bucket list

When we stayed in Nara, I accidentally got to cross off something from my bucket list...staying at a love hotel or what the Japanese call "lah-boo-ho" for short...

When Satoshi saw the building, he said..."oh em gee"...

Apparently this love hotel had been changed to a business hotel, but upon looking at google maps...it was still categorized as a love hotel...

The building itself didn't look like some of the gaudy love hotels I've seen from the freeways, but the entrance is hidden off to the side and the lobby is quite dark.

To get up to the rooms, you use one elevator, to leave the building, you use a different elevator.

You almost never see anyone coming or going...

When we opened the door to the room, all these spotlights and the tv went on..

There was a huge jacuzzi style bath & shower area.

I'm not sure, but think if you order food & drinks, they pass it to you through this built in door...

Satoshi mentioned that this hotel had a meal plan, but we wondered where one would eat, as there wasn't a restaurant or cafe in the lobby...maybe that was what the built in door was for?!

Way more spacious than some of the hotels we've previously stayed at.

The sign telling you to use a different elevator to leave the building...

To get a feel of just how big this room was here is a video (the door after the silk flower arrangement is the toilet and the large blackish closet looking thingy is the bath area.)

While the interior of this place was overly bright with the spotlights and a bit gaudy, I appreciated the space, two televisions & two sinks.

Smoking was still a bother, but at least it wasn't coming through the walls.

Probably not an authentic lah-boo-ho experience, but it was just enough for me to cross off my bucket list.