{"id":132521,"date":"2010-01-03T17:47:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"1649 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-01-03T17:47:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T22:47:16","slug":"the-hotel-royal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/132521","title":{"rendered":"The Hotel Royal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/asia\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/asia\">Asia<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/architectural-oddities\/incredible-ruins\">Incredible Ruins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hotel Royal haikyo (a Japanese word for ruin) in Kanagawa is the grand-daddy of all love hotels, streaking 7 empty stories up into the big blue sky, a giant vermillion flag on the banks of Sagamiko Lake calling out to all and sundry in a mega-watt alto &#8211; &#8220;Need some discreet time alone with your loved one? Come on down!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ruined hotel has 7 floors with around 35 rooms of varying sizes, all of them decorated in a unique manner- some of them a bit wacky, most fairly plain. It`s in a quiet area, on a road far from the nearest train station, overlooking a peaceful lake.<\/p>\n<p>So who was the target audience? Young people looking to sow their wild oats in private would unlikely have access to a car, so we can rule most of them out. Couples trying to get away from the kids would be going out of their way to come here, so why not then have a properly classy time in a ryokan, where they could still do any of the deeds a love hotel is famous for. That leaves a third class &#8211; married men and women on surreptitious affairs, looking for an out of the way place where they wouldn&#8217;t be seen conducting their illicit liaisons. <\/p>\n<p>However, obviously not enough of these wayward husbands and wives came to this love hotel as it now stands in ruins.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Japanese Haikyo expert and explorer Michael John Grist. More about this place and other Haikyo can be found on his site here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/royalhotel2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Asia | Incredible Ruins The Hotel Royal haikyo (a Japanese word for ruin) in Kanagawa is the grand-daddy of all love hotels, streaking 7 empty stories up into the big blue sky, a giant vermillion flag on the banks of Sagamiko Lake calling out to all and sundry in a mega-watt alto &#8211; &#8220;Need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}