A Tokyo hotel for bookworms
TOKYO:
A hotel in Japan is defying the digital books trend and appealing to guests who
prefer to curl up with a traditional paper book.
Book
and Bed Tokyo, a variation of Japan's famous capsule hotels, offers guests a
closet-sized bunk embedded in rows of bookshelves.
The
walls, ceiling and most of the decor of the hotel are packed with 3,200 books
in different languages.
A
common room serves as a lounge for day visitors who can also come to share the
experience of reading books together.
"There
are many visitors staying in one big space, so we can communicate and feel
relaxed," said student Natsuki Suno, who was taking a break from her
studies.
The
hotel, which opened 18 months ago, has 60 cube rooms equipped with a mattress
and reading lamp.
Depending
on the room, overnight rates range from 3,800 yen (US$33) to 4,800 yen ($42).
Daytime visitors can lounge in cushioned corners of the hotel for 500 yen an
hour.
Kei
Asai, chief executive of Book and Bed, said he wanted to offer something beyond
the traditional capsule hotel.
"The
reason why I came up with this concept was that I wanted to stay in this kind
of hotel where you can fall asleep while enjoying something fun," he said.
($1
= 112.7000 yen)
Source | http://www.channelnewsasia.com/
Regards
Pralhad
Jadhav
Senior
Manager @ Library
Khaitan & Co
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