My husband and I visited a love hotel last night. I know this might sound rather seedy to a Westerner, but let me explain. Love hotels are a Japanese institution. They have been around for about 50 years, in fact, the first love hotel opened in Osaka in the s, but now they are everywhere in Japan, in multitude, and it is completely mundane to visit one pretty much everyone has. Even though the name might suggest otherwise, love hotels are not brothels.
Japanese companies generally come up with some pretty impressive advertising but are not quite as adept when English is used. So a love hotel, despite its linguistically questionable name from the perspective of native English speakers , is in essence really just a hotel for short stays.
The key selling points of love hotels and at the same time the biggest differences between love hotels and normal hotels are:. As you might have guessed, one customer group of love hotels is prostitutes and their clients, but importantly, prostitutes are not the only type of guest to frequently use love hotels.
These can be divided into two main groups. First, many people who want to discretely or secretly meet up read: lovers use love hotels for their private interactions. Second, husbands with their wives or boyfriends with their girlfriends, who do not need to meet up secretly, frequently use love hotels.
No-one will come and check whether you are getting frisky with your buddy or just chilling there with a movie and some cock pornβ¦ermβ¦. I meant popcorn. The privacy aspect of love hotels is taken to extremes. First, in addition to the lack of receptionists, there are no windows or spaces where people from outside the hotel could see you. Or if there are windows or open spaces they are frosted or covered see photo below.
