Let's play sex!
Let's play sex?!
The design though, how did this happen?
How did the designer think of this?
That's terrifying!
It's like having a bit of an existential crazy moment
It's estimated there are over 37 000 love hotels in Japan, bringing in about 50 billion dollars
of revenue every year
It's a big business and it's hardly a surprise given how many families in Japan live in multi-generational households
with walls made of...paper
The love hotels aren't like regular hotels
they're pretty unique
in more ways than one
and by the end of this video you'll be the expert on the subject
Recently, through the friend of a friend who owns a stylish chain of love hotels here in the city of Sendai
We were able to go in and explore the rooms
I've been told that this love hotel in particular had
some pretty ridiculous and crazy rooms
and the hotel certainly didn't disappoint
After meeting the owner Yasushi Shishido
First he took us to one of the standard rooms to show us
the kind of services you can get
in a love hotel
It's like being in another world all of the sudden
The first thing you notice when you walk into a love hotel is it's very closed off from the world
No windows..Obviously you can see outside if you want to
There's windows there but
you feel very contained
Very romantic!
The one thing that differentiates any love hotel from a normal hotel is these extra special amenities
So here we have
Honey drops..?
Body Massage Lotion
Good for your skin apparently
And then you've got some....condoms here!
It's my favorite...Big Honey
It's not small...that's big!
What's this?
There's an eye mask
And
Oooh
It's a ....present?
You know when you go to a normal hotel you get a toothbrush
Hairbrush, a lot of soap and stuff to take home
Here you get
Pink Rotor
Which is..you know....a vibrator!
Yeah so you get a vibrator
And an eye mask..not bad!
And Big Honey!
Costume?
How much?
Free!
Free??!
2 rental free
Which is the most popular?
Schoolgirl??
Maid!
Maid?!
Maid...Maid and schoolgirls
50 varieties of cosplay costumes to rent
I could stand here and look at these all day
Out of curiosity..
Rather than...some sort of pleasure
Or like a....what's that?
Princess!
Alright so we've ordered our incredible costumes
Having ordered our costumes we went to collect them from a hole in the wall in the front door
Discretion is one of the key elements of staying in a love hotel
where you'll rarely rarely see any staff during your stay
Even choosing your room is done through a computer screen
And when it comes to paying its also usually done
through a machine built into the wall of the room
This discretion and secrecy means
you really feel like you're in a bubble
the whole time you're in a love hotel
A bubble filled with incredible costumes
Very...very romantic!
So that's half the reason to come to a Love Hotel you can dress up like your favorite princess
This is a air stewardess uniform
My head is big so..
So food and drink, the alcohol is very very cheap here
and the reason is when people come here they often come by car
If they drink alcohol, they wanna eat lots of food
they're gonna stay longer
By having a lower price of food and drink people will actually stay longer
And you make more money!
Because love hotels often use a pay as you go system
They try to entice customers to stay by providing them with everything you could possibly ever want
Food, movies, beer, costumes
Why would you ever want to leave?
This is my breakfast
Beer!
The world's biggest honey toast
I don't know how I'm gonna be able to eat that
Chicken Karaage
It's fried chicken
Hamburger with rice and salad
And potatoes
This is ridiculous
There's so much here
What time is it? It's eleven o'clock in the morning
So...this is my breakfast
Standard love hotels
...most love hotels
you get a bath with a jacuzzi built in it
And a television! I mean what more can you want that's like the best thing ever!
And the final touch for romance
Mood lighting!
So relaxing!
Look at the bubbles! Oh my gosh!
One interesting thing here
That I've just discovered
is body soap is unscented
So the idea is you can come here, have a bath, have a shower
Use this and no one will ever know
that you went to a love hotel!
So you come home and no one will smell
That you've showered or anything
I've never thought about that! That's one thing you never would've thought about would you?
It makes sense really
This body soap could be the difference between life and divorce
So there's even magazines where you can choose an escort as well
So one hour with someone is 15000 yen
which is about 150 dollars
And there's quite a lot in this magazine
Oh my god!
In Japanese there's a popular term for escort girl it's "delivery health"
I'm not making that up it refers to it as "delivery health"
because I guess they're delivering....health
Our shop is a shop only amateur wife
These are amateur wives
I don't know what the definition of amateur wife is
Someone who's not very good at being a wife
who's therefore cheating on their husband by being an escort
Having checked out all the services and amenities you can get by staying at a love hotel
we were shown to some of the more exotic and stylish rooms
What's going on?!
You know...like...this feels like a room in a hotel in Las Vegas you know like in the movies
You see these crazy elaborate rooms
with quirky design features
This is like that! This is bonkers!
There's a staircase, I don't know where it goes yet
What's goin on here?!
Bean bags, goats, pandas
Geese?!
What's all that about?
I don't know..
But this is awesome! Wow!
If I was rich this is the kind of room I would have as my bedroom
Just like this! This is it!
Look at this toilet!
If you sit on that toilet, you feel like a god I imagine
When the girl is in the shower you can sit in there and hide
Apparently
The girl goes in the shower and you can sit in there and peek over the edge and look
I'm not even joking that's what it's designed for
This feels like something out of Alice in Wonderland
What's going on?
What's going on??
What the...it's terrifying!
But awesome!
You found the secret loft well done!!
This is bonkers!
There must be at least
100 teddy bears
and goose and ducks and things..
Alright let's get out of this nightmare loft!
So this is the peeping room
Peeping box
The idea is the girl is in the bath or whatever, you can look through like that
What a sight!
Not the sort of thing I would want to peep at normally
This is like having a bit of an existential fucking crazy moment
There's a sense of when they were making this room they just thought: "money is of no object"
The design though.. how did this happen?
How did the designer think of this
What were they doing?
I can see myself coming here for love
And spending just most of my time walking around
Checking out the interior
Whether it's the crazy weird Teddy Bear cave
Or the hole in the ground
for peeping at people in the bath
Or the Temple/Shrine toilet
I could spend hours in here just looking around
being mind-fucked by the design
What happened?
How did this happen?
This is like a cinema room
Let's play sex!
Let's play sex?
You could have so much fun
So in here you can sit on the toilet
And watch TV down at the other end of the corridor
You wouldn't know this discreet little building has so many crazy and exciting rooms inside
Okay so one night
in a love hotel room like this is about 12000 yen, it's about 120 dollars or so
It's pretty reasonable though, for what it is
And what it is is a theme park in a room
These rooms are more than just a hotel room as you've seen
I mean this is like a theater
and a children's play area
rolled into one
And the other one you feel like you're in some sort of exotic Las Vegas hotel
So there you have it! The magic of Love Hotels
If you're in Japan, why not grab a room, and if you're in Sendai you can find the details to this hotel
"The Hotelion", in the description box below
And then you too can sit in a hole
Or a Teddy Bear cave
You won't ever want to leave
Thanks for watching guys, I'll see you next time!
This room...Is absolutely
Ridiculous!!