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Episode 17 of Jake versus Japan continues the journey of our heros through the region of Kansai. Everyone needs to rest sometimes and we happend to find the cheapest and most awkward place! In this episode we take a look at the Japanese Capsule Hotel. Hilarity ensues. Music in this episode: Well It's Alright, I Believe - Brian Factor
Though it may be small, its too cheap to let pass by!
Excellent elevationThe Australian... all 1m tall or part of their self-mortification was never to stand up straight: their penitential cells are reminiscent of a Japanese capsule hotel. ...
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...type of cheap accommodation option in Shanghai, although claustrophobia sufferers may find it unsuitable. The city's first capsule hotel will be opened near the north square of Shanghai Railway Station in Zhabei district this year, according to Xia Quangen,...
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People's Daily Online
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Hotel to offer tiny rooms for tiny budgetsGlobal TimesThe city's first capsule hotel will be opened near the north square of Shanghai Railway Station in Zhabei district this year, according to Xia Quangen, ...and more »
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Business Travellers to Benefit from Heathrow HotelJust the FlightYOTEL, who specialise in creating capsule hotel rooms, will provide incoming passengers with the perfect accommodation to relax from their flight before ...
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Cities Where the Dollar is WeakestBusinessWeekEven travelers pay about $50 per night to sleep in capsule hotels, where guests stay in a "room" measuring about 2 meters (6 ft., 7 in.) deep, 1 meter wide, ...and more »
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Video: The weirdest hotels in the worldGadling (blog)Then this hotel is for you! It is a Japanese capsule hotel and it has everything you need: TV, alarm clock, and radio. If the capsule hotel is not for you, ...
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Capsule Hotel Opens in Heathrow AirportTravel AgentDelta Air Lines is teaming up with capsule-hotel company YOTEL at Heathrow's Terminal 4 to offer arrivals facilities to premium passengers arriving on its ...
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ABC NewsBeijing Resident Designs First Capsule ApartmentsABC NewsMeasuring 7.9 feet long, 2.4-3 feet wide and 6.6 feet high, these "capsule apartments" are a twist on Japan's capsule hotels/ The compact housing does not ...and more »
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China's equivalent of Japanese capsule hotelsChannel News AsiaModeled after Japan's capsule hotels, his homes have sparked a controversy. Retired engineer Huang Rixin is the inventor of what's known as capsule housing ...and more »
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Japan: Prime minister quits amid opposition to US baseThe MilitantThe January 2 New York Times reported on the Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 in Tokyo. The hotel rents out plastic capsules “no larger than 6 1/2 feet long by 5 ...and more »
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Straits TimesRemedy for housing woesStraits TimesHe launched the country's first capsule hotel in March. Proving age is no barrier to entrepreneurship, the 78-year-old sank 30000 yuan (S$6000) of his own ...
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Tried a capsule hotel in Fukuoka. Not bad for 3000円!
Shinjuku Kuyakusyu Mae Capsule Hotel Tokyo
With hotel costs getting expensive, I decided staying a night in a cheap capsule hotel in Osaka wouldn't be such a bad idea... and it wasn't. It was actually a rather nice hotel for the price. Provided you don't mind sharing bathing space and don't get claustrophobic easily.
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Lincoln's birthday events planned in SpringfieldThe State Journal-RegisterLincoln Bicentennial time capsule. Lincoln Presidential Museum, 1 pm A time capsule featuring items relating to the yearlong celebration of Lincoln's 200th ...and more »
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Tatas learn to innovateBusiness StandardThe 2009 entries in this category included a proposal from Tetley to create a flavour in a pill or a capsule that could be put in any drink. ...and more »
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For a cheap and fun night in Japan, try a "Capsule Hotel"
Recap – Fringe 2.14 – JacksonvilleTVOvermindOlivia stares and the life-size time capsule from her infancy. She's not happy. Neither is Peter. Walter leads them out of the playroom into a classroom. ...and more »
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(Text from: www.ajanaku.org) I love traveling! If it is for business or for pleasure, I just cant get enough! But what makes or breaks the trip is usually the hotel I am staying in. I have had the pleasure to stay in two great hotels these past few months, citizenM and The Leela. I think I have now found the next hotel on my list, 9 hours in Japan. 9 hours is a japanese capsule hotel with a difference. The latest Monocle report takes you on a tour trough the hotel and its great communication. It reminds me a lot of the concept behind citizenM, but with a twist. They expect you to stay just 9 hours in the hotel, 1 hour to shower, 7 hours to sleep, and 1 hour to rest. 1 hour shower! THANK YOU! For images go to www.ajanaku.nl
The curious case of Big Willie MasonThe Roar (blog)Even Japanese rugby, which supposedly has the cash to consume rugby league, didn't want to scrap the Yen together to put Mason's frame in a capsule hotel. ...
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Iowa State recruiting capsuleESPN (blog)There are some individuals who treat signing day the same way they make reservations at a hotel. They act like they can cancel up to signing day with no ...and more »
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ACID TV presents: Video from Japan/Tokio 2000. Siesta Capsule Hotel in Tokio and Tottori museum history museum. Video by DVJ Mniamos. Music Acid TV Mniamos & Mikelo Hycki & Matteo Cadeddu
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Capsule hotels are almost symbolic of urban Japan: minimal to the point of austerity; bizarre to the point of alienation. Anyone who has stayed in one knows the drill; you check in usually on a floor in a multi-story building, before proceeding to your
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Trends in Japan
http://www.japantrends.com/third-spaces-capsule-hotels-and-9h/
Design Concepts: Soul-Soothing TechSwitched (blog)(We can't help but note how similar these are to the capsule hotels of Japan.) Potentially located in airports, train stations, and shopping malls, ...
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Home is a 'coffin' as Japan reels from recessionScotland on SundayAfter working odd jobs on an Isuzu assembly line, at pachinko parlours and as a security guard, the 40-year-old moved into the capsule hotel in Tokyo's ...and more »
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ultimatestartupspace.com.sg Vote for us at the Martell website!!! A Tokyo capsule hotel right in Clarke Quay. Each capsule carries a Uniquely Singaporean theme eg A380/ Singapore Flyer capsule. Automated payment via vending machines reduces labour costs as well. This hotel idea generates the best returns per square feet vs. other ideas yet provides cheap lodging for clubbers above the legal alcohol limit
World HumHappily Adrift in AirworldWorld Hum... as I usually do, I could buy a new one in Duty Free then salve my wounded pride at the airport bar and, finally, sleep it off at the new capsule hotel. ...
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Tokyo shelter for jobless closesAsiaOneHe stayed at Internet cafes and capsule hotels, his daily wage being enough to get by. However, the rapid economic downturn caused these jobs to dry up and ...and more »
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TreehuggerDaily Shelter: Kitchen Table Turns Into A FortTreehuggerHave a mattress drop down, make the sidewalls a soundproof material and it becomes an instant capsule hotel room, cosy and quiet in the middle of the ...and more »
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...mailed to. They also plan to enlist all the people who have put their memories in the Time Capsule and their recipients in the hotel’s official website. The idea is to draw people to Nepal and collect their souvenirs. But in case they are not here, the items...
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Republica
http://myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=12772
The last of my 3 act series on my Hiroshima trip. In this video I show my capsule hotel, the annual Hiroshima Food Festival 2009, and Hiroshima Castle. Photos from the video available here: www.delbertmon.com
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...taken at the foot of mount fuji amenity slippers images of the process of designing tooling prototypes japan's first capsule hotel made its appearance in osaka in 1979, and was designed by architect kisho kurokawa. - to create a link, eg: if you wish to create...
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designboom
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/8111/9-h-nine-hours-capsule-hotel-in-kyoto.html
oct 09
My capsule at the Capsule Hotel in the Akihabara district of Tokyo, complete with Sumo on the TV
WEBSITE: www.teachertube.com Japan Capsule Hotel 1
A brief tour of a Tokyo capsule hotel, with a brief overview of the different functions available to occupants. Filmed sometime in early July 2009 in Asakusa Riverside Capsule Hotel.
We're at a capsule hotel in Tokyo.
capsule hotel in shinjuku tokyo ps
www.japanretailnews.com
It looks clean, but felt disgusting. It was 3000 yen a night...and one of the nastiest places I ever stayed. (Not to mention I got yelled at by an old gai-jin lady for being too loud harharhar)
This Capsule hotel is named hotel Aldebaran and it's located in Osaka. Hotel is closed from 10AM to 4PM. Check-in starts from 4PM and Check-out is 10AM
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...capsule hotel designs are second to none in the world. Or should I ask, how many capsule hotels do we see around the world after all? Here’s one by Panasonic that reminds me of what I’ve been watching in those nightmares of the future. Minus the aliens that...
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New Launches
http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/panasonic_capsule_hotel_has_a_touch_of_the_future.php
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...the cultural differences it's still a wonder why Japanese capsule hotels haven't made their way to big U.S. cities like New York and Chicago. Perhaps a new take on the capsule hotel by Panasonic and designers Masaaki Hiromura and Takaaki Nakamura will inspire...
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Dvice
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/07/panasonic-rolls-1.php
www.vernissage.tv | At Design Miami Basel 2009 Natalie Kovacs curated a show for Carpenters Workshop Gallery entitled Never-Ever Land. Located at the Design Miami entrance, Never-Ever land presented an alternative functional sculpture garden, exploring the possibility for design to entertain, enliven and enlighten. Among the pieces on display were the Sensory Deprivation Skull by Atelier van Lieshout, the Mountain Chair by Marc Quinn, the aluminium bench Spaghetti Corten by Pablo Reinoso ...
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