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Japan's hotels where your bed is a tiny capsule

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Why pay for a spacious hotel suite when you can willingly slide into a fiberglass coffin? Originally designed for drunken salarymen who missed the last train home, Japan's capsule hotels offer a bed roughly the size of a morgue drawer. It is the ultimate exercise in claustrophobic minimalism, offering a mattress, a harsh reading light, and absolutely zero personal dignity.

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