Hotel Tiny Create Unemployment and Vagrant
Published by master at November 10th, 2009
Ever see a special hotel for the homeless?
A capsule-shaped hotel located in downtown Tokyo, and inhabited by hundreds of unemployed, homeless or also for people who do not know will go anywhere. When Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 open since two decades ago, Japan had just recovered from a tough economic pressure. For that, the hotel with a cubic size of a thin plastic is offered as a place to stay for those looking for work or who missed the last train for home.
Now Hotel Shinjuku 510 with room size ‘capsule’ is no more than 6.5 feet long and 5 feet wide, with a high roof that was not enough to stand up, has become an alternative option for some people who do not know will go anywhere, the result of economic recession, since The second World War. Many people get laid off, so it can not rent a house and eventually became homeless.
Room rents Shinjuku 510 capsule hotel was not cheap for the size of a small room, which is 59.000 yen per month or about $ 560 per room. However, with a bath and sauna are free use, clean linen, and without any cost, the price per room at least cheaper than renting an apartment in Tokto. Capsule room has no door, only the glass that can be pulled down. In fact, each capsule has only one lamp, a small TV with earphones, a thin blanket and pillow hard from rice husk. The walls are made of plastic, so when you cough or laugh out loud will be heard by neighbors.
