Breakaway Destination Guides (International)
Breakaway’s Travel World
A Guide to Golden Lands and Faraway Places
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The Love Hotels & Motels
The greatest Japanese invention of all time has to be the love hotel. In the concrete wasteland of the modern city, the love hotel stands
out as a refreshingly off-the-wall escape from conformity, a monument to hedonism, and a libertine's paradise.
One of the significant changes in our Social Environment is the increase in the number of Motels & Hotels providing Accommodation as a Secret and
convenient places for extramarital affairs.
Love Hotels
These Hotels/Motels (also known as boutique or fashion hotels) do not welcome travellers who occupies a room all night or all day because his occupancy
of the room prevents the Hotel from renting the room to Couples in the daytime. The major purpose of these Motels is to provide a facilities for Couples who
want to stay for 1-2 hours in the daytime.
The turn-over rate of a room of this kind is at least 3-4 times a day. These Motels are called Love Hotels and can be found in most major holiday resorts.
Although considered a serious social problem, the people themselves may be the problem, not the Motels.
JAPANESE LOVE HOTELS -- (ラブホテル, rabu hoteru?):
You'll find "Love Hotels" all over Japan. The rooms offer a fantasy of luxury and escape from crowded tiny apartments where families or neighbours might
spy on licit or illicit physical pleasures. You can tell the love hotels by their bright-lit neon signs with funny names, often English inflected. Hotel Elmer,
Hotel Carrot, Hotel Charm, Hotel Princess, Hotel Chrystal. And the signs out front will list two or three prices: short stays, long stays, overnight stays.
Simple bed room (LOVE Hotel of Tokyo)
In the lobby, you won't see any people. Only a large room menu on the wall. If a photo of a room is lit up, the room is available. You like that room,
press a button next to the photo. A faceless person behind dark glass hands you a key after you hand them your cash.
 Themed Japanese Love Hotel Room
While they might seem to be somewhat sordid to a foreign visitor, in Japan they are only somewhat perverted, mostly "futsuu" - normal, a fact of life
for high school students on up to the older middle aged folks, all wanting some privacy in a country with tiny dwellings and still some rice-paper walls.
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