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The Truth about Japanese Love Hotels (scary) [684RxfOYBbg]

2020-09-05 · 11 min

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  1. If you're interested in Japan, you may

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  2. have heard about something called a love

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  3. hotel. And since we don't have these love

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  4. hotels in Europe or the West, you may be

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  5. wondering what happens in these love

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  6. hotels. And that's what we will be finding

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  7. out today. You might think that love is

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  8. happening in these hotels, but The truth

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  9. is the complete opposite of love is

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  10. happening in these hotels. Love stands for

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  11. something pure, innocent, magical, and

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  12. beautiful, but what happens in these

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  13. hotels could not be any further from those

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  14. adjectives. And to tell us about his

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  15. experiences and stories inside of love

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  16. hotels, we have a very special guest here

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  17. today, my dear friend Bilbo. At first, he

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  18. didn't really want to share his stories

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  19. because they're kind of personal and

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  20. private, but I managed to twist his arm a

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  21. little bit and I convinced him to join us

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  22. today. Say hello, Bilbo. Hello.

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  23. Unfortunately, Bilbo had a bit of an

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  24. accident and has injured his jaw, so he

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  25. has difficulties speaking as of now. So

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  26. I'll be telling the story for him.

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  27. It was a cold winter's night and it was

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  28. softly raining down from the sky. A chill

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  29. lingered in the air like cheese on bread.

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  30. Bilbo had a pretty big argument with his

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  31. girlfriend the previous night and she

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  32. kicked him out, so he needed to find a

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  33. place to stay. The thing is with Bilbo is

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  34. he finds it difficult to sleep by himself.

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  35. He really needs something warm, some kind

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  36. of warm body laying beside him.

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  37. If he's to have a good night's sleep. He

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  38. shivered at the idea of having to sleep

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  39. alone tonight, all by himself, and a tear

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  40. started to form in his eyeball. Bilbo took

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  41. out his phone and had a look at his

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  42. friends list to see who was online that

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  43. night. Hmm, I could call her,

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  44. but I don't know, too fat,

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  45. too old. No, she's too smelly. Bilbo was

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  46. quickly reaching the end of his friends

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  47. list. Whatever shall he do? So he decided

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  48. that he had no choice but to use his

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  49. special ability. Most ordinary people

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  50. would call it Tinder, but Bilbo used to

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  51. like to call it his special fishing rod in

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  52. times of need. No matter how stormy the

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  53. seas, there was usually always something

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  54. tasty to be plucked out of the waters.

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  55. And boy, oh boy, Bilbo was about to catch

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  56. exactly what he wanted. First of all,

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  57. he set his maximum search distance to 500

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  58. miles, and then he set the age range

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  59. to 20 to 45. With these

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  60. search parameters in place, he started

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  61. swiping right, and within 30 minutes

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  62. he managed to match. Very special lady.

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  63. She told him she was 36 and she had

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  64. 3 very young children, and she was feeling

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  65. lonely tonight. Unfortunately, she was

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  66. about 6 hours away by train, but this

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  67. wouldn't stop Bilbo. He still wanted to

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  68. see her. He told her that he would be

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  69. willing to travel if she would want to

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  70. meet up tonight, and she said, Okay.

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  71. After 6 long hours on the train, he

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  72. finally arrived at this small, sleepy,

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  73. quiet Japanese town. She was waiting

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  74. for him at the train station. She looked

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  75. quite youthful and pretty despite her age.

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  76. Bilbo wasn't quite sure what to do now.

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  77. He was surprised that she even showed up.

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  78. He didn't have any place to go and and he

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  79. didn't have any hotel booked. So he said

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  80. to her, shall we go to a love hotel?

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  81. Now this was Bilbo's first time going to a

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  82. love hotel, so he wasn't quite sure what

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  83. to expect. She said yes, and then Bilbo

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  84. opened his Google Maps to find the closest

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  85. love hotel. Luckily, there were lots very

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  86. nearby to the station. How convenient. He

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  87. chose the cheapest one and said to her,

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  88. let's go, I found one, it's really cheap.

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  89. After walking for about 10 minutes, they

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  90. arrived at the love hotel. It was a

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  91. strange-looking building, strange design

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  92. with funny signs on the outside. It didn't

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  93. really look like a hotel, it looked more

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  94. like some kind of haunted house attraction

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  95. at a theme park. But it was getting late

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  96. and cold, and it was starting to rain even

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  97. harder. When they entered the love hotel,

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  98. there was a big display on the wall,

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  99. different rooms, and there were buttons.

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  100. Most of the rooms were occupied, so he had

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  101. to find one that was vacant, and then he

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  102. pressed a button and a tiny piece of paper

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  103. was ejected from the wall. Bilbo and his

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  104. new lady friend made their way up to the

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  105. 3rd floor and found their room for the

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  106. night. It was a strange room, not like any

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  107. hotel room Bilbo had seen before. The

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  108. inside of the room kind of looked like it

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  109. was decorated by an 80-year-old woman.

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  110. There was a strange cabinet full of little

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  111. doors, and behind each door There was a

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  112. strange-looking object, things that Bilbo

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  113. had never seen before. He sat down on the

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  114. bed next to his new lady friend. He didn't

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  115. even remember what her name was, but she

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  116. had a very strong smell of cigarettes.

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  117. She had shoulder-length straight black

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  118. hair, and when she smiled, her eyes turned

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  119. into upside-down bananas. In a way, her

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  120. face kind of reminded Bilbo of his

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  121. ex-Japanese girlfriend who also gave him

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  122. chlamydia. They didn't really say much to

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  123. each other. It was too awkward, and the

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  124. tension in the room was so thick you could

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  125. slice it with butter. Bilbo started to

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  126. undress her and pushed her down onto the

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  127. bed, and then he The

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  128. whole thing was over in only 15 minutes.

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  129. They lay next to each other, gasping for

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  130. air. Bilbo had spread his butter all over

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  131. her multigrain bread loaf. There were

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  132. breadcrumbs all over the sheets. It was a

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  133. disgusting mess, but Bilbo was satisfied

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  134. that night, and he slept well.

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  135. He slept very well. He woke up the next

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  136. morning and asked her if he could see her

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  137. again the next night, but she said no.

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  138. She said she was not impressed with

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  139. Bilbo's butter-spreading abilities, and

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  140. she told him to practice more by himself.

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  141. She said she had plans to see someone else

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  142. the next night. As you can imagine, Bilbo

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  143. was pretty disappointed. He said okay and

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  144. bid her farewell. They would never meet

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  145. ever again. Bilbo made his way home, a

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  146. long 6-hour train journey. He had a lot

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  147. of time to think to himself. He apologized

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  148. to his girlfriend and made things right

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  149. and headed straight back home into her

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  150. loving arms. She would never find out what

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  151. happened that night at the love hotel.

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