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  • This hotel...

  • Well this is what it describes itself as

  • An Ultimate Healing

  • that exceeds the sky of time is here.

  • Exceeds the sky of time..??

  • Does it though? Does it exceed the sky of time?

  • When I first heard the concept of love hotels

  • These...secretive hotels these couples go to

  • To do love-related things in an inconspicuous manner

  • The first thing I thought was

  • "Brilliant!"

  • No one will ever know what you're up to, if you're caught walking into a hotel

  • especially designed for LOVE

  • Which inconspicuous love hotel should we go to?

  • The one with the roman temple on top

  • or the one with Father Christmas standing outside?

  • Nooo, fuck it! Let's go to the one that looks like Jurassic Park

  • And to me, that's the irony of Love Hotels

  • if you're seen walking in a regular hotel

  • there's an assumption that you're gonna sleep, relax...and steal some towels and toothbrushes

  • But if you're seen walking into a Love Hotel, the assumptions might be different

  • Well it's not just sleeping and...bed things

  • You have food as well

  • Food,pizzas

  • My favorite aspect of this is

  • There's a room where adult atmosphere is actually tossed

  • Whatever that means

  • But Love Hotels are a pretty big business in Japan

  • With 25000 Love Hotels

  • Visited over 500 million times a year

  • In a market worth 40 billion dollars

  • And that is a lot of love

  • But with so many Love Hotels it's important to stand out

  • which has led to a variety of brilliant names and things

  • I know I'd love to have been at the board meetings when these names were thought up

  • My favorite is of course, the Hotel Mickey Cookies

  • Not just because of the genius combination of Mickey and Cookies

  • But I can picture that Eureka moment the hotel owner had

  • with just startling clarity

  • The Hotels are actually very convenient due to their low prices and flexibility

  • As a result of not being able to book the rooms in advance

  • So with that in mind if you're travelling around or if you're tired

  • You can just check in and get yourself a room

  • For example my friend and I were in Osaka, and we missed our train back to our hostel

  • so we decided to check into a Love Hotel instead

  • And we were just looking for a simple cosy comfortable room

  • And so we walked into a Love Hotel

  • And when you walk into a Love Hotel, you wont meet anyone

  • What you will have is just a big screen

  • And you will push the number of the room that you wanna go in

  • And unfortunately there was only one room left in that Love Hotel

  • And frankly it took

  • it took the Mickey....

  • COOKIES

  • You know when you just wanna go to sleep

  • You just wanna lay down on the bed

  • Fuck is this?

  • Fasten with a rope and there needs to be nothing

  • It's so terrifying

  • This hotel..this is what it describes itself as

  • An ultimate healing

  • That exceeds the sky of time is here

  • "Exceeds the sky of time"...?

  • Does it though?

  • Does it exceed the sky of time?

  • If this is some sort of scenario you're comfortable paying for

  • I don't know who would want to pay for this

  • Granted I paid for it

  • But....

  • There's a huge cloud of regret that hangs over this experience

  • Interested in uniforms?

  • You can dress up as the....

  • School, Nurse

  • School, Maid, Other!

  • That's the most exciting one

  • Why is there like chairs on the walls, like what purpose?

  • There's one, two, three, four

  • This room is for a couple

  • And they put..this many sofas in

  • What disturbs me more than the sofas

  • Is what can be described as...the cage

  • What's goin on in there?

  • No...

  • It might not exceed the sky of time

  • but if you want to do horrific acts under the watchful eye

  • of Hello Kitty

  • There's always the Hello Kitty S&M themed room

  • in Hotel Candy Hall in Osaka

  • It's said that when the hotel changed hands

  • they toned down the Hello Kitty Room

  • Especially as there were photos of Hello Kitty showing up all over the internet

  • blindfolded, and gagged

  • But the room is still there, just with less gagging

  • Still, if the idea of the Hello Kitty Room is still uncomfortable to bear

  • There is the room themed like a school classroom

  • where you can relive the magic of studying Maths, but in new...and exciting ways

  • If we're going to Love Hotels based on exterior appearances

  • it would be difficult to avoid one of Japan's most famous

  • Love Hotels which is the Queen Elizabeth

  • And whilst the rooms are fairly standard or being with a nautical theme

  • The hotel is best known for its eye-catching exterior

  • Which is a huge replica of the Queen Elizabeth, itself

  • But of course, no replica of a huge ship

  • that definitely isn't the Titanic, wouldn't be complete

  • without Jack and Rose standing at the front of the ship, pulling their infamous pose

  • just like they did in Titanic

  • If you ever find yourself at the Russian Embassy

  • or the Tokyo American Club

  • you are about a 2 min walk away

  • from one of Tokyo's most infamous fetish Love Hotels

  • the Alpha-In Hotel

  • Where every room has suspension systems, bondage horses, crosses and things

  • that I don't even want to talk about

  • It's said that the rooms are inspired by Guantanamo Bay

  • So you know they're gonna be great fun

  • With strong prison themes, and torture scenarios in every room

  • But let's have a run through some of those wonderful rooms

  • each with their own unique style

  • For example there's the Medical Room, for Clinical examinations

  • The Shame-Style Room, where a toilet is just there exposed in the room but in a cage

  • There's the Cave Style, the Mirror Style, the Chinese Style

  • The Space Style, complete with what I like to call, a Sex Hammock

  • and finally, Beginner Style, for people like me

  • who haven't got a fucking clue of how to use the equipment in the room

  • You know those drunken "what if" conversations you have down the bar with your friends

  • I'm pretty sure that's how this place was conceived

  • What if you could have sex in Jurassic Park?!

  • Yeaaah!

  • Wait a minute!

  • Now I know what you're probably thinking

  • Are there blowup dolls of Jeff Goldblum and the answer

  • is NO

  • But the hotel JZauruss is themed around Jurassic Park

  • and for 30 dollars, you can have 90 minutes

  • in the Park and experience the tension and excitement

  • of walking through the gates of Jurassic Park

  • or be it, for different reasons

  • And whilst the room are fairly standard

  • with the good old caged bed and Mummy room

  • This hotel is awesome just because of the detail and because of the concept I mean

  • It's Jurassic Park, what more could you possibly want?

  • We're gonna make a fortune with this place

  • What's better than having a train carriage all to yourself?

  • Having a train carriage to yourself, in your Hotel Room!

  • From the outside of the Towers Hotel you wouldn't think much of it

  • Especially considering it's next-door to arguably Japan's most disappointingly named Love Hotel

  • But the Towers Hotel has a great reputation for its up-market rooms including

  • A room with a swimming pool

  • A room with a pool table

  • And even a room with bumper cars

  • But its most famous room is the room themed like a Subway train

  • And just for the level of detail that went into the room

  • from the signs to the glass floor of the carriage itself

  • and for creating a scenario

  • of limitless train possibility

  • The Tower Hotel comes out on top in my opinion

  • So if you're in Japan, try a Love Hotel

  • be it with your boyfriend, girlfriend or just a friend

  • They're cheap, they're convenient

  • and they have loads of cool stuff in the room

  • from Karaoke to sometimes even Saunas

  • And whilst this video might have made

  • Love Hotels seem creepy or strange

  • Honestly, they're not, they are pretty standard

  • Give it a shot!

  • And when you do, you too can exceed the Sky of Time

  • See ya later!

  • Let's get one thing clear, yeah line!

  • Stay over there

  • Stay on your side

  • Mister clever premium face man

  • That is such a cheeky laugh

  • So this is one of my favorite expressions, the Shit!

  • It means like, The Best!

  • Your car is the shit

  • Number 27: The shit!

This hotel...

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