A chain of hostels in Tokyo offers its guests bunks on bookshelves, to the delight of travelling bookworms everywhere.
The books are in Japanese and English, as the hostels accommodate both local and foreign guests.
Bunks are narrow niches about 2 meters (7 feet) long and 1 meter (3.3 feet) wide, made behind the bookshelves.
The managers of the hostel chain believe that their project is a good alternative to traditional hostels and capsule hotels.
Japanese cities are famous for their high real estate prices and population density. The country is the motherland of so-called ‘capsule hotels’ intended to provide cheap, basic overnight accommodation. Such hotels feature a large number of extremely small ‘rooms’ (capsules) where a person can’t even stand upright.
