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Project Hitchhiker is the online creative outlet of Mike H.

Mike’s adventures have taken him across 3 continents, including driving a motorcycle for 6 months across Southeast Asia, hitchhiking across Canada and Japan, and walking 1000 miles along the coastline of Nova Scotia. Mike’s passions are music, travel and motorcycles (in that order). Mike’s dislikes include writing about himself in the third person. This site is a collection of his travels, stories and adventures in lifestyle design.

Kinky Japan: “The 48 Techniques of Winning in Sumo” and Hotel Chapel Christmas Love Hotel

Filed Under (Accountability Lists, Japan) by projecthitchhiker on 25-12-2007

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Christmas in Japan

Christmas in Japan is for lovers. In Canada, people enjoy special time with their families, going to church and such. Here in Osaka, the streets are lined with couples going to movies, shopping for couture, and lined up to eat fried chicken. Yeah, apparently KFC has done such a good job at marketing in Japan that most Japanese people think it’s what North Americans do. Another point for capitalism (although it’s not like it’s difficult, here in Japan).


This holiday season, I decided to go in search of the famed Santa-themed Love Hotel, Hotel Chapel Christmas. Again I enlisted the help of a research partner to join me. First, we did one of my top 10 favorite things to do in Japan: Kaiten Sushi bar hopping (the restaurants where you pick your sushi from a revolving conveyor belt; each plate costs about a dollar). This is basically going a sushi place, eating two or three plates of their best/freshest sushi, then picking up and doing the same at the next three or four sushi restaurants.

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