The Morning News has some great photographs of the Japanese phenomenon for wild and creatively decorated love hotels. From Hello Kitty S&M to Gullivers Travels, the 30,000 to 40,000 love hotels in Japan are full of creatively themed rooms that also offer hotel-style extras including video game consoles and big screen TV’s, karaoke machines, and DVD libraries. High-tech automated payment machines reduce the embarresment of human contact, and free gifts are offered as incentives to return. It’s amazing to see how the Japanese manage to incorporate good design and clever technology into every aspect of their lives.
Unlike the dank motels where Americans allegedly seek anonymous sex,
Japan’s love hotels are playful and unapologetically sexual.
Photographer Misty Keasler shows the humor, desire, and even the
loneliness of these empty rooms. Her first monograph, Love Hotels, from Chronicle Books will
be followed by a show of the same title at the Museum of Contemporary
Photography at Columbia College, Jenkins Johnson Gallery New York
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You should see what the LOVE HOTELS book looks like. Completely taking a photo book up a level…but the best things about these photographs are the simply hilarious and often disturbing details of the signs in the corners of the rooms.
January 21st, 2007 at 9:54 pm
But how do you find these things??? I live in Japan and want to try a few of these rooms out but can/t find a website listing the types of love hotels and their locations!! Can you give me a site? And not for only Tokyo. I live in Kobe. Thanks!
October 11th, 2007 at 10:53 am