How Small Can You Go?

     Much like my fascination with the dictionary (yes, I'm that girl, the one that reads dictionaries!), I often spend longer than necessary on the internet as I get directed from one link to another - and often not related to whatever I ever came on for, LOL.

     Anyway, during one of my sojourns into the cyber highway, I somehow stumbled onto the Impact Lab website.  It's an awesome site touching on almost anything that involves the human experience.  In any case, these caught my attention. Fancy spending time in one of these capsules for your hotel stay?

      According to Impact Lab, this is the 9h Capsule Hotel, which is a three-year design project by Design Studio S and is scheduled to be opened in Kyoto in December of this year. The nine stories tall hotel will have 125 capsules, as well as locker rooms, showers, and a lounge.

 

Each of the rooms will a panel, designed by Panasonic, which controls the lights and sound system; the alarm clock can be programmed  to wake you gently, by raising the lights. The sheets used can be found a four-star hotel.

 

     9h Hotel is not the first of Japan's capsule hotels though. Capsule Inn Osaka was opened on 1 February 1979. I dare say the capsules look like something out of an 80s (or 70s in this case) sci-flick!

 

      Heck if this angle doesn't remind me of a pound! Especially with that gate at the end!

     I rather like the American version of a mini room. This is one of the rooms in Jane Hotel, in Manhattan’s West Village.  The hotel used to be a temporary residence for sailors, quite obvious isn't it? It rather looks like a ship's bunker.

     But look at the lobby! If that doesn't remind you of old world class, I don't know what does! Wow!