The Love Hotel Manager
Below are a couple more pages from my new book about love hotels. Today’s excerpt is about what it’s like to be a love hotel manager. I spent years visiting love hotels around Japan, interviewing love hotel...
Read MoreBelow are a couple more pages from my new book about love hotels. Today’s excerpt is about what it’s like to be a love hotel manager. I spent years visiting love hotels around Japan, interviewing love hotel...
Read MorePosted by Ed | Last updated Jun 24, 2017 | Death, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |
A diorama of what happens to murderers and thieves in the Buddhist hell. The Izu Gokurakuen (Izu Paradise Park) is a strange attraction in a popular hot spring in the Izu peninsula, which is filled with gruesome dioramas of the...
Read MorePosted by Ed | Last updated Jun 24, 2017 | Fashion, Festivals, Street Scenes | 2 |
January 12 was sejinshiki, Japan’s Coming of Age Day. All over the country, ceremonies are held to celebrate people who turned 20 that year officially becoming adults.
Read MorePosted by Ed | Last updated Jun 24, 2017 | Architecture and interiors, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region | 0 |
Osaka Castle
Read MoreI’m pleased to announce that my book, Love Hotels: Inside Japan’s Sexual Playgrounds, is finally for sale. I spent years visiting love hotels around Japan, interviewing love hotel designers, owners and staff, and...
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