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Japanese Love Hotels

Love hotels represent a signiﬁcant aspect of contemporary Japanese culture, yet,

until now, there has been surprisingly little written about them. In this book

architect and cultural theorist Sarah Chaplin presents a cultural history of Japan-

ese love hotels, charting the development of the urban love hotel from the late

1950s to the present day, and relating its cultural history to other spaces and

earlier forms associated with sexuality, commerce and leisure. The love hotel is

characterised as a barometer of social and cultural change in Japan’s long post-

war period, mirroring economic and psychological ﬂuctuations, while challeng-

ing behavioural norms and domestic identities. Based on ﬁeldwork covering

more than 300 urban love hotels, this compelling study analyses in turn their

urban context, their architectural form, their richly wrought interiors, their

names and thematic contents, and their emerging status as a cultural industry.

Chaplin employs a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on ideas from archi-

tecture, anthropology, aesthetics, critical theory, urban design, feminism, lin-

guistics and sociology. Accessible and engaging, this book will appeal to all

those who have ever stayed in a love hotel, but will be of particular interest to a

wide range of readers who share a common interest in popular culture, semi-

ology and cultural history.

Sarah Chaplin is Professor of Architecture and Spatial Culture and Head of

Architecture and Landscape at Kingston University, UK.

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