CAPSULE COLLECTION
Originating from the megalopolis of 1970s Greater Tokyo, pod hotels were created to provide refuge for exhausted salarymen on the frontline of the post-war Japanese economic boom. These compact capsules, often stacked one on top of the other, offer stripped-back accommodation for the traveller – a bed and the bare (but comfortable) necessities for rest, such as a reading light, storage space and access to bathroom facilities.
The first example was the Capsule Inn in Osaka, which opened in 1979 for men only. Designed by the
