Capsule Hotels
Three Japanese hotels built around the same basic idea — a sleeping module rather than a room — and arriving at three different results. One strips the stay to nine hours, one leans toward a hostel's sociability, one buries the berths in a library.
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9h nine hours Nagoya Station
The 9h chain builds its hotels around an explicit division of nine hours: one to wash, seven to sleep, one to dress. The Nagoya Station branch follows the formula closely — floors are separated by sex, luggage stays in a locker on the entrance floor, and the sleeping floor is kept dark and quiet at all hours because guests arrive and leave at every hour. Each capsule is a moulded shell with a mattress, a controllable light and a sleep-tracking system; everything else, including the showers and the dressing area, is shared and kept clinically clean.
Grids Tokyo Ueno
Half hostel, half hotel: bunk-style capsule berths alongside private rooms, with a large ground-floor lounge and kitchen where guests are expected to linger. Ueno station, the park and the museums are all within walking distance.
Book and Bed Tokyo Ikebukuro
The original of a small chain that treats the bookshelf as the building material: berths are cut into the back of a long wall of shelving, reached by climbing through a gap between books into a bunk with a curtain and a lamp.
Compact berth hotels built around a single sleeping module and shared facilities.
Seasons, facilities and opening dates change without notice — check with the hotel before travelling.
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