While their Disney-like appearance might seem trivial, love hotels unassumingly disclose deeper Japanese cultural fascinations and historical influences. Recurring nautical themes, such as boat ...

A Shinji Somai contribution to a narrow soft-core subgenre crushes together the anonymity and violence, desire and trauma, ...

Some Japanese love motels are widely known for their extravagant, and sometimes outlandish decorations, especially those with spaceship, anime or wonderland themes. The rooms of the love motel ...