A Business Idea You Should Steal: The Perfect Love Hotel
by projecthitchhiker on January 11, 2008
in Awesome Stuff, Japan
I’ve done a lot of research in the past little while about Japanese Love Hotels, and I consider myself to be something of an expert on the topic.
The other day I thought of a brilliant business idea: a love hotel in Canada or the US. Not in small city like Halifax or Ottawa – it would have to be somewhere big and cosmopolitan like Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. Probably Montreal, as there’s 1) money, 2) liberal attitudes, and 3) plenty of tourists with money.
I actually think if you could keep the concept/reputation as a “classy establishment to fulfill fantasies with your partner”, you could charge a lot of money for this. The sexual attitudes of the general public have opened up in the last few years and now would definitely be the time to start said project.
That said, if I were building the perfect love hotel, it would have the following improvements on the Japanese archetype:
Way more crazy-themed rooms that I imagine people would be into, for example…
-a stripper fantasy room, complete with stripper pole, strobe lights, (disco ball?), lap-dance chair, and strip-bar music sound system
-an island paradise room, complete with fake waterfall, palm trees and hammocks.
-a dungeons and dragons or medieval themed room (for all you RPG fans…)
-“The Gym” room – looks like a workout gym, complete with weight sets and equipment; use your imagination
Kinky Japan: “The 48 Techniques of Winning in Sumo” and Hotel Chapel Christmas Love Hotel
by projecthitchhiker on December 25, 2007
in Accountability Lists, Japan
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.