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$18 Japanese Capsule Hotel [O8BdpGsMwoY]

2019-10-06 · 11 min

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

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  2. Uh, one night. Okay, one night.

    Segment details0:31–0:32 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_1
  3. And okay, thank you.

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

    Segment details0:41–0:44 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_3
  5. travel? Uh, yes, travel. Can I make a

    Segment details0:44–0:48 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_4
  6. copy?

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  7. Thank you. Thank you.

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  8. Do you prefer lower bed or the upper bed?

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  9. Um, lower. Okay, thank you.

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  10. Could you sign your name here?

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  11. So for tonight, do you want to pay by cash

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  12. or card? Um, cash please.

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  13. So the bridge will be first ¥3,056.

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  14. Thank you very much.

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  15. Thank you.

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  16. Is this your first time in Niseiwa Capsule

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

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  18. for entrance. For you guys, your sleep pod

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  19. and locker number. Inside the locker

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  20. there's a amenity bag, so when you check

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  21. out tomorrow, just return us amenity bag,

    Segment details2:15–2:17 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_20
  22. slipper, key card here. Okay, thank you

    Segment details2:17–2:19 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_21
  23. very much. Thank you. Uh, is it this way?

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  24. This way, yes. Thanks.

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  25. Very fancy.

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  26. So nice.

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  27. Which way

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  28. Why is

    Segment details3:10–3:18 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_27
  29. there a naked guy?

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  30. Very confusing.

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  31. Which number? 49. So I should

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  32. be here.

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  33. Someone's snoring.

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

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  35. Oh, I can smell my feet from here.

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  36. This is so weird.

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  37. This is so weird.

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  38. It's a pretty basic capsule hotel.

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  39. There's a light switch and

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  40. a USB port and

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  41. some kind of plug socket. That's it,

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  42. there's nothing else.

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  43. You get a little shelf.

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  44. I guess it's okay.

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  45. So that was my capsule hotel. I wanted to

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  46. make a video in there, but it was just so

    Segment details8:24–8:25 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_45
  47. quiet that it was too embarrassing to

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  48. speak. Everyone would be able to hear me.

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  49. There was some bloody guy snoring the

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  50. whole time as well, which was very

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  51. irritating. So annoying because most of

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  52. the capsules were empty and they put

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  53. everyone bunched together next to each

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  54. other when they could have spaced us out a

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  55. little bit. It seems like a nice capsule

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  56. hotel. It's very clean, very modern

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  57. looking. Looks quite new as well.

    Segment details8:48–8:50 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_56
  58. It's just weird. It was 5 PM in the

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  59. afternoon and that guy was snoring for

    Segment details8:54–8:56 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_58
  60. about 2 hours. Who comes to Japan and then

    Segment details8:56–8:59 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_59
  61. just ends up sleeping all day long

    Segment details8:59–9:00 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_60
  62. snoring? And there was this other guy

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  63. sneezing. That's the annoying thing about

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  64. capsule hotels. You're so close to

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  65. everyone else, you can hear everything.

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  66. You can hear the snoring, the coughing,

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  67. the sneezing, any movement they make,

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

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  69. I decided to go for a capsule hotel was

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

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  71. to move into this guest house, but the

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  72. stupid manager hasn't replied. I'm

    Segment details9:24–9:26 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_71
  73. guessing it's because it's Sunday today.

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  74. Maybe he doesn't check his email on

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  75. Sunday. So I decided to spend

    Segment details9:31–9:36 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_74
  76. tonight at that capsule hotel. Hopefully

    Segment details9:36–9:38 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_75
  77. tomorrow I'll be able to move into the

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  78. guest house. I can't really afford to keep

    Segment details9:42–9:44 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_77
  79. staying at Airbnbs, and I think the guest

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  80. house would be nice because I can meet

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  81. people as well.

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  82. I don't know why they like spraying the

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  83. ground with water in Japan.

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  84. A lot of people just sitting around.

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  85. I'm in Namba. It's quite

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  86. nice, quite a relaxed

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  87. atmosphere.

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  88. Lots of places to eat. Maybe I'll get

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  89. something to eat and then head back to the

    Segment details10:26–10:29 · rev_5aebb90a26a129c9ca86be6526cf365a_88
  90. capsule hotel. Hopefully it won't be more—

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  91. hopefully there won't be more snoring

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  92. during the night.

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