HotelChatter - Tag: Japanese Love Hotels

Osaka: The Hello Kitty Room at the Hotel Adonis is Gone Forever

amandak — 2009-01-15T10:03:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/hello_kitty_love_hotel_1.jpg " class="top"> No! Say it isn't true! HotelChatter tipster quimbys has just passed on some devastating news to us from on-the-spot in Osaka. Allow us to explain our distress We're sure you haven't forgotten one of our favorite Japanese love hotels, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Adonis+Osaka/local/576">Hotel Adonis </a> in Tennoji, central Osaka. As if the whole love hotel concept isn't fascinating enough, the Adonis was specializing in cute-character-themed S&M and was home to the famous <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/16/104138/231/hotels/Hello_Kitty_S_M_Room_At_Hotel_Adonis_Osaka">Hello Kitty S&M Room</a>. Note the use of past tense here? That's because this is the recent news from on the ground:<blockquote>I went by there this morning, January 11, 2009, and the place was inexplicably closed. My guess is that authorities found out about

Are Japanese Love Hotels Dangerous for Old Guys?

juliana — 2008-12-03T15:55:24-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/hello_kitty_love_hotel_1.jpg" class="top">We at HotelChatter are in love with the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Japanese-Love-Hotels-Map">Japanese Love Hotels.</a> The cheesy kitschy themes ranging from Alcatraz to Hello! Kitty can entertain us hours just reading about them. But the love hotels have a dark side to them and it has to do with the dreaded V word. No, it's not vampires although they are en vogue these days. It's actually Viagra. Yes, the drug that you hate to see advertised in your email inbox is being popped by older gentlemen right before they check into these love hotels and sometimes the outcome is not always the desired one. From <a href="http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2008/11/29/death-by-viagra-causing-grief-for-love-hotel-owners/">The Tokyo Reporter</a>:<blockquote>The anonymous love hotel proprietor tells Nikkan Gendai (Nov. 29) that over the

Osaka: The Fun of the Fair at Hotel Public Jam

amandak — 2007-10-16T13:05:43-05:00

<![CDATA[ <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/publicjamstory.jpg" class="imgborder"><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/Japanese-Love-Hotels-Map"><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/pamplona_story.jpg" align="right"></a> Over in love-hotel-mad Osaka, there's a weirdly named love hotel that we haven't exposed yet: the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Public+Jam/local/898/">Hotel Public Jam</a> in southern downtown Osaka, near the Uehonmachi station. Hotel Public Jam (or Hotel PJ for those in the know) has a pretty extensive <a href="http://www.public-jam.com/">website</a> with a menu all in English: but with all of the content only in Japanese. What we can tell you is there seems to be a high proportion of pink used in the Hotel PJ rooms.To give you a bit more info, the <a href="http://www.quirkyjapan.or.tv/hotels.html">Quirky Japan</a> site had this to say in summary of the Public Jam:<blockquote> This cute, modern hotel is fairly unexceptional except for the merry-go-round

Osaka: No Bulls at the Love Hotel Pamplona in Osaka

amandak — 2007-10-09T12:05:47-05:00

We've tried looking outside Osaka for some hotel lovin', but apart from Tokyo's very colorful Hotel J Girl they just don't stack up in terms of weird features, kinky rooms and razzle dazzle. So it's back to Osaka where we're thinking of trying out the Hotel Pamplona, because staying in a love hotel sounds like something that really should be likened to the running of the bulls, agreed?

Situated in downtown Dotonbori (the heart of Osaka, and the name of the river as well as the main street), Hotel Pamplona meets our requirements by having a colorfully interesting front door and some really weird stuff going on inside.

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Osaka: Love Hotel Hell: Hotel Chapel Christmas

Judson — 2007-10-08T09:20:01-05:00

[Ed. Note: Jaunted contributor AJ McGuire recently finished a tour of Osaka and reported back to us on the town's changing love hotel scene.]

Sure, sure, different strokes for different folks and all that but this? While restraint and good taste have never been guiding lights for the love hotel industry, coaxing couples to put in some labor at Santa's cotton candy colored workshop, AKA Hotel Chapel Christmas, seems to be crossing some sort of line.

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