Handy resources

While waiting for me to finish writing up all the reviews for the love hotels that I’ve visited so far, why not peruse these other links to interesting articles and guides about them?

Guides:

  • Where have all the mirrors gone? (ENG) – An article explaining why the elusive ‘dungeon theme hotel’ is so elusive, and listing a few of the nicer establishments to be found in Tokyo and Oosaka.
  • loveho.ai (JP) – A clever little guide that helps you find exactly what you want, fast.

Are you only prepard to stay at a love hotel if it contains a tanning machine? Never fear! A little knowledge of Japanese and you can use this handy tool to find somewhere that has one. A little knowledge of Japanese and you can check the features you can’t live without. Unfortunately after searching for Tokyo hotels with my favourite ‘body sonic’ to test the site, the results did not include an Ikebukuro hotel which I knew had it (Hotel Amie), so I’m not sure how comprehensive it is, however, if you’re after a quick fix and don’t want to look at hotels one by one – though in my opinion that’s half the novelty of going to those areas! – then this is probably worth your while checking out.

  • lovehomap.com (JP) – A comprehensive map charting the locations of many many love hotels in Tokyo.

While this site is in Japanese, if you know the kanji for the area you want to stay in (eg. Ikebukuro, Shinjuku), you need never worry about the location of these discreet places ever again! As it is a map, it only shows the location of the place without actual reviews, but really, you can get those elsewhere.

Non-Japanese speakers: Click on the area you want to look at first, and then click on one of the hotels listed to see it highlighted on the map. Clicking on that highlighted image will provide the address and price range of the hotel, and a link to its homepage if available. Furthermore, if you click on the button on the lower left corner of that window with the kanji 「写真」 you can see a photo of the entrance.