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Anime girl holograms to start working as hotel staff at Tokyo’s “Weird Hotel”【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 29, 2020 - Tweet
The Idolmaster cast will be waiting to serve travelers.
- Japan
- (anime • Asakusa • COK • cool • Henn na Hotel • hotels • idol singers • Idolmaster • Idols • Tokyo • travel • video games • weird)
Japan’s all-anime-themed hotel previews rooms, is ready to welcome guests
- Casey Baseel
Oct 5, 2020
Five popular franchises are the first batch of tie-ups at the Tokorozawa Sakura Town hotel.
- Japan
- (A Certain Scientific Railgun • anime • cool • EJ Anime Hotel • hotels • Saitama • Tokorozawa • travel • Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out)
Stay in Love Live! Sunshine!!’s Mari’s glamorous room, relax like an anime schoolgirl idol
- Katy Kelly
Oct 3, 2020
Die-hard fans of the series can once more sleep in Mari Ohara’s bed, dry off with her monogrammed towels, and take her room key home as a souvenir.
- Japan
- (anime • Awashima • expensive • hotels • Love Live Sunshine!! • Mari Ohara • otaku • tourism • Wyndham Grand Awashima)
Downtown Tokyo hotel makes its rooms absolutely free in exchange for one small favor
- Casey Baseel
Sep 5, 2020
All it takes is a few seconds to earn a free night, and they’ll even give you complimentary beer and sashimi.
Visiting the hotel half-destroyed by the 3-11 tsunami is a powerful reminder of what was lost
- Casey Baseel
Sep 2, 2020
This preserved Tohoku building goes from completely devastated to practically unharmed in just a few floors.
- Japan
- (3-11 earthquake and tsunami • COK • disasters • hotels • Iwate • moving • SNJO • Tohoku • travel • tsunami)
Why stay at a hotel in Japan when you can rent this entire mountain instead?【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 28, 2020
Yes, you get a cabin too, but the real appeal is having an entire mountain to yourself.
Writer’s retreat ryokan — Tokyo inn treats you like novelist on deadline, with strict “editors”
- Dale Roll
Aug 27, 2020
Learn what it feels like to be a novelist with an editor hounding you about your manuscript!
- Japan
- (COK • cool • experience • funny • hotels • inns • novelist • ryokan • SNJO • themed hotel • Tokyo • travel • weird • writer • writing)
Yamagata prefecture to open “kimono retreat hotel” in 2021 based in historic renovated property
- Katy Kelly
Aug 25, 2020
Area will offer great opportunities to learn about the local culture, as well as the wonderful world of kimono craftsmanship.
- Japan
- (culture • history • hotels • kimono • Okuyama Residence • ryokan • samurai • Tomohiro • travel • Uesugi Yozan • Yamagata Prefecture)
Traditional Japanese inn offers ultimate amenity: A cat companion to spend the night with
- Casey Baseel
Aug 18, 2020
Hot spring town ryokan lets guests try out the experience of owning a cat so they can learn if they want a permanent pet of their very own.
Now you can ‘stay’ in a Japanese castle without even leaving your sofa
- Katie Pask
Aug 14, 2020
There are even futons for you to ‘sleep’ on!
- Japan
- (castles • cool • Ehime • history • hotels • stay home • technology • travel • virtual reality • VR)
Possibly the cutest hotel rooms in the world – Hello Kitty themed rooms to open in Tokyo
- Katie Pask
Aug 14, 2020
Mixing traditional Japanese design with modern cuteness!
All-anime-themed hotel opening in Japan’s Tokorozawa Sakura Town【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 5, 2020
A new place to stay not far from the real-world inspiration for the setting of My Neighbor Totoro.
Stay at an old samurai residence in the heart of a “Little Kyoto” warrior town
- Oona McGee
Jul 26, 2020
Swords, armour and ceremonial items are just some of the samurai secrets awaiting you inside this secluded compound.
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- (accommodation • Akita • beautiful • COK • cool • culture • history • hotels • Kakunodate • Katana • museums • samurai • SNOJ • swords • travel)
Sleeping with the noodles – Ramen-themed hotel room now accepting guests in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Jul 23, 2020
Amenities set travelers up with enough ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Rotting corpse discovered by two men exploring “haunted hotel” in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Apr 20, 2020
Hotel stopped taking living guests almost 30 years ago.
100 mild and no-symptom coronavirus patients in Tokyo set to be relocated to hotel for quarantine
- Dale Roll
Apr 8, 2020
Tokyo officials hope the move will help open up more hospital beds for those needing serious medical attention.
- Japan
- (coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • hotels • Tokyo • Toyoko Inn)
Indulge in this sumo, public bath-themed room during your next stay in Tokyo’s Harajuku district
- Krista Rogers
Mar 24, 2020
“Dosukoi” is the next iteration of themed travel accommodations being offered by the fun and inventive Moshi Moshi Rooms.
- Japan
- (accommodation • Airbnb • Asobi System • Harajuku • hotels • Moshi Moshi Rooms • public bath • public baths • Rokuyon • sento • Sumo • travel)
Hakone onsen ryokan offers crazy cheap “Gimme a flippin’ break from the coronavirus” room deals
- Oona McGee
Mar 6, 2020
Less than $US40 a night gets you two luxury meals and a room with a private rotenburo bath attached.
- Japan
- (accommodation • cheap • COK • crazy • Hakone • hot springs • hotels • onsen • rotenburo • ryokan • tourism • tourists • travel)
Shibuya capsule hotel comes with free beers, unusual beds and unique soundless wake-up system
- Oona McGee
Feb 14, 2020
Cheap accommodation in Tokyo offers one of the best high-tech deals in the city.
- Japan
- (accommodation • capsule hotels • COK • hotels • Shibuya • SNOJ • The Millennials • Tokyo • travel)
Japan Ninja Council produces first-ever official hotel room in Tokyo’s Ueno
- Casey Baseel
Feb 8, 2020
Spacious eight-person room makes a perfect base for shinobi missions in Tokyo, but passing up sushi counter room is a hard choice.
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Foreign tourist numbers drop in Osaka, despite record-setting highs from U.S. and Korea
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