Living In Tokyo's Capsule Hotels 269
afabbro writes "Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 once offered a night’s refuge to salarymen who had missed the last train home. Now with Japan enduring its worst recession since World War II, it is becoming an affordable option for people with nowhere else to go. The Hotel 510’s capsules are only 6 1/2 feet long by 5 feet wide. Guests must keep possessions, like shirts and shaving cream, in lockers outside of the capsules. Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas says, 'It’s just a place to crawl into and sleep. You get used to it.'”
nothing beats a good all night dutch-oven (Score:2, Funny)
especially when you get to pay for the privilege
Re:Westerners (Score:2, Funny)
only if they fit
I don't think I would be welcome. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Westerners (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds like the Navy. (Score:5, Funny)
Just don't take the bottom rack. Remember folks, drunken pee flows downhill.
Re:Best place to spend a few weeks. (Score:3, Funny)
Or stay out of Japan all together. Safer, less tentacle-rapey, less schoolgirl panty sniffy, less racist, less xenophobic, etc.
Re:Westerners (Score:4, Funny)
So there is a persopn whose job it is to stop Yakuza from using these? tough gig.
Re:Sounds like the Navy. (Score:1, Funny)
I did 6 months of that multiple times. Its not too bad.
I did 6 months of that multiple times. Its not too bad.
Times must be hard if they are making you sleep in the Torpedo Tubes.
Re:Very affordable (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Remember this is by Tokyo standards (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Best place to spend a few weeks. (Score:5, Funny)
Safer, less tentacle-rapey, less schoolgirl panty sniffy, less racist, less xenophobic
That's what I go to Japan for, you insensitive clod!
Re:Best place to spend a few weeks. (Score:3, Funny)
Tip 3: Don't buy the adult PPV channels; they're heavily censored. Although after a few minutes of watching, you're sort of glad for the censoring.
Ah, but I kid the politicians... (Score:5, Funny)
For those who don't know, "politics" is the American term for yakuza or organized crime.
Re:Smaller than Snowcrash? (Score:2, Funny)
Who needs windows?
Re:health care is free / payed for by all as well (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Their own damned fault (Score:3, Funny)
blah blah blah you too can be an Alpha or a Beta blah blah
Taunting the Epsilons and Deltas is bad form.
Re:Westerners (Score:3, Funny)
And all this time I thought "mafia" was just a scam to get you to pay money to Zynga so that your clicks do more damage than my clicks.
Re:Sounds like the Navy. (Score:3, Funny)
Airman: The Air Force is all fucked up-- last night the air conditioners went out in our tents.
Solder: No way.
Airman: Yep.
Solder: You guys get AIR CONDITIONERS in your tents?
Marine: You guys get TENTS?