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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.

“Come On My House!” — Love Hotels, Sexy Engrish, and Quote-Unquote “Research”

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

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Adventures in Love Hotel Land

In keeping up with the accountability list I posted the other day, I decided to go in search of the “Gang Snowman” Love Hotel. This hotel is kind of underground-famous in Osaka for its Cadillac-converted spa on the roof (the headlights flash and horn honks when the car shakes…) and it’s extreme S&M themed rooms.


First step was to enlist a research assistant (who shall remain anonymous…) and then head to the love hotel district: Tanimachi 9-cho-me.


My research assistant and I came across a few strangely named love hotels, but no “Gang Snowman”…


We found this one for kinky Vegans:

Vegetarian Love Hotel


And this one that was a little slightly more appropriately named.

Aptly named


We went and checked out the pictures of the rooms, but there wasn’t anything too exciting, so we kept on.

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