Love Hotels: An Inside Look at Japan's Sexual Playgrounds
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"This book is destined to become a classic on Japanese sexuality." - Japan Visitor

“Ed clearly has an encyclopedic knowledge of Japanese weirdness, and can now lay claim to the dubious honour of being the English speaking world’s leading authority on love hotels." - Gaijin Tonic

Japan's love hotels are kinky, high-tech sexual spaces where couples live out sexual fantasies in pirate ship rooms, playboy grottos, princesses' bed chambers, or S&M dungeons. Love Hotels takes you behind the scenes of Japan's wildest sexual spaces, with detailed descriptions of the best hotels, interviews with owners and designers, and bizarre stories of love, sex, and crime, along with the incredible history of how this fascinating institution evolved. Contains dozens of photos of the best love hotels in Japan.

Origins - From their origins as 17th century tea houses to incarnations as soba shops to the golden age  in the 1970s and 80s. Includes the bizarre story of how the New Public Morals Act, a law designed to destroy the love hotel backfired, helping love hotels to lose their sleazy reputation and greatly increase in number. 
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Behind the Scenes - Go behind the green door and meet the people that make it all happen. Owners, managers, employees and cleaners tell stories about how working in a love hotel affects their personal lives, and the crazy couples they have to deal with. They also reveal the details of the incredible costs love hotels, and the staggering profits that they can generate. Finally, you'll visit the Love Hotel fair, possibly the world's most bizarre trade show.
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The Dark Side - Tales of prostitutes, yakuza, and murder reveal the sleazy, dark side of love hotels.
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Area Guides - Detailed information about how to get to the best love hotels in major districts all over Japan - Tokyo's Love Hotel Hill, Ikebukuro, Kabuki-cho and Uguisu-dani, Osaka's Umeda, Sakuranomiya, Namba, and Uehonmachi, Nagoya, Yokohama, Kobe, Kyoto, Sapporo, and Fukuoka. Complete with addresses, phone numbers, mini-reviews, and instructions for finding them.
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Advertising and Architecture - Interviews with designers and architects, information on the latest design trends, advertising techniques, and a visit to the annual love hotel convention.

Rest or Stay - This newbie guide will tell you everything you need to know about how to select a love hotel, etiquette, and pricing, as well as tips about impressing your date and saving money by using discount plans.

Attitudes - Ever wondered why there are so many love hotels next to temples, or why no one seems to mind if one opens up beside an elementary school? With everything penis festivals to advertisements for hardcore S&M hotels in popular entertainment magazines, Japan is a lot more open about sex than most other countries in the world. You'll learn why Japanese people go to love hotels, and why they're so accepting of them. A special section on gay-friendly hotels lists places that accept same-sex couples.

Love Hotels Around the World - Love hotels aren't just in Japan. They're in Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, and even Brazil. This chapter describes how they've transformed in other countries, and has information about the best hotels in each country.

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