I don't know if it is like this anymore but when my best friend and I went to Japan 6 years ago we had a hard time getting into any of them because they wouldn't let two women stay in a room together. :(

“Accidentally”

@@UFOHunterNikki this surprising because in most of those, everything in it is either automated or the receptionist is behind a screen/curtain, just a pass where hands can go through and they can't see you and they don't directly talk to you. How did they even know you were two women ? Are you sure it was a love hotel ??

*this love ain't gon' be platonic for long, boy.*

Well since we are here 🤨

WilliMel Not long before he hits a well deserved 1m subs! 🎉

I agree. That's why 's sponsored by Audible. Well deserved.

Why not both? It sure adds to the excitement /jk

“Let's play a game"

L C What’s a escape hotel

L C 🤣🤣🤣👍

It's_Wolfia Playz I don't know and don't want to find out!

Get a job in Japan, two birds one stone.

Rasta Fonz you probably meant to be funny, but it isn’t funny at all. And you’re just dragging down all males with you bud.

True. I barely make ends meet.

If you're going by yourself, $3,000 should be enough for a decent stay. Which will equal out to saving less than $9 each day for a year.

Traveling to Japan is actually pretty cheap, ~$700 for a flight if you book far enough ahead and you can make it a couple weeks on less than $1000. Speaking from experience as I've done it twice from the US.

I don't get it? 😅

@@FiveOClockTea IT is a play on a quote from the movie Lost in Translation: "For relaxing times, make it Suntory time." kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fM-BoatlmpbMgIE.html

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@@LifeWhereImFrom &trekkeruss oooh, I see, thanks a lot 😊 I've only watched that movie once, and in german to boot, so I didn't even think of it 😄

Mr Bob Harris!!

My thoughts exactly. I saw the pods and immediately felt sick , what if I can't operate the doors and I'm stuck in that tiny space.

@@RITZYRUTHY The pods does not have a door. Just something you pull down to close and up to open.

Yeah that was freaky about not being able to open the door in the love hotel. I wonder what the logic of that is ? To stop people sneaking out without paying ?

@@TahitianBlissMeeBee there was a option to open the door from the inside in a emergency but otherwise you had to call to the front desk to request to open the door.

juandenz2008 the point of a love hotel is for privacy with you and your “mate”. That’s why you don’t see any workers there as you are there to be discreet. I think the point of the door being self locked is one reason of escaping without pay, but mainly for people to not enter so you are not bothered. I too think it’s weird though lol.

My intent was actually to just be aware that unlike regular hotels, you may not be able to just have friends drop by. Or say you're with a group of buddies and need a place to crash because the trains stopped running, you might not be allowed all into a single room.

@@LifeWhereImFrom I had figured that was what you meant. It still didn't keep my mind from running into the gutter and cracking up though.

The group pricing is useful when you want to hold a party. Love Hotels are evolving, it is not just for what you are thinking. Girls are the ones who usually use it for parties. Especially when you go for those themed ones. It is far more cheaper than booking a restaurant or a event hall.

That's actually 100% PG....to mention a love hotel is not openly talking about sexual content XD love hotels are used for a variety of reasons.

Matando do you know what your user name means in spanish i hope it is not intentional

He could have shown a healthy annoyed mukade :-)

also rakuten travel, this usually has good deals (maybe only in japanese?) and I recently heard about trivago but never tried the latter.

@@Sally0602 Thanks. It's weird, I thought I had that in there but I didn't. So I fixed it. Cheers!

sau That’s true, we nearly fell victim to this but luckily our host in Tokyo kept the room for us

Thank you for the info!

Tons of articles on AirBNB www.japantimes.co.jp/tag/airbnb/. But yes, I probably should have gotten into that a bit. My feeling was because the new law has been in place for near half a year now, that all the problems with cancelled bookings would have largely subsided (because only those with proper licenses would be listed now).

Thank you for telling us!! I feel like most of these video lack detailed information. Especially pricing

RainAngel111 thanks to ‘Life Where I’m From’ you now know ahead of time ☺️

You can call the front desk. Also, as far as I know, that plastic cap on the lock could come off and let you get out if need be. It might trip an alarm though. In the case of emergency, I'd be surprised if all the doors didn't automatically unlocked. But I'm fairly uninitiated, so perhaps someone with more knowledge could step in.

@@LifeWhereImFrom I hope so. A fire would be pretty bad if you are locked in.

I'm making a wild guess. Was the door locked before you order-in your food? I know for a fact Love Hotels have a rule about not making contact between guests and hotel staff. In most Love Hotels there are no one at the front desk. You check-in yourself. This is what I have observed in most Love Hotel documentary videos. So I'm guessing they locked your door so that you cannot come out and jump the staff who is bringing your food.

@@zam023 Well, the interesting thing is that I booked two love hotels, one knowingly (for the video), and one unknowingly (as part of the trip, but I thought it was a regular hotel). For both of them, they seemed like they were expecting me, so one came out from a door behind the empty check-in desk and showed me my reservation and asked if it was me. It was at this hotel that I got "locked" in. I set the time for the food to come in advance the night before. As far as I know, the door was locked up until the food came. They want to pass the food through the little door, I assume, to maintain privacy. But once that food was passed through, I'm fairly sure they automatically opened the door, because how else would I go pay at the machine downstairs. However, since I tried to open the door earlier, I thought I was locked in, so I called the front desk and asked what to do. They said come downstairs and pay. Sure enough, I was able to do that at the machine. For the other love hotel (that I unknowingly booked), there was a person behind a screen that was half pulled down. I can't remember the conversation, but I must have said I have a reservation and then I proceeded to pay in advance. So, my door was always open at that one. I think that place was trying to go mainstream, or be two things at once, because they had the drink bar and their pricing was higher than a normal love hotel (but honestly, it was the least impressive of all my accommodations).

lol Much my response. Was fine until he showed that. Ewwww. Nope nope NOPE! Bad enough our bitty spiders here in Canada (though they can get a bit bigger out on the coast. Here in the mountains, they're pretty small. Even the Daddy Long Legs aren't that bad.). But yeah, I freaked out because of a large MOTH in my room. Never mind giant spiders. Ugh. Ugh. Yeah, maybe I'll just stay home and not travel. . .rotflol

Elentarien LoL. Better not visit here in Australia. Large but I’ve seen huntsmen spiders larger around here and I live in one of the large metropolitan cities!

omg I'm so glad I saw your comment before it came up 😓

I felt the same 😅😅😅

Honestly you can wear the same clothes as in any modern western/asian metropole. Just adjust after the season and be respectful at shrines and what not.

When I was in Tokyo back in October I noticed women of all ages dressed REALLY well. Their taste seem to be towards the classy and chic side on default.

I think Rachel from Rachelandjunsadventures did a video on this once.

Hello, I've living in Japan for a while and well, as for what I can tell and what my friends say too the rule of thumb over here is that the bust normally is completely covered here in japan, while from the waist down is more ”Free” to say so. On weekdays, normally, the predominant colors are typical office colors and opaque green colors. On the other hand, weekends are as free as possible, at least in Shinjuku, you can find almost anything but still the colors on "50%+" people just add a spectrum of light browns and paletes of soft colors and some stylish accents. If you would like to check, I'll recommend you to give a look to cheap and popular clothes brands like GU (www.gu-japan.com) and Uniqlo (www.uniqlo.com)'s websites as on the adds and promo pictures display to a certain extent the typical common style on weekends. I hope this helps! :D if I can help you with anything else I'll try to answer gladly. Have a nice day!

amandaggogo nah she just did a fall lookbook of her outfits and explained that cleavage is a no in japan

IMO Tokyo's dirt cheap compared to many (most?) major cities in the US, much less Seattle (the price for 1BRs in downtown Seattle are pushing $3K+). Average meal prices for eating out for low-mid end dining is 2-3X as well. I'm always struck by how many great low-cost options to eat out that Japan (and most Asian countries, honestly) have vs the US.

@@lhl definitely. Even fast food here is good quality. I had Karage last night with a big bowl of rice and miso for 600 yen. And the quality is so much better than anything in the US at that price range.

Doing something kind of like that... but kind of not.

Lol we were thinking about doing a video like this! But, you are generally not allowed to film inside gyms

Yes please!

@@LifeWhereImFrom This would be cool, I have been looking into Japan for about a year and this is something I have wondered too!

Did he ever do it? would love to check it out as well!!!

I AM SO THANKFUL 4.YOUR VITO,I,M HERE IN USA. AND MY BROTHER WAS THERE IN JAPAN, HE SAID IT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE HE EVER SAW IN HIS LIFE EVERY PLACE HE WENT TO WAS SO CLEAN ,HE WAS AMAZED HOW ALL THE STREETS AND BUILDING, WAS SO VERY CLEAN AND THE PEOPLE ARE SO GOOD TO YOU AND DRESSED SO MODEST AND CLEAN LOOKING ,AND WOMEN ARE SO BEAUTIFUL, THEY RESPECT THEMSELVES AND OTHERS NOT LIKE THE WOMEN HERE HALF NAKED.wanting men to look at them.HE COULD FEEL THE GOOD IN ALL THE PEOPLE IN JAPAN. HE LOVED IT THERE..TK.U.AGAIN 4.YR.HARD WORK .PLEASE DO MORE.THIS IS THE ONLY TIME I. EVER SAW JAPAN, AND I LOVE IT.

Life Where I'm From weve stayed at pricey hotels and pricey ryokans. Next spring, we will be staying at a registered airbnb.

My boyfriend went just a few months ago in July for study abroad in Tokyo. He stayed in myCube, something our college in San Diego sets up for them. The floor was divided by gender and he realized he didn’t even need to bring any pajamas on his trip since myCube gave new pajamas every night. Breakfast was even included in that hotel. It’s very inexpensive as well. He loved it. Aside from that, he loved everything about Japan and he’s hoping to take me next year. I can’t wait.

I've done all of them except capsule. For longer stay definitely, use AirBnB. However newer laws make it much much harder to use. Hostels are cheap, but I hate them, the beds are really terrible, especially in the Tokyo area. For short stays definitely check out the Love Hotels, usually less than $50US a night and large room and comfortable beds. There usually a couple near the airport so in case you have an early morning flight and the trains do not run that early, you are close by.

One of the things you forgot to mention was that older hotels and some new ones allow smoking in the room. One hotel that we stayed in had a sento and tatami mats but it absolutely reeked of cigarette smoke. And coming from a smoke free country it was like travelling back to the 80s!

Life Where I'm From we’ve been to three different types of accommodation when we were in Japan. First was via Airbnb in Nagoya and Osaka. Those accommodations were cool as we get to experience genuine Japanese household - from tatami floors to their toilet and bath. Second was a capsule hotel in Osaka. And then a legit hotel when we took the Osaka-Kyoto trip again. I would love to experience ryokan next time and the onsen. Love going back to Japan again and again.