This is where I play wow on company time from
Missed your last train in Europe or America?
Your options are a $250 last-minute hotel room or sleeping on an airport bench clutching your backpack.
In Japan, you look for a modern manga internet cafe and rent a private keycard-locked suite.
For twenty dollars, you unlock a solid soundproof wooden door.
Inside is your own private micro-hotel room.
A thick, reclining leather sofa-bed that lays completely flat.
A massive dual-monitor computer setup with high-speed internet and cinema channels.
Soft ambient lighting, individual air conditioning controls, and quiet slippers.
You walk out to the shared lounge:
Fifty varieties of free soft drinks, espresso machines, and unlimited soft-serve vanilla ice cream dispensers.
A library of thirty thousand graphic novels.
Spotless private shower suites with hot water, fresh towels, shampoo, and hair dryers.
Lock your door, turn off the lights, stretch out on the padded floor, and sleep like a baby.
No noisy hostel roommates stealing your charger.
No sketchy hostel lobbies.
Just a safe, hyper-clean private sanctuary available on every major street corner twenty-four hours a day.