The closest I’ve come to a pod hotel is some unfortunate bunks in hostels in my early 20s and the Citizen M (a.k.a. the hotel with the toilet in the middle of the room).
I want to stay in a real pod hotel soon, and Kyoto seems like the place to do it. Cabbage Rose had a write-up of 9h (a.k.a. “9 hours”) which looks well-designed, sharp, and hyper-clean. I love instruction pages (which come from the 9h website) like this:
Kyoto is on my top three list of places to see next. It might be fun to stay one night in a pod hotel and one night in a ryokan, just to see the difference.
Photos from inside 9h after the jump.
When I look at the pod from this angle, it seems like an iPad you can sleep in:
Then I look at the wall of these, and I do get a little freaked out by the coffin-like nature of them one on top of each other:
What do you think? Have you slept in a pod hotel? Liked it? Left screaming after you woke up in the middle of the night, disoriented, with the ceiling one foot above your head?
Check out the collage of photos from their site, where everything is super-pleasing. I can’t resist its Muji-like charms.
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