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Where Do You Take Your Virtual Girlfriend on a Romantic Getaway?

According to this WSJ article, you head to the Hotel Ohnoya in the resort town of Atami, Japan where men playing the Japanese dating simulation game, LovePlus+, can check in without discrimination or jokes about their girlfriend not being real.

LovePlus+ allows the men who play it to choose from three girls to be their steady girlfriends but just like a real relationship, this dating simulation requires lots of work. Played on the Nintendo DS, the men make sure they walk their girlfriend to school, send her flirtatious text messages and even carry on conversations using the device's microphone.

The boyfriend then earns "boyfriend power" points and if he earns enough, he and his lady can take a virtual trip to the resort town of Atami, once very popular with honeymooners.

Yet, it's this virtual trip that some "boyfriends" have been yearning to recreate in real life. And since Atami has been losing business in recent decades, they decided, "What the heck? Yes, let Japanese men and their virtual girlfriends come to visit us!" And it's working, frighteningly so.

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