Comments on: The death of Nakagin, the world’s first capsule hotel.

By: dany

dany — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:11:08 +0000

I would like to know the price / room for this capsule rooms

thank you

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:54:12 +0000

This is rather late but the architect who destined this building is trying to get the money together to move it, and preserve it has “a ideal bubble living” there was a program on one of the English broadcasting Japanese stations that I get in US about it.

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ÐŸÐ¾Ñ‚Ñ‚ÐµÑ€ — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:40:42 +0000

In English from Google- It for long searched for this [temku] so that so all competently there would be, thanks.

By: MJG

MJG — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:03:47 +0000

Thanks 2nihon, and I hadn’t noticed asiarooms’ apology for their inability to book rooms- good spot. I guess they keep it on the site because it drives some traffic to them; was the best and first image for the Sofitel on Google.

By: 2nihon

2nihon — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:12:42 +0000

Good article. The Sofitel building looks cool too. I noted with a smile their note that asiarooms can’t make reservations…wonder why?

By: MJG

MJG — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:41:31 +0000

Jason- I don’t think the problem is that it needs to be relocated- rather that it’s a hazard as it’s well past its replace-by-date, but seemingly there’s no demand for it to be replaced, so it’s just going to die off. As for truly modular or not- the capsules are modular, but the spine they’re attached to is fixed in place with poured concrete.

japanese eye- It’s funny you should mention the Sofitel- I was in Ueno Park just this past weekend, looking for it on the sky-line. It could well have been next in this series. I can’t understand why they’d tear it down, it was a pretty amazing looking building, and apparently they had just refurbished it in 2000. Crazy Tokyo. Here’s an old picture for anyone interested, from asiarooms.com :

jd- Spartan yes, it’s the whole minimalist function over form deal. I suppose though anyone living in one of them would probably fill it up with their own clutter- you can actually see some of it in the windows in the close-up shot.