HotelChatter - Tag: Capsule Hotels

Tokyo: What Tokyo Capsule Hotel Should We Choose?

JetSetCD — 2010-09-29T15:55:22-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/9HrsPod.jpg" class="top"> Back in December of 2009, a new sort of hotel opened in Japan. It's a capsule hotel sure, but it's one unplagued by shochu-swigging salarymen who rent capsules by the month. It's called <a href="http://9hours.jp/">9Hours Hotel</a> and it prides itself on being technologically up-to-date, very clean, very design-aware and yet completely affordable. We've got an upcoming trip to Japan and we were totally psyched at the idea of sleeping there, until we discovered that the 9Hours is not in Tokyo as we thought, but in Kyoto and it's the only one of its kind. Sad face! Why is Tokyo lacking the 9Hours love? Perhaps it's because the city is already well-stocked with capsule hotels, skyscraper Western hotels

Kyoto City: Another Day, Another Cute Capsule Hotel

MsRebecca — 2010-03-31T12:35:14-05:00

We’ve been on a bit of a Capsule Hotel roll lately, so why stop now? The latest itty-bitty hotel rooms to capture our attention are in—where else?—Japan, at the highly conceptualized 9 Hours Hotel. What makes this one so special is not just the lines of pods that makes us think of rows of washing machines, but the minimalist design that flows through the entire property.

Capsule Hotels Strike Back! The Atlantis Capsule Hotel Has Our Attention

MsRebecca — 2010-03-18T13:10:07-05:00

UPDATE: More capsule hotels arrive in the form of the Sleep Box!

Last week, we thought we'd moved on from the capsule hotel trend to the micro-hotel trend, especially ones with private bathrooms. But there's a new capsule hotel on the block that's snagged our attention with their pretty but pretty claustrophobic designs---the Atlantis Capsule Hotel.

There's not much to go on about this new capsule hotel design though. The background photo for the hotel’s Twitter account shows what looks like a double-decker tanning bed, and so far all the info we can glean on this project also comes via tweets.

London: London's Trocadero to Get Japanese-Style Pod Hotel

Jennifer Kester — 2010-01-11T09:44:18-05:00

Looks like London is copying Japan's longtime capsule hotel craze and putting the tiny pod-like rooms in bustling Piccadilly Square.

Except instead of Japanese businessmen checking in, the hotel will likely see Olympic groupies, since the budget hotel is scheduled to be completed by the London 2012 Games. The 495-room hotel will be housed in the second to seventh floors of the Trocadero, an entertainment complex with tenants like Funland—no word yet on the fate of the gamer haven. Though the lower floors are supposed to offer retail and entertainment outlets.

Japan's Job-Seekers Find Home in Capsule Hotels, Just Don't Invite the Mistress

Heidi Atwal — 2010-01-04T15:59:55-05:00

Hearing about businessmen who turn their hotel room into a home-away-from-home is no new phenomenon. There may even be a wife-away-from-home involved, but that's a different story altogether.

Also nothing new are those teeny, tiny capsule hotel "rooms"—if they can even be called that—common to Japan. They're cute and quirky to us Americans, sure, but these days they're serving a different purpose. With the economy having taken a turn for the worst in 2009, some of the country's unemployed have turned to dwelling at places like the Hotel Shinjuku as they search for new jobs, reports the New York Times.