Spaceship Love Hotel, Japan

Spaceship Love Hotel is an abandoned hotel and adult entertainment venue in Japan. The hotel is three storeys tall. Bright pink and blue lights and neon strips would have illuminated the exterior of the hotel would have been. The lights have been off since the hotel closed in the mid-2000s.

If customers prefered to use the main entrance, they would pass through a Japanese-style garden on their way to the door. Here there is a statue of a “tanuki” ( 狸 ); a cartoon raccoon dog, typically a symbol of fertility. In the main lobby is a reception desk. Photos of the twenty rooms appear on the large backlit panel; vacant rooms would be illuminated.

This love hotel catered for clients who valued discretion and anonymity. The nine ground floor rooms have private garages, which lead directly into each room. A larger covered parking lot provided hidden parking for the eleven rooms on the upper floors. Vacuum tubes provided a way to send money to the main desk without any personal interaction. A customer could order hot food to the room via telephone. The food would them be delivered directly to the room via a dumb waiter hatch.

Rooms could be rented in two-hour blocks for 3200-3800 Yen at Spaceship Love Hotel. Overnight stays would have cost 6000-6500 yen.

A love hotel room for every fantasy

There are 20 rooms at Spaceship Love Hotel. Themes include;

• Medieval Theme – Features a carriage-style bed
• Airplane Cockpit Theme – Ceiling features orange lights reminiscent of a landing strip. The wall is decorated to give the impression of looking out of a cockpit while flying over a nighttime cityscape.
• Rolls Royce Theme – There is a canary-yellow Rolls Royce bed. There is also a key-shaped mirror above the bed.
• Disney Theme – The multi-coloured bed has two fake trees on either side. There is a Disney castle cartoon on the wall above the bed.
• Airport Theme – An airport image is on the hotel room wall. The moveable bed is blue, yellow and red and has sledge tracks.
• Spaceship Room – The rocket-shaped bed moves on rails. Mirrored panels make up the walls and ceiling.
• Playboy Theme – The bed looks like a roulette table. There are Playboy bunny logos on the window shutters.
• Funfair Theme – Two carousel/merry-go-round horses on rails can move around the circular bed. Scenes of fireworks and clowns decorate the walls.
• Club Tropico Theme – A tropical club theme room with a rotating bed and striped walls.
• UFO Theme – The bed looks like a UFO
• SM Room – Adult play area with various features
• Boxing Room – A mock boxing ring fills most of this room.