In the world of hotels, Japan is home to some lodging experiences with unmistakable services, amenities, architecture, aesthetics, and food that is quite literally hard to compare. All in the promise to make guests feel an incomparable amount of comfort and joy while traveling abroad. Kabukicho - the Mecca of Love Hotels and everything beyond.
Time for the Sabukaru team to find out more and dig deep into Love Hotel culture:. Couples would arrive at these quaint spots where there were approximately 15 private rooms in any one Chaya and be given tea and snacks.
After which, a bath would be drawn and couples would take baths together, then be left in private to consummate their sexual desires in secret. To ensure payment their shoes and possessions would be held by the hands of each Chaya until their departure.
These were the two types of fornication spaces. Rooms were in typical fashion tatami flooring with very little accessories to decorate the room making it very simple. Sobaya on the other hand were Japanese noodle shops with rooms for rent.
Less likely for couples to use, more commonly they were used by single men who would bring prostitutes or geisha for sexual encounters. Thus cutting out the Sobaya and the Machiai rooms. Newspaper Clipping advertising the Enshuku in This is where the real story of the Love Hotel began. Japanese homes were too small to have privacy. Often was the case, entire families lived in one home together. They were unlike anything else, to say the least. Highly visceral rooms painted in invigorating colours with ambient lighting, decorated to exploit erotic sexual encounters.
