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the love hotel experiment

13th of Dec, 2003ce* in: diary

Something interesting about Japan is the sex industry.
On my travels in outer Tokyo, I happened upon the red light district of a small station city. It amazed me that prostitution is apparent and not really curbed, as I was walking through the little streets trying to get a good deal on a hotel* I saw red light booths and tarts walking about, dildo vending machines and packs of sex hungry men.

Eventually I chose a hotel to stay in and I must say the procedure was interesting. First we had to choose a room from a lit bilboard, press a button on a free room picture, out pops a card to which must be handed over to the counter. The counter was mirrored so you couldn’t see in! We handed in the card and paid the cash, and in reply got a mechanical response arigato gosaimasu from some hidden computerised speaker.

The room was luxurious, big bed, karaoke, bath tub etc. However as this was an experiment for both of us we found everything disgusting to the touch… clean the remote control with tissues. Don’t sit on the chairs or put anything you want to keep clean on there!

* - as we were both trying to stay somewhere, a love hotel worked out much cheaper than staying together at a bussiness hotel, which most of were closed anyway.

Nice, but only usefull when stuck in the middle of nowhere at 2am.