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

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:

And this one that was a little slightly more appropriately 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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“Pick up the Phone…”

A rare gem
Not my photo, but I recently went with a friend to the store where it was bought (Hysteric Glamour)

Sex Machine Barbeque

Engrish cracks me up… I know it shouldn’t, and I shouldn’t enjoy laughing at other people’s stupidity. Wait, yeah, actually I should. Because it’s damn funny.

Today I saw an Osaka fashion queen girl wearing a shirt that said: Eating Brains Starts Here.

A few other gems I found:

An Advertisement for a club called…

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