sleeping above me so I should probably be quiet.
Most of the capsule hotels
that you'll find generally include a small television
with headphones for you to listen to it,
some form of air conditioning or air ventilation.
As soon as I put in the button,
the air conditioning turns on.
Wow.
That's really, really nice.
Power consoles for you to plug in your devices.
And it was crazy.
Both of the places that I stayed in
had the fastest internet.
Gigabit internet up and down.
That's not even something that I experienced when I stay
at a Hilton hotel in Japan.
It's faster than the wifi that's at my house.
So super impressed with that.
Now you can hear almost everything going on in the room
from all the different people that are staying
in the capsules.
Now kind of like a hostile,
a lot of the amenities are community shared,
like the toilets, the showers, the dining room.
Wow, they have laundry machines up here?
That's legit.
And the older version capsule hotel I stayed in
even had a community bath and sauna.
Now I didn't film inside of there
because nobody was wearing clothes.
But if you are gonna go into the community baths,
beware if you do have tattoos, they are frowned upon.
The older school place that I stayed in
actually had these bookshelves.
I thought they were DVDs,
but then once I got closer, I pulled one of them off,
and they're like little Japanese comic books.
Around Japan, you can find different sizes
of capsule hotels.
They have some that have 50 beds inside of them
and they have some that go up to 700 beds.
And even though this capsule hotel had spots for women
and men across Japan, capsule hotels primarily cater to men.
Your clothes and your shoes are supposed to be exchanged
for a yukata, which is basically pajamas.
This is the locker room on the second floor.
A little bit odd, but this is where
you get your outfits.
Roomwear.
Hmm.
I know they have these brown clothes.
I don't really feel like wearing them.
I think I'm gonna pass on that
and just go to my room.
Now, I wore pajamas in one of the hotels,
but I didn't wear it in the other one
because honestly, I was too tired
and didn't even want to go change.
I'm on the third floor.
It's time to go in.
Let's see how we do it here.
Why would somebody want to stay inside of a capsule hotel?
Well, the main benefit is they're convenient
and they have a low price.
Typically they cost around $18
to $36 a night in US dollars.
Now, I booked the traditional one last minute,
like an hour before, and it did cost me around $100.
But to be fair, all of the hotels
around Tokyo Station were going for 400
to 800 US dollars for the night.
So I was more than happy
to spend the $100 on this capsule room.
And did I mention I get free rice?
The interesting thing is the stereotypical person
that stays inside of these capsule hotels
are Japanese employees who are too drunk
to go all the way home safely,
or they missed the last train of the day to get home
and they're too embarrassed to get home super late
and see their spouses.
Check out of the capsule hotel was at noon.
I stayed until 11:45, which gave me the chance
to see them cleaning up all the capsules.
They took out the entire bed, all the sheets,
and swapped them out with fresh new ones.
First thing, it is very inexpensive,
so a great price for you if you just want to get some sleep.
I like to sleep with white noise
and there is no way you could turn on
a white noise sound machine.
That would be considered too much noise for the people
inside of the other pods 'cause they would all hear it.
You would have to wear headphones in order to listen to it.
The use case for these would be amazing inside of airports.
It would be so much better if they have these
inside of the main secure area so that you can sleep
for a little bit longer, especially when you're in a foreign
country and not have to like go out of security and customs
and then come all the way back through
and have them question you.
What were you doing for four hours here?
That process could take two or three hours,
and so it really limits the amount of time
that you could sleep.
How has this business not come to more airports in America?
I really don't know
because it is a really convenient, useful thing.
And as long as you're not claustrophobic,
you should be okay and you should be able
to stay in one of these.
Let me know your thoughts.
Would you stay in a capsule hotel
or would you be too claustrophobic?
Or could you not handle how quiet
you have to be inside of there?
I am curious on your comments.
Thanks for watching, time to go to dinner.
Check out my Uber.
It's a BM- oh my gosh.
A BMW-I7.
It has automatic doors.
It has all this little touchscreen right here.
It has a theater built into the ceiling.
It's going into theater mode right now.
This screen is coming down.
Look at that!
And then my seat reclined.
It reclined like a movie theater,
A new shower experience that softly envelopes you
in a comforting pillar of warm water,
gently warming and refreshing your body.
Okay.