Auralnaut
25 augusti 2022
This was one of the weirdest stays we've ever had. The "hotel" doesn't have a check-in desk on site. You actually check in at "Hotel Empire in Shinjuku" which is a few blocks away on a different street, which is not really made clear at all when booking. Also you have to give a ¥10,000 yen deposit at check-in, which is a first for me living in Japan. My wife checked in before me and said it was a really strange experience and that she felt unsafe in the area surrounding the hotel alone as a female at night.
The hotel room itself is incredibly narrow and the walls are INCREDIBLY thin. There are doors between each room and the next, and there is a gap between those doors and the floor which is so wide that light shines through from other guests' "apartments" and that I could hear the neighboring guest cough/clear his throat quite loudly even though he wasn't doing it all that loud. It sounded like he was in our room. Despite the room being narrow, it *is* long, so it doesn't feel super tiny. There was also a loft with another bed that we didn't climb up to because the note by the ladder made it seem like a dangerous liability that somehow the guest is responsible for rather than the hotel...
As far as amentities go, however, you have a washing machine, a microwave, fridge, and a desktop PC that I guess is available to use, but we didn't turn it on.
It was definitely a weird experience in general that I wouldn't repeat.
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