Tokyo Capsule Hotel Experience

Shinjuku it's one of the busiest and brightest areas in the world. It's called by some the backyard of Tokyo. A place where you can go and have fun.It's also a popular place for tourists to stay if you wanna be near the action.So here we are in the heart of Shinjuku and this is my friend MASA from the Pirates of Tokyo Bay. Hello everyone! And guess what we' re here because of unfortunate circumstances and wasn't really either our fault we were kinda making a heavy fun.... Maybe having too much fun yeah we ended up missing the train This is Golden GAI the bar area and a place where you can be easily lose track of time Luckily we were near this capsule hotel situated right in the centre Shinjuku which is really popular with Japanese businessman if they go out late, drink a little bit too much or work too late maybe their wives are.... don't really want to see them tonight... It's very convenient to come here without a reservation And also a lot of foreign tourists wanna check out this place too, so they come here experience what it's like The Shinjukuku kuyakusho-mae capsule hotel checkin starts at 4 p.m. take off your shoes at the entrance and put them in a locker, give the key to the front desk you'll need it again if you want to leave the hotel its 4,500 yen a night but there are loads of online coupons that offer discounts especially if you make a reservation There are 430 individual capsules here The sixth and seventh floor is for men the eighth floor is reserved for women only don't lose the wristband key put it on and keep it with you. The number is important there's a locker near the lobby where you can leave your belongings and change towels and pajamas are inside it's also your capsule number But first, let's change into our pajamas yes we're gonna do just that right now yeah So MASA why do we have to wear these pajamas? well John because it's more comfortable and you could go to the bathroom alright take a bath the kinda COOL Is this what we call a JIN-BEI? and I call it a very comfortable clothes the bath very elegant the Japanese bath is perfect place to not only get clean but relax and let the troubles of the day and night melt away.It's only proper to provide toothbrushes and razors for free shampoo and soap as well its time to head to the capsule upstairs the capsule floor is dark and quite. Its like that for a reason this is where you sleep many say it reminds them of the morgue or a coffin where vampires sleep It just depends on how you look at it enter and try for yourself...if you dare MASA is in the bottom capsule and heads in first. What's his impression? alright so here's the bottom part of the capsule hotel it's not it's not too small and I can like extend my arms like this So its very comfortable, you can do whatever you want and if you wanna go to sleep You can turn off the light like this and sleep and yeah and you have a curtain right here so yeah before you go to sleep make sure you role down the curtains to go to sleep so Good night everyone.I it's been nice knowing y'all and have a nice night I have to climb to small ladder for the upper capsule it's sort of like a bunk bed pretty comfortable it's not exactly what I expected expected it to be a lot tighter and more constrain that was my image but this capsule is two meters long one meter wide 1 meter high seems to be the perfect size almost like a twin size bedding here KISHO KUROKAWA the architect of these capsule hotels also create a building called the NAKAGIN capsule towers in SHINMABSHI. Capsule hotels were designed in the nineteen seventies with the future in mind so were the NAKAGIN capsule towers the round windows give the impression of a spaceship They're cozy, and everything you need inside bath, kitchen, bed. TV Outside they look like cargo containers. A practical idea yes really comfortable! If you take a look, my feet are in here yeah I'm 180 centimetres tall I have about 10 centimetres to spare 10 20 centimeters so..comfortable these capsules have what you need for the night a TV , air vent an alarm , radio and electrical outlet fast and free WiFi just remember the golden rule: be quiet this floor is meant for sleeping and alone time So...just how small are they? only one way to find out two grown men we have the walls around... We're gonna sleep like this all the time This is your area....so don't even touch it! Don't even think about it! This is no man's land Better off solo in these things Each guest must check out at 10 a.m. every day even if you have reserved more than one night Take all your belongings with you! That also means every capsule is made up again. If you want to stay during the day special capsules are available for 500 yen an hour each capsule has fresh sheets by 4 p.m. many capsule hotels have a small restaurant this restaurant is open from 6 p.m. to midnight the food its good!! The vegetarian tofu burger set is 700 yen the daily special Menchikatsu, a breaded meat patty for 700 yen Snacks are 300 yen each EDAMAME and grilled squid slices perfect with the 400-yen draft beer after a bath and changing into your pajamas it can be a hassle to change into your street clothes again for those that just want to chill out this is the way to go and no cash needed!! show your wrist KeyBand and pay at checkout two guys from the UK just checked in why stay here? just a convenience of it You have to be out by 10 which helps us daily to get up You have to check out so a green light by your capsule number indicates a checked in status the power is on you can put your arms up not too much to the side You have privacy as well Hey ladies rest easy the security is ON! the women's floor requires a pass code to enter. Security cameras as well at the door No men allowed but after checkout we got an inside look The locker seemed bigger and newer! the capsule seem cleaner the floor is hard wood, making it easier to sweep up all that hair the bathroom? clean and modern. Everything is new including those smart toilets that auto open and close This is heaven it's late I can't sleep it's time for a midnight snack near the lounge there's an instant Raman vending machine. In fact there are a lot of machines beer drink laundry Pick a Ramen and fill it up with hot water and grab a chair in front of the TV not bad, eh? this is living So, whether you drank too much amd missed the last train just need a place to crash or just want to try the capsule hotel experience on your trip around Japan no reservations needed here just come on im and chill out for a while

Channel: WAO RYU!ONLY in JAPAN

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Id: S0-oNv51j9o

Length: 12min 28sec (748 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 25 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/PoorLucas]

Reminds me of Deus Ex

[u/[deleted]]

Really like this channel! Thanks for posting this.

[u/I-baLL]

This is the exact hotel I stayed at when I went to Tokyo. I couldn't find it for the longest time because:

a.) Tokyo streets rarely have names

and

b.) It starts on the 7th floor of a building. The "hotel" sign is waay above you and you need to know to look up to find it. Tokyo is like Hong Kong in the sense that it's a vertical city so you have to think in 3 dimensions when trying to find stuff.

The entrance that they show when they go into the building is actually a bit of a wide hallway outside filled with pay lockers to the left and right of you. The lockers are independent of the hotel and are just there for..uh.. I guess whatever random use. Then you walk past the lockers, turn to your left and take the elevator to the lobby.

I wish that they showed the full control panel. There's a "band" button that switched the tv station band. There's the normal band which has all the normal channels and then the second band is only a single channel showing Japanese porn. It's kinda cool and kinda weird since I don't think people are gonna masturbate in that area. Yeah, it's a weird thought but it was the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw that. Still, not complaining. Oh, and, yes, the only "door" to the capsule is a blind made out of wooden strips. And you can hear your neighbors quite easily, especially if they snore. I don't get bothered by that so it was fine. The other thing is that it's much better than a hostel filled with bunk beds because what you do on the top or the bottom doesn't cause support beams to carry the vibrations to your neighbor like what happens with bunk beds. If the capsules were bigger I wouldn't mind living in one but that's another story.

Oh, the bathrooms. There's common bathrooms with urinals and toilets but the showers are located in the public bath section. You go in and basically you get naked. There's blue mesh cloth which is apparently used to cover up tattoos since tattoos are kinda taboo in Japan since they raise the association with Yakuza or something to that effect. I found this explanation out later. You can go into a bath which looks like a big jacuzzi with other people in it but I didn't do that. I just took a shower. (In Japan people shower after taking a bath because in a bath you're basically relaxing in your own dirt.) The shower, if I remember correctly, is taken with a handheld showerhead. You sit on an upside-down bucket and shower and shave and stuff and you're in front of a mirror. The mirror has sinks and the shower heads in front of it. It's pretty cool. I came in and acted very slow so I could spy on other people to see what was the proper way of doing things. I don't think I fucked up too bad.

Oh, and don't stay in a capsule hotel for your first day or second day in Tokyo because jet lag might hit you hard and since you get kicked out at 10am you might end up staying awake all night and passing out right at checkout time.

Oh, and this video seems like it's made by some agency promoting tourism in Japan. It doesn't seem to be made for native English speakers but for anybody who speaks English because they use weird phrasing and simple vocabulary. In the vending machine video of the same series they keep saying "large assortment" or was it "big selection"? They don't say "selection of what" which is how most native english speakers would phrase it so basically this seems like a tourist promotion video. It's pretty damn good though and I've been checking out some of the other videos from the series on my Roku. I know. So cyberpunk.

[u/patrickeg]

A bit corny, but informative.