{"id":304,"date":"2015-07-11T20:49:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T03:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornas.wpengine.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2015-07-11T20:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T03:49:51","slug":"living-in-a-capsule-hotel-privacy-burrow-box-whatever-you-call-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorennason.com\/2015\/07\/living-in-a-capsule-hotel-privacy-burrow-box-whatever-you-call-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in a Capsule Hotel | Privacy Burrow | Box | Whatever You Call It"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across this photo gallery by Won Kim of Tokyo residents living in what he describes as a downscale Capsule Hotel. Won Kim – Enclosed:Living Small<\/a><\/p>\n

The Japanese are well-known for making efficient use of small living areas, a necessity of their high population density. I myself often find the womb-like qualities of these spaces comforting, not confining. This feeling is what led me to the subject of these portraits, which show the residents of what is best described as a guesthouse for backpackers in Tokyo. The facility is a sort of downscale version of the well-known \u201ccapsule hotels\u201d often used by Japanese businessmen for short-term stays.<\/em><\/p>\n

One of several such facilities in the city, this diminutive, bare-bones hotel takes up one floor of an office building. It is composed of a few hallways, along which the proprietor has built tiny living compartments, perhaps no larger than XX x XX feet, none with enough headroom to stand up straight inside. Separated only by unfinished plywood, the spaces have no windows or door, only a curtain at the entrance for privacy.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t