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  • 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!!

Let's play sex!

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