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Living In Tokyo's Capsule Hotels

afabbro writes "Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 once offered a night’s refuge to salarymen who had missed the last train home. Now with Japan enduring its worst recession since World War II, it is becoming an affordable option for people with nowhere else to go. The Hotel 510’s capsules are only 6 1/2 feet long by 5 feet wide. Guests must keep possessions, like shirts and shaving cream, in lockers outside of the capsules. Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas says, 'It’s just a place to crawl into and sleep. You get used to it.'”

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  1. I don't think I would be welcome. by irright · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would get beaten to death by other patrons who didn't appreciate my revving-dirtbike-level snoring.

  2. Re:Westerners by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those who don't know, "mafia" is the italian term for yakuza or organized crime.

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  3. Re:Sounds like the Navy. by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just don't take the bottom rack. Remember folks, drunken pee flows downhill.

  4. Re:Best place to spend a few weeks. by Gothmolly · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or stay out of Japan all together. Safer, less tentacle-rapey, less schoolgirl panty sniffy, less racist, less xenophobic, etc.

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  5. Re:Westerners by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    So there is a persopn whose job it is to stop Yakuza from using these? tough gig.

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  6. Re:Remember this is by Tokyo standards by alaskana98 · · Score: 3, Funny

    However, when you're done sleeping on your rice husk pillow you can eat it for breakfast. I doubt any Kohls pillow would be as nutritious.

  7. Re:Best place to spend a few weeks. by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Safer, less tentacle-rapey, less schoolgirl panty sniffy, less racist, less xenophobic

    That's what I go to Japan for, you insensitive clod!

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  8. Ah, but I kid the politicians... by Tetsujin · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those who don't know, "politics" is the American term for yakuza or organized crime.

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  9. Re:Sounds like the Navy. by furbearntrout · · Score: 3, Funny

    An airman, a soldier, and a marine were sitting in the chow hall (it was one of those combined forces bases) griping about deployment conditions

    Airman: The Air Force is all fucked up-- last night the air conditioners went out in our tents.

    Solder: No way.

    Airman: Yep.

    Solder: You guys get AIR CONDITIONERS in your tents?

    Marine: You guys get TENTS?

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