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$18 Japanese Capsule Hotel

2019-10-06 · 11 min

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    Um, have a check-in. Okay, first night?

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    Uh, one night. Okay, one night.

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    And okay, thank you.

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    Uh, here's your reservation. Yeah, are you

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    travel? Uh, yes, travel. Can I make a

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    copy?

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    Thank you. Thank you.

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    Do you prefer lower bed or the upper bed?

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    Um, lower. Okay, thank you.

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    Could you sign your name here?

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    So for tonight, do you want to pay by cash

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    or card? Um, cash please.

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    So the bridge will be first ¥3,056.

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    Thank you very much.

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    Thank you.

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    Is this your first time in Niseiwa Capsule

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    Hotel? Uh, yes. So this will be your key

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    for entrance. For you guys, your sleep pod

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    and locker number. Inside the locker

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    there's a amenity bag, so when you check

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    out tomorrow, just return us amenity bag,

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    slipper, key card here. Okay, thank you

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    very much. Thank you. Uh, is it this way?

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    This way, yes. Thanks.

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    Very fancy.

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    So nice.

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    Which way

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    Why is

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    there a naked guy?

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    Very confusing.

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    Which number? 49. So I should

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    be here.

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    Someone's snoring.

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    Oh, my feet stink. My feet smell so bad.

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    Oh, I can smell my feet from here.

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    This is so weird.

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    This is so weird.

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    It's a pretty basic capsule hotel.

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    There's a light switch and

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    a USB port and

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    some kind of plug socket. That's it,

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    there's nothing else.

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    You get a little shelf.

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    I guess it's okay.

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    So that was my capsule hotel. I wanted to

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    make a video in there, but it was just so

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    quiet that it was too embarrassing to

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    speak. Everyone would be able to hear me.

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    There was some bloody guy snoring the

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    whole time as well, which was very

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    irritating. So annoying because most of

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    the capsules were empty and they put

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    everyone bunched together next to each

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    other when they could have spaced us out a

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    little bit. It seems like a nice capsule

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    hotel. It's very clean, very modern

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    looking. Looks quite new as well.

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    It's just weird. It was 5 PM in the

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    afternoon and that guy was snoring for

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    about 2 hours. Who comes to Japan and then

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    just ends up sleeping all day long

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    snoring? And there was this other guy

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    sneezing. That's the annoying thing about

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    capsule hotels. You're so close to

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    everyone else, you can hear everything.

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    You can hear the snoring, the coughing,

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    the sneezing, any movement they make,

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    you'll be able to hear it. The reason why

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    I decided to go for a capsule hotel was

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    because, well, I want to go into— I want

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    to move into this guest house, but the

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    stupid manager hasn't replied. I'm

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    guessing it's because it's Sunday today.

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    Maybe he doesn't check his email on

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    Sunday. So I decided to spend

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    tonight at that capsule hotel. Hopefully

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    tomorrow I'll be able to move into the

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    guest house. I can't really afford to keep

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    staying at Airbnbs, and I think the guest

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    house would be nice because I can meet

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    people as well.

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    I don't know why they like spraying the

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    ground with water in Japan.

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    A lot of people just sitting around.

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    I'm in Namba. It's quite

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    nice, quite a relaxed

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    atmosphere.

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    Lots of places to eat. Maybe I'll get

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    something to eat and then head back to the

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    capsule hotel. Hopefully it won't be more—

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    hopefully there won't be more snoring

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    during the night.

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