{{short description|Sex hotels; often associated with those in Japan}} {{About|the short-stay hotel popular in Japan|other uses|Love Hotel (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} [[File:Castle love hotel 2006.JPG|thumb|Love hotel in Tokyo, European castle motif]] [[File:Love hotel dsc04908.jpg|thumb|Price list at a love hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo]]
A '''love hotel''' is a type of short-stay hotel found around the world operated primarily for the purpose of allowing guests privacy for sex. The name originates from "Hotel Love" in Osaka, Japan.<ref>{{cite news|last=Slavin|first=Erik|date=25 March 2007|title=My months in a love hotel|work=Stars and Stripes|url=https://www.stripes.com/living/my-months-in-a-love-hotel-1.63008|access-date=17 January 2022}}</ref> Although love hotels exist all over the world, the term "love hotel" is often used to refer specifically to those located within Japan.
==Distinguishing characteristics== thumb|Love hotel with no windows thumb|Some love hotels have multiple complex entrances designed for the discretion of customers. thumb|Discreet room selection
Love hotels can usually be identified using symbols such as hearts and the offer of a room rate for a {{nihongo|"rest"|休憩|kyūkei}} as well as for an overnight stay.<ref name="basil">{{cite journal |title=Japanese love hotels: A photo essay | journal=Consumption Markets & Culture |volume= 10 |issue= 2 |pages= 203–221 |last=Basil |first= Michael |date=June 2007 |doi= 10.1080/10253860701256315| s2cid=145416377 }}</ref> The period of a "rest" varies, typically ranging from one to three hours. Cheaper daytime off-peak rates are common. In general, reservations are not possible, and leaving the hotel will forfeit access to the room; overnight-stay rates become available only after 22:00. These hotels may be used for prostitution, although they are sometimes used by budget-travelers sharing accommodation.
Entrances are discreet, and interaction with staff is minimized. Rooms are often selected from a panel of buttons, and the bill may be settled by pneumatic tube, vending machine, or paying an unseen staff member behind a pane of frosted glass. Parking lots will often be concealed and windows will be few, so as to maximize privacy.<ref name=nippon>{{cite news|last=Ikkyon|first=Kim|title=Japan's Affection for Love Hotels|url=https://www.nippon.com/en/views/b02701/|access-date=10 July 2015|work=Nippon.com|publisher=Nippon Communications Foundation|date=6 June 2013}}</ref>
Although cheaper hotels are often simply furnished, higher-end hotels may feature fanciful rooms decorated with anime characters, be equipped with rotating beds, ceiling mirrors, karaoke machines,<ref name="nzherald">{{Cite news |last=Wakao |first=Aiko |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10444540 |title=Developing a passion for love hotels |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=9 June 2007 |access-date=3 September 2017 |archive-date=29 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929161116/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10444540 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and unusual lighting. They may be styled similarly to dungeons or other fantasy scenes, sometimes including S&M gear.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Haggart |first=Blayne |url=https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/life/a-night-in-a-japanese-love-hotel/article25423912/ |title=A night in a Japanese love hotel |work=The Globe and Mail |location=Toronto |date=16 October 2002 |access-date=23 January 2008}}</ref>
These hotels are typically either concentrated in city districts close to stations, near highways on the city outskirts or in industrial districts. Love hotel architecture is sometimes garish, with buildings shaped like castles, boats or UFOs and lit with neon lighting.<ref name="basil" /> Some more recent love hotels are ordinary looking buildings, distinguished mainly by having small, covered or no windows.<ref name="chaplin">{{cite book |title=Japanese Love Hotels: A Cultural History |last=Chaplin |first=Sarah |year=2007 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-415-41585-3 <!-- or 0-415-48754-4 --> |page= 149 }}</ref>
==Around the world==
=== Canada === A Japanese-influenced love hotel project in Canada opened its doors in Toronto in early 2019, which was the first and only love hotel in the country to offer an authentic Japanese experience.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.narcity.com/travel/ca/torontos-japanese-love-hotel-is-the-newest-spot-with-themed-rooms/|title=Canada Now Has A Japanese Love Hotel And Every Room Has A Unique Theme|date=4 June 2019}}</ref> Due to the love hotel only being a temporary project, it has been closed down since late 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tokyolovehoteltoronto.com/|title=Tokyo Love Hotel Toronto {{!}} Canada's First and Only Authentic Love Hotel {{!}} Japanese Hotel {{!}} Toronto, Canada|website=Tokyo Love Hotel|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-10|archive-date=25 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225195712/https://www.tokyolovehoteltoronto.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
=== Hong Kong === There are three predominant chained hourly hotel groups (Victoria, Park Excellent, and Kowloon Tong) in Hong Kong since the 1990s, as the economy was booming. There were hundreds of nightclubs opening, and many of those girls offer prostitution service (both hourly, overnight),<ref>{{Cite web |first=Jason |last=Wordie |date=2015-04-25 |title=Rooms with an ooh: the history of Hong Kong's love motels |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1774209/rooms-ooh-history-hong-kongs-love-motels |access-date=2024-01-28 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}</ref> where people usually opted for the cheaper option (hourly) and that play a big role in the growing trend of hourly hotels. In the 2010s onward, hourly hotels are mainly frequented by young couples, who would not otherwise have access to a private space for intimate activities.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Chermaine |last=Lee |date=2 October 2020 |title=How Hong Kong is modernising love hotels |url=https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200930-how-hong-kong-is-modernising-love-hotels |access-date=2024-01-28 |website=BBC Worklife}}</ref>
===Japan=== The history of {{nihongo|love hotels|ラブホテル|rabu hoteru}} can be traced back to the 17th century, in the early Edo period, when establishments appearing to be inns or teahouses with particular procedures for a discreet entry or even with secret tunnels for a discreet exit were built in Edo and in Kyoto.<ref>{{Cite book |last = Ihara |first= Saikaku | title= The Life of an Amorous Man |others=Translated by Kengi Hamada |year= 1964 |publisher= Charles E. Tuttle Company |place= Rutland, Vermont |isbn= 978-0-8048-1069-2 |pages =113–114}}</ref> Modern love hotels developed from the {{nihongo|chaya|茶屋}} tea rooms used mostly by prostitutes and their clients but also by lovers.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Caballero |first1=J. A. |last2=Tsukamoto |first2=Y. |title=Tokyo Public Space Networks at the Intersection of the Commercial and the Domestic Realms: Study on Dividual Space |journal=Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering |volume=5 |issue=2 |year=2006 |pages=301-308 |doi=10.3130/jaabe.5.301|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Alexander |first1=Matthew |last2=Chen |first2=Chein Chuan |last3=Maclaren |first3=Andrew C. |last4=O'Gorman |first4=Kevin D. |title=Love motels: Oriental phenomenon or emergent sector? |url=https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/files/65097679/strathprints007726.pdf |journal=International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management |volume=22 |issue=2 |year=2010 |pages=194–208 |issn=09596119 |doi=10.1108/09596111011018188 |quote=By the early twentieth century...enshuku (one‑yen dwelling) appeared, these were the first ideal indoor facilities that couples could use for having sex.}}</ref> After World War II, the term {{nihongo3|{{lit}} "bring-along inn"|連れ込み宿|tsurekomi yado}} was adopted, originally for simple lodgings run by families with a few rooms to spare. These establishments appeared first around Ueno, Tokyo in part due to demand from Occupation forces, and boomed after 1958 when legal prostitution was abolished and the trade moved underground.
The introduction of the automobile in the 1960s brought with it the "motel" and further spread the concept. Japanese housing trends at the time were characterized by small homes with sleeping areas being used as common areas during the day and, as a result, little opportunity for parents to engage privately in intercourse. Married couples therefore, began to frequent love hotels. By 1961, there were around 2,700 {{transliteration|ja|tsurekomi}} inns in central Tokyo alone. Hotels of the time featured unusual attractions such as swings and vibrating beds. The Meguro Emperor, the first castle-style love hotel, opened in 1973 and brought in an average of approximately ¥40 million monthly.<ref name=nippon />
In 1984, the Businesses Affecting Public Morals Regulation Law placed love hotels under the jurisdiction of the police. For that reason, new hotels were built to avoid being classified as "love hotels"; the garish, over-the-top, bizarre designs and features of the past were significantly downplayed. Beginning in the 1980s, love hotels were also increasingly marketed toward women. A 2013 study showed that couples' selections of rooms at love hotels were made by women roughly 90% of the time. The Businesses Affecting Public Morals Regulation Law was amended in 2010, imposing even stricter limitations and blurring the line between regular hotels and love hotels.<ref name=nippon2>{{cite news|last1=Ikkyon|first1=Kim|title=Love Hotels Clean Up Their Image|url=https://www.nippon.com/en/views/b02702/|access-date=10 July 2015|work=Nippon.com|publisher=Nippon Communications Foundation|date=4 June 2014}}</ref> Keeping in mind legislation and a desire to seem more fashionable than competitors, an ever-changing palette of terms is used by hotel operators. Alternative names include "romance hotel", "fashion hotel", "leisure hotel", "amusement hotel", "couples hotel", and "boutique hotel".<ref name="chaplin" />
Love hotels have enough cultural significance to be added to the first edition of emojis in Unicode 6.0.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/utc#e-4B8|title=Background data for Unicode proposal|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2010-04-27|access-date=2017-11-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-3-archive.html#Japanese_Carrier|title=Unicode Technical Report#51: Unicode emoji Version 1.0|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2015-06-09|access-date=2017-11-09}}</ref>
===South Korea=== Love hotels ({{langx|ko|러브호텔}}), also known as love motels,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,266708,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031220131745/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,266708,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 December 2003 |title=World Cup: Why Some Teams Just Can't Win|date=28 June 2002 |magazine=Time |author=Enrique Zaldua|access-date=27 June 2011}}</ref> first appeared in South Korea in the mid-1980s. They were originally called "Parktel" ({{langx|ko|박텔}}). Their boom and growth was originally attributed to the 1988 Olympics which took place in Seoul.<ref name="may2005">{{Cite news |author=Choi Min-woo |author2=Nam Koong-wook |url=http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200505/17/200505172212067939900091009101.html |title=Love hotels not just for secret liaisons anymore |work=JoongAng Daily |date=18 May 2005 |access-date=24 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050519030635/http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200505/17/200505172212067939900091009101.html |archive-date=19 May 2005}}</ref> The hotels have historically been seen as seedy, with some residents speaking out against them and not wanting them within certain distances of schools and residential areas.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=1907462 |title='Love hotel' label roils residents |author=Choi Joon-ho |date=19 August 2002 |access-date=27 June 2011 |work=JoongAng Daily}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=1880642 |title=Anti-Love Hotel Campaign Spreads All Over the Country |date=5 October 2000 |access-date=27 June 2011 |work=JoongAng Daily |author=Jeon Ik-jin}}</ref> Some hotel owners have tried to remove that element from their business by upgrading, offering cleaner modern services, and removing some of the more sexual elements from their decor.<ref name="may2005" /> They are considered a taboo topic in South Korea and a photo exhibit of love motels taken by a foreigner created a controversy in 2010.<ref>{{cite news |author= Kim Seong-kon |author-link= Kim Seong-kon |date= 30 March 2010 |title= What are we trying to hide in this era? |work= The Korea Herald |url= http://www.koreaherald.com/opinion/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20090520000053 |access-date=27 June 2011 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://archive.today/20130127103207/http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20090520000053 |archive-date= January 27, 2013 }}</ref>
===Thailand=== Thailand has had love motels since 1935 and there are approximately 100 establishments in Bangkok most densely located around Ratchadaphisek Road. The government no longer issues building permits for these types of motels, but some businesses work around the laws. In addition to short-stay, the motels are also used by foreign travellers on a budget.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/investigation/176572/the-seedy-side-of-bangkok-love-motels |title=The seedy side of Bangkok's love motels |first=Maxmilian |last=Wechsler |date=2 May 2010 |access-date=27 June 2011 |work=Bangkok Post}}</ref>
===Other countries=== Similar establishments also exist in other Asian countries including for example Singapore,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.timeoutsingapore.com/aroundtown/feature/the-insider-love-hotels |title=The Insider: Love hotels |work=Time Out Singapore |date=19 January 2009 |access-date=5 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2007/08/26/culture/its-ladies-first-now-in-japanese-love-hotels/ |title=It's ladies first now in Japanese love hotels |first=Donald |last=Richie |author-link=Donald Richie |work=The Japan Times |date=26 August 2007 |access-date=5 December 2011 |archive-date=18 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018232507/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2007/08/26/culture/its-ladies-first-now-in-japanese-love-hotels/ |url-status=dead }} Review of ''Japanese Love Hotels: A Cultural History''.</ref> Taiwan<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Matthew Alexander|last2=Chien Chuan Chen|last3=Andrew MacLaren|last4=Kevin D. O'Gorman|date=2010-03-09|title=Love motels: oriental phenomenon or emergent sector?|journal=International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management|volume=22|issue=2|pages=194–208|doi=10.1108/09596111011018188|issn=0959-6119|url=https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/7726/6/strathprints007726.pdf}}</ref> and Hong Kong. India's first love hotel opened in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/09/lust-in-translation-arrival-of-the-love-hotel-divides-india|title=Lust in translation: arrival of the 'love hotel' divides India|first=Michael|last=Safi|date=9 March 2018|website=The Guardian}}</ref>
The same concept also exists in Central and South America. In Guatemala, they are called {{lang|es|autohotels}};<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.frommers.com/destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=3558&catID=3558027613 |chapter=Guatemala: Tips on Accommodations |title=Frommer's Guatemala |edition=1st |first=Eliot |last=Greenspan |publisher=Frommer's |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-470-04730-9 |access-date=11 July 2008 |archive-date=18 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218231104/http://www.frommers.com/destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=3558&catID=3558027613 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in Chile {{lang|es|motel}} or {{lang|es|hotel parejero}} ('couples' hotel'); in the Dominican Republic, {{lang|es|cabañas}}, {{lang|es|moteles}} or {{lang|es|estaderos}}; in Panama they are called {{lang|es|casas de citas}}, {{lang|es|moteles}}, {{lang|es|casas de ocasion}}, {{lang|es|push buttons}} or {{lang|es|push}} for short;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.laestrella.com.pa/amp/economia/201002/casas-citas-listas-reabrir-demandas-spac-derecho-autor|title=Casas de citas listas para reabrir, bajo demandas de la Spac por derecho de autor - Economía |website=www.laestrella.com.pa}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.escapeartist.com/blog/push-the-love-motels-of-panama/|title= The Love Motels of Panama |website= EscapeArtist.com|date=20 May 2014}}</ref> in Argentina and Uruguay, {{lang|es|albergue transitorio}} or more informally, {{lang|es|telo}}, which is {{lang|es|hotel}} in reverse. In Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Puerto Rico, they are simply called {{lang|es|motels}} (the word is exclusively used for love hotels). In Brazil {{lang|es|motels}} (approximately 5,000) are part of the urban landscape. Very popular, they are associated with erotic transgression, but also with romantic love.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Motel Brasil. Une anthropologie des love hotels|last = Souty|first = Jérôme|publisher = Riveneuve|year = 2015|isbn = 978-2-36013-335-2|location = Paris|pages = 109–140}}</ref> They usually offer protected parking and, from long before the video era, contactless check-in.
In Panama, love hotels were first opened in the 1950s. They are often (but not always) fenced with painted opaque walls and are nondescript, are arranged like large outdoor self-storage facilities, rooms have their own garage, and guests can only enter the hotel and its garages while inside a car. They are also used as regular motels. Inside the garage is the door that leads to the room, its price and a "push button" that unlocks the door of the room when pressed or "pushed".<ref>{{cite web |date=2014-02-14 |title=Panama's Push Button Motels: Push For Peace, Privacy or Pleasure |url=https://playacommunity.com/panama-articles/panama-travel/5486-panamas-push-button-motels-push-for-peace-privacy-or-pleasure.html |accessdate=2022-10-26 |publisher=Playacommunity.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.thepanamaadventure.com/2013/05/13/the-push-button/|title=The Push Button|first=Kris|last=Cunningham|date=14 May 2013}}</ref>
In Nigeria, love hotels are called ''short-time''. They are often low-budget accommodations in densely populated areas. Some other hotels offer "short-time" services unofficially.
In the United States and Canada, certain motels in low-income areas often serve similar functions as a Japanese love hotel. Colloquially known as "no-tell motels" or "hot-sheets joints", these are becoming scarce as local laws increasingly require renters' identification information to be recorded and given to law enforcement agencies. However, the US Supreme Court struck down warrantless searches of hotel records in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eff.org/document/eff-amicus-los-angeles-v-patel |title=EFF Amicus – ''Los Angeles v. Patel'' |publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation |date=30 January 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/supreme-court-strikes-down-warrantless-searches-hotel-records-reaffirms-fourth |title=Supreme Court Strikes Down Warrantless Searches of Hotel Records, Reaffirms Fourth Amendment Facial Challenges |first=Stephen |last=Stanwood |publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation |date=22 June 2015 }}</ref> In the early 21st century, various adult establishments such as strip clubs, adult arcades, and x-rated book and video stores, sometimes offer rooms with a little privacy for an hourly fee, no ID required. In Miami-Dade County, a chain of hourly-rate motels announces openly that their rooms are intended for sex, sometimes with parking in a garage with a door, with the room on top of the garage. Identification is generally required. In the Midwestern United States, a chain of short-to-overnight-stay hotels, Sybaris Pool Suites, offer only rooms with varying luxuries for couples, including swimming pools, whirlpools, saunas, and even waterfalls, along with large beds and lounging areas, and their marketing exclusively focuses on couples, never using the term "hotel", much less "love hotel".
In Oceania, New Zealand opened its first love hotel in May 2011,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/nz-s-first-love-motel-set-open-doors-4166455 |title=NZ's first love motel set to open doors |publisher=TVNZ |date=11 May 2011 |access-date=27 June 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110514170019/http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/nz-s-first-love-motel-set-open-doors-4166455 |archive-date=14 May 2011}}</ref> and Australia opened its first love hotel in August 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.smh.com.au/nsw/love-shack-where-minibreaks-last-just-an-hour-20110812-1iqwj.html |title=Love shack where mini-breaks last just an hour |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=13 August 2011 |access-date=10 January 2014}}</ref>
== Economic aspects == The annual revenue of the love hotel industry in Japan was estimated in 2009 at more than $40 billion,<ref name="CNN">{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/02/japan.love.hotels/index.html |first=Morgan |last=Neill |title=Love hotel business zooms despite downturn |publisher=CNN |date=2 July 2009 |access-date=13 May 2014}}</ref> a figure double that of Japan's anime market.
It is estimated that more than 500 million visits to Japan's 37,000<ref name="forbes"/> love hotels take place each year, which is the equivalent of around 1.4 million couples,<ref name="forbes"/> or 2% of Japan's population, visiting a love hotel each day.<ref name="chaplin"/> In recent years, the love hotel business has drawn the interest of the structured finance industry.<ref name="forbes">{{cite journal |first=Tim |last=Kelly |journal=Forbes |url=http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0605/106.html |title=Love for Sale |date=6 May 2006 |access-date=15 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121195834/http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0605/106.html |archive-date=21 November 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Several transactions have been completed where the cash flows from a number of such hotels have been securitised and sold to international investors and buy-out funds.<ref name="nzherald" /><ref>{{cite news | last = Schreiber | first = Mark | date = 18 July 2004 | url = http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20040718t3.html | title = 'Love hotels' juggle bedsheets and balance sheets | work = The Japan Times | access-date = 16 February 2007 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071017090814/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20040718t3.html | archive-date = 17 October 2007 }}</ref>
==See also== {{portal|Hotels|Sex work}} * Day room (hotel) * List of hotels * List of human habitation forms * Venereum
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
== Further reading == * {{cite book |title=Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage, and Sex in Contemporary Japan |last=Bornoff |first=Nicholas |year=1991 |publisher=Pocket Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-671-74265-2 |oclc=0671742655 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671742652 }} * {{cite book |title= Japan's Sex Trade: A Journey Through Japan's Erotic Subcultures |last=Constantine|first= Peter |year=1993 |publisher=Yenbooks |location=Tokyo |isbn=978-4-900737-00-6 |oclc=37135004}} * {{cite book |title=Sex and the Japanese: The Sensual Side of Japan |last=De Mente |first=Boye Lafayette |year=2006 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |location=Rutland, Vermont |isbn=978-0-8048-3826-9 |oclc=71239207 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwNeY1OzSaUC}} * {{cite book |title=Love Hotels: An Inside Look at Japan's Sexual Playgrounds |last=Jacob |first=Ed |year=2008 |publisher=Lulu Press |location=Raleigh, N.C. |isbn=978-1-4357-4186-7 |oclc=317291464 }} * {{cite book |last1=Keasler |first1=Misty (photographs) |author-link1=Misty Keasler|last2=Slemmons |first2=Rod |last3=Kirino |first3=Natsuo |year=2006 |author-link2=Rod Slemmons |author-link3=Natsuo Kirino |title=Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n4jGGEXockcC |location=San Francisco |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=978-0-8118-5641-6 |oclc=65197752}} * {{cite web |last=Payne |first=Peter |title=Love Hotels in Japan: Q&A |url=http://www.peterpayne.net/2013/04/love-hotels-in-japan-q.html |publisher=J-List Side Blog |date=4 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410110218/http://www.peterpayne.net/2013/04/love-hotels-in-japan-q.html |archive-date=10 April 2014}} * {{cite news |last=Takahara |first=Kanako |date=16 October 2007 |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20071016i1.html |title=No-tell love hotels cash in catering to the carnal |work=The Japan Times |agency=FYI (weekly column) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117204244/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20071016i1.html |archive-date=17 January 2008}} * {{cite book |title=ラブホテル—Satellite of LOVE |trans-title=Love Hotel: Satellite of Love |editor1-last=Tsuzuki |editor1-first=Kyoichi |others=Trans. by Alfred Birnbaum |edition=revised |year=2008 |publisher=Aspect |location=Tokyo |isbn=978-4-7572-1490-3 |oclc=228498562 |language=ja, en}} A photobook on the subject. * Souty, Jérôme. ''Motel Brasil. Une anthropologie des love hotels''. Paris: Riveneuve. {{ISBN|978-2-36013-335-2}}.
== External links == {{Commons category|Love hotels}} * [http://www.mistykeasler.com www.mistykeasler.com]—Photographs of Japanese love hotels by photographer Misty Keasler, who published a book on the subject (see the Further reading section above) * {{wikivoyage inline|Japan|Love hotels}}
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