It seems the foreign media has just discovered what a love hotel is.
Only the other day we blogged about an article that held the love hotel industry up as a shining light in Japan’s economic doldrums.
Now AFP have followed up with this recent video report to accompany the same article in which an intrepid camera crew interview a hotel manager about the love hotel system.
Pressing buttons, pay, get the key and then go up… “Discretion is guaranteed.”
There is a nice touch where the camera lingers over a catalog advertising some sexy costumes.
It also features footage of “The Rock”, a quasi-haunted house-style hotel.
“We go [to love hotels] for the atmosphere. It’s a change from home,” says one man who uses hotels for fun times with his girlfriend. She stands next to him, smiling but looking a little more reluctant to discuss the details of their sex life with a random camera crew in central Tokyo.
Another guy — funny how the girls don’t do the talking — explains to the reporter that he and his girlfriend “both work” and live “a long way” from each other, so “when we go out for the evening “nice to see each other in a beautiful bedroom nearby”. I sense some euphemisms being employed here!
Here’s the report.
We do somewhat regret that there is no look-in for a major component of the love hotel clientele, where the hotels service those who are not a formal “couple”, but rather men who want an hour to enjoy the embrace of a lady — for the price of a few pieces of silver, naturally.
