Spaceship Love Hotel in Japan
Spaceship Love Hotel is an abandoned hotel and adult entertainment venue in Japan. The hotel is three storeys tall. Bright pink and blue lights and neon strips would have illuminated the exterior of the hotel. The lights have been off since the hotel closed in the mid-2000s.
If customers prefered to use the main entrance, they would pass through a Japanese-style garden on their way to the door. Here there is a statue of a “tanuki” ( 狸 ); a cartoon raccoon dog, typically a symbol of fertility. In the main lobby is a reception desk. Photos of the twenty rooms appear on the large backlit panel; vacant rooms would be illuminated.
This love hotel catered for clients who valued discretion and anonymity. The nine ground floor rooms have private garages, which lead directly into each room. A larger covered parking lot provided hidden parking for the eleven rooms on the upper floors. Vacuum tubes provided a way to send money to the main desk without any personal interaction. A customer could order hot food to the room via telephone. The food would them be delivered directly to the room via a dumb waiter hatch.
Rooms could be rented in two-hour blocks for 3200-3800 Yen at Spaceship Love Hotel. Overnight stays would have cost 6000-6500 yen.
