Here’s a new twist on Japanese kennels for drunk salarymen who missed the last train home at 12:20am “NetCapsule” hotel(wacky machine translation)
The real rest-of-the-story is that Japanese capsule hotels have fallen on hard times due to vastly better/cheaper manga cafes.
The original style of capsule hotels (Wiki) costing 3-4000 yen ($30-40 USD)a night has fallen into disfavor for the past couple years due to the popularity of manga cafes that offer for 1000 yen or less (under $10 USD) closed cubicles with comfy chase lounges, fiber Internet, game machines, free manga library, free drinks and often showers.
Obviously at those prices, manga cafes have become extremely popular people wanting a cheap night’s stay. There’s even a growing social problem of unemployed, homeless otaku called “net cafe refuges” living for months in manga cafes.
Here is a photo of a closed manga cafe booth from the same chain that I have stayed at a couple of years ago. I’m a big guy and I had a problem stretching out so I would hate to stay more than a couple nights. Then again, my feet hang out the capsules of capsule hotels too.
manga cafe (Wiki)
Other websites with full details of staying in Japanese capsule hotels.
Photo of the inside a capsule of hurokitty’s hotel stay.
Thanx to hurokitty’s flickr photostream
I got online this morning to check my email and mess around on facebook for a bit. Next thing I know it’s 7pm, my legs are totally numb, and I have this nasty trail of dried drool down my chin. That internet coma completely ruined my day!