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!!