Love hotels (ラブホテル) are designed for sex. They are a type of short-stay hotel found in Japan and provide privacy for couples that are looking to engage in discrete intimate liaisons. Alternative names include romance hotel, fashion hotel, leisure hotel, amusement hotel, couples hotel and boutique hotel.
At a love hotel, you can “rest” – check in for a few hours – or “stay” – spend the night. Rates vary between establishments, a sign outside will usually have hours and rates.
Entrances are discreet and interaction with staff is minimised, with rooms selected from a panel of buttons and the bill settled by a pair of hands behind a pane of frosted glass.
Following is a list of ten decorated love hotel room themes where you can have your own sexual misadventure by living out your kinky, erotic and naughty fantasies.
1. The Space Odyssey
To infinity and beyond!
2. Hello Kitty S&M Room
The kinky side of Hello Kitty. If you thought the Hello Kitty vibrators sounded fun, maybe you should try the Hello Kitty S&M room.
3. The Chikan Express
Tired of the “Please do it at home” poster campaign? Frustrated you can’t ride in the women-only passenger car? Live out your chikan fantasies and dodge the anti-groping laws in this train carriage themed room.
4. The Classroom
Time for school you naughty boys & girls!
5. The Gyno Chair
Perfect for the amateur gynecologist and aspiring medical students.
6. The Hentai Anime Room
Lovers of ero manga can live out their ‘ecchi’ fantasies.
7. The Office
Need some extra RAM for your IBM PC?
8. The Japanese Whaler
Bring your harpoon for a bit of humpback.
9. The Library
Do the Dewey and book it with a librarian.
10. The Supply Cupboard
Indulge in your forbidden ō eru (office lady) fantasy.
If you intend to visit a Love Hotel in Japan an essential companion is The Japanese-English Guide to Sex, Kink and Naughtiness. It contains an exhaustive collection of over 500 sexy, kinky and naughty words and descriptions not found in ordinary dictionaries or language guides.
Sources:
1. Satellite of Love: Vanishing Beauty of Japanese Love Hotels
2. Misty Keasler
Shake Your Kitty
Top 10 Cosplay Fails
Hello Kitty Garbage Truck
Hello Titty Kitty
Love Machine
The Envoy
emuu
scott j
freedomwv
JK
Jamaipanese
locohama
Ryan-San
Steve
willis
great list reesan! Think I stayed at thatr humpback whale one by accident once in Shibuya…the gynochair and the office look pretty fun!
RT’d already!
Keep up the good work!
Loco
you’re the man, loco! cheers mate.
Yes. I stayed at the Whale one too. I know exactly where that hotel is in Shibuya. Our bed had a sub-woofer under it!
Personally, I think I’d book the room called Japanese Whaler as the silhouettes of whales would make me look thin by comparison.
Do they also have a John Merrick room?
presumably you’re reference to John Merrick is the Elephant Man. i’m sure they can cater for everyone, if that is you’re persuasion.
Hey, get a bunch of friends together for an all-nighter and wind down any leftover time with an afterglowy game of Clue.
(The best part of the supply closet room presumably being the frequent drop-ins by stout matrons?)
Those are some interesting themes. What shocked me most though, was that when I read your reference to the Dewey decimal system, I almost couldn’t remember what it was. I’ve only been in a library 2 times in the last ten years.
life before google. seems like a lifetime ago.
Lots of photos of the kinkier themed rooms around Kansai on my site here, too:
http://www.fuckedupjapan.com/love-hotel-photos/
Anyone have a favourite in Kyoto/Osaka? I heard that due to new planning permission laws, kinky love hotels are on the decline and basically there wont be any new ones. So, lets sharing favourite places!
thanks for dropping by jamie. some really cool and kinky pics in your love hotel collection too!
btw, this website reports (the article is over 1 year old though) that the Hello Kitty S&M room is gone forever.
Holy crap, that is a crying shame. I guess that explains why their site is down…
Well, now its even more important to find some decent new ones! People!?
Nice article. Only in Japan.
Did you partake in a lot of primary research, me wonders..
Anyway, do you happen to have the address of the one with the Gyno Chair?
Would like to cunduct a thorough examination there!
Pictures are nice, but it would have been better with addresses (and maybe prices too).
@RMK: Hello Kitty SM room and some of th other dodgy ones are all from Hotel Adonis (アドニス）in osaka
Here’s a map to the location –
http://love.e-kuchi.com/item/2823
I tried to find their hotel site for you too, but it appears to be down right now. I do hope they havent shut down. Someone check please?
http://www.adnis.jp
If you like this concept, you should appreciate the Love Hotel in Pontoise, next to Paris, the first love hotel in France. Opening next August!