<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8c033ccf-6500-4944-a7aa-72b8e7ae0cc7/6CBD9B99-1672-43AE-AA37-BECA5A556CD0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html" href="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.itravelnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><H3> Staying in a Japanese Capsule Hotel</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><DIV>Capsule hotels are mainly frequented by business people staying in town overnight and people who have missed the last train home, so accommodating for bulging backpacks and unwieldy wheelie bags is not usually required.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><DIV>Upon arrival you take your shoes off, as you would in a Japanese home, and place them into a shoe locker at the front entrance. Hand the locker key to reception and once you are done with check in formalities you are given another locker key attached to a wristband. The number on your wristband is your locker number and capsule number.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.itravelnet.com/img/B22536A2-4232-4542-A9DA-55A28A8FB4FE" alt="Locker Room" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.itravelnet.com/img/D3B005F8-8DAA-43DC-B9A0-F19CE3B43E4E" alt="Capsules" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><DIV>When you are ready for bed you go to the locker room and change into your usual nightwear. If you go to bed ala naturale, you are supplied with a yukata (Japanese bathing robe). You are also supplied with a bath towel which is about the size of a tea towel. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.itravelnet.com/img/8C0E1BF9-3DAA-4096-87F9-E850515B668E" alt="Capsule Interior" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.itravelnet.com/img/B0AB07D4-478E-4C64-8408-62C17EB4DCCC" alt="Capsule TV" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.itravelnet.com/img/D7DCC0BE-6C44-466A-AA47-864CBCF764CA" alt="Bathroom" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.itravelnet.com/img/D6A162E5-90E5-4A29-8B62-4BC61F2BD59D" alt="Capsule Inn Foyer" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><DIV>- James Clark</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itravelnet.com/blog/2007/04/staying-in-japanese-capsule-hotel.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.itravelnet.com/img/45F222F0-680F-4B2A-A186-ACDC4C1CA8BF" alt="Capsule Inn Bedtime" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6CBD9B99-1672-43AE-AA37-BECA5A556CD0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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