Eusko_Tren's General Tip
Japan:Capsule Hotel Fontaine Akasaka4500 / nightHow small can you make a room for someone to sleep in?In Japan, there are Capsule Hotels - each guest leases a sort of plastic coffin. It's usually around three feet by three feet by six feet, with a TV and a light hanging from the ceiling. It's enough room to sleep and maybe sit up. But the only thing separating you from the rest of the capsules above, below, and all around you is a little cloth curtain. So if you're laying in there, and someone walks by, they're inches from your bare feet, and if any of the forty to sixty other gents sleeping in the same large capsule-filled room snores or coughs or gets a mobile phone call, you're gonna hear it.Bearing this in mind, I rolled into the Capsule Hotel Fontaine Akasaka with earplugs. It had been a late night wandering Roppongi... I was looking forward to sleeping in. The rooms are so small,...
