Remembering Important Tokyo Landmarks - such as Love Hotels

[DireWolf98]

As I prepare for my next business trip to Tokyo, I find myself mentally retracing my wanderings from years past. Some of that exploring was in pursuit of Our Hobby (il passatempo preferito nostro; la cosa nostra) and some of it involved soaking-in the scenery while traveling on my appointed errands.

Today, I remembered a Love Hotel that I used to pass onto the way my first language school in Tokyo. It's exterior was memorable, especially considering that Akasaka isn't crammed with Love Hotels. It's been decades since I walked past it, but it popped into my thoughts and I felt confident that I could find it.

So, I turned to the magic of Google Maps and Boom! I found it (it's as if I were guided by the hand of of the god Eros):

https://www.google.com/maps/place/ホ...96e02bb1ad!8m2!3d35.671063!4d139.737725?hl=en

I read the name in the photos and found it on various websites:

http://www.hotel-guide.jp/shop/syanty-akasaka/
http://happyhotel.jp/detail/detail_top.jsp?id=543309&Over18

It's seems pricey, but one interesting thing about this hotel is that some rooms have Soapmats (ソープマット)

I have to wonder how many Love Hotels in Tokyo have ソープマット?

 

[User#8628]

As I prepare for my next business trip to Tokyo, I find myself mentally retracing my wanderings from years past. Some of that exploring was in pursuit of Our Hobby (il passatempo preferito nostro; la cosa nostra) and some of it involved soaking-in the scenery while traveling on my appointed errands.

Today, I remembered a Love Hotel that I used to pass onto the way my first language school in Tokyo. It's exterior was memorable, especially considering that Akasaka isn't crammed with Love Hotels. It's been decades since I walked past it, but it popped into my thoughts and I felt confident that I could find it.

So, I turned to the magic of Google Maps and Boom! I found it (it's as if I were guided by the hand of of the god Eros):

https://www.google.com/maps/place/ホテル+シャンティ赤坂/@35.671063,139.7355363,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x60188b86b828196d:0x8b87a596e02bb1ad!8m2!3d35.671063!4d139.737725?hl=en

I read the name in the photos and found it on various websites:

http://www.hotel-guide.jp/shop/syanty-akasaka/
http://happyhotel.jp/detail/detail_top.jsp?id=543309&Over18

It's seems pricey, but one interesting thing about this hotel is that some rooms have Soapmats (ソープマット)

I have to wonder how many Love Hotels in Tokyo have ソープマット?

I know that one! I think they are pricey because they are about the only love hotel in the area... rooms are nice but a bit small and if they are full there is no plan B close to there.

Serveral of the hotels of the JHK group (pasha, an, foshion, perrier and so on) have soap mats, but not in all the rooms.

Hotel excellent is budget and also has rooms with mats if i'm right.

The mats in the hotels in Tokyo are always quite small, not the real soapland thing.

 

[ShowaJidai]

FYI - that place was basically abandonded for years (not actually abandonded but out of business) because of a suicide which happened there. I don't thrnk it has been back im business for more than a year - maybe less.