I spent a night in a capsule hotel in Japan. It was cheap, but it was also some of the worst sleep I had on my 14-day trip. Capsule hotels originated in Japan, so I insisted on staying in one on my ...

I stayed at Nine Hours Otemachi, a capsule hotel in central Tokyo. One night cost me $26. The hotel was separated by gender, and the pods looked like something out of a sci-fi movie. The accommodation ...

Experience the ultimate capsule hotel adventure in Kyoto with our in-depth tour of The Millennials. Discover its ...

TOKYO – Tokyo is known for being densely populated and crowded. Living space is at a premium; hotel rooms are small or expensive or both. Enter the capsule hotel, where a tube-like pod barely bigger ...

Do you ever walk into a hotel room and notice something immediately wrong? Maybe the sheets are still dirty. Or there are double beds instead of a king. Or the room is too big. Maybe you just long for ...

Maybe you are going to Japan. Maybe you’re not, but one day, you hope to. There is an array of options—from fancy hotels and traditional inns to more budget-priced lodging. Or, perhaps, you just ...

We've looked at some radical ideas for hotels in the past, including Russia's Ark Hotel, Mexico's Tubohotel and Sweden's Treehotel. Perhaps it is the Japanese "capsule hotels," however, that most ...

If you've never stayed in a capsule hotel, the idea of your room being a human-sized tube may seem strange, and maybe even ...

OSAKA, Japan - I checked myself into the hotel on one of Osaka's typically muggy late-summer afternoons. I went to my room, which contained the standard bed, television and clock radio, and when it ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The first capsule hotel in the world opened in Osaka, Japan in 1979. Since then, capsule hotels have not only spread to across the country but around ...

Yotel brings 'capsul hotel' to New York City. June 23, 2011— -- If your mental image of a Japanese capsule hotel is a wall of 'people drawers' -- a scene somewhat reminiscent of a morgue -- then ...