Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David McElhinney selfie in capsule hotel (left), pods lined up in Tokyo pod hotel (right) I stayed at Nine Hours Otemachi, a ...

Capsule hotels fascinate me. As a traveler, they combine both my biggest desires and largest fears. First, they're cheap. They typically cost the same as a hostel, but they offer the privacy most ...

A capsule hotel is a kind of urban accommodation with one-person capsules, shared washing facilities, and basic services. When you enter a capsule hotel, you remove your shoes and put them in a shoe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Zedwell capsule hotel in London's Piccadilly Circus is the largest of its kind in the world. Photograph by Zedwell This ...

Since a lot of people who work in Tokyo actually live outside the city limits, the commute times can pose a difficulty, especially if you have a tendency to stay late at the office. Sometimes it just ...

There are so many capsule hotels to choose from in Japan, but if you want to stay at one that tells you how many times you snore during the night, you’ll want to book yourself into 9 Hours Woman ...

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 ...

A picture shows sleeping pods at the new "Ostelzzz" capsule hotel in Milan (AFP) Cheap and cheerful capsule hotels are forever expanding from their Japanese cradle, including now in Milan where the ...

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 ...

After traveling for nearly 24 hours from New York City to Bangkok this month, there was nothing I wanted more than to crawl into a glorified coffin and sleep for a few hours. I had a few hours to kill ...

Schemata Architects gives it a new image and a nice sauna. Japan's capsule hotels have a bad reputation, described as "traditionally grimy, and primarily intended as expedient sleeping solutions for ...